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Meanings of coup-de-grace in English
Death blow.
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Examples for "coup de grâce"
Examples for "coup de grâce"
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The West Ridge was an incredible climb- arealcoup de grâce.
2
Or should I use his bayonet to give him the coup de grâce?
3
In the meantime, I devised the coup de grâce of our evil plan.
4
Will you give him the coup de grâce, or keep him in your cage?
5
It was just four days after Carey's coup de grâce in the All-Ireland hurling final.
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This was a death blow to all my hopes and pleasant plans.
2
The old woman got her death blow when Robin's corpse was found.
3
To think that thy puny hand should give Higbald his death blow!
4
But the Wilhelm II apparently had not received her death blow.
5
This seemed to be a death blow to the dwarf theory.
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But he pressed, expecting every instant the finishing blow on his head.
2
Then Eph spun around, looking to Setrakian to administer the finishing blow.
3
At this Yudhishthira abstained from giving his foe the finishing blow.
4
Her heart was previously affected, and physical exhaustion has dealt the finishing blow.
5
She thought she would give him a finishing blow or two.
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He wouldn't get a quick- killing blow, not one to the sweet triangle.
2
Then Uther lifted the hammer again, ready to deal the killing blow.
3
He managed to lift his sword high enough to halt a killing blow.
4
The bout should have been over at the moment of that killing blow.
5
Kiska could sense Hattar at her back eagerly tensed for the killing blow.
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She wasn't so much in love with me as she was a good fight and my finishing move, the step-over-toe-hold.
2
In the second round, and against an able-bodied opponent, replicating that same finishing move of her fighting idol, UFC trailblazer Ronda Rousey.
3
EBONY.com (kid 1): So Naomi, do you have a finishing move because I noticed you beat one of the twins with a crossbody.
4
When they get weak, they flash, and you can get in close to initiate a special finishing move, a "glory kill," that restores your health.
5
Like many companies, Professional Finishing moved into robotics as a matter of economics.
Usage of coup-de-grace in English
1
Before he can deliver the coup-de-grace, however, I conveniently decide it's time for lunch.
2
Hostilities were resumed and the coup-de-grace was given to Mexico on the historic hill of Chapultepec.
3
Will England also have received her coup-de-grace?
4
We need to finish that off, or leave it open for the major media to deliver the coup-de-grace.
5
The time was ripe for the coup-de-grace soon to be delivered by Americans co-operating with the Allies on a seventy-one mile front.
6
The Frenchman surges to a 3-1 lead and then follows that up with his coup-de-grace: a double fault.
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For a quarter of an hour he had been making efforts to wriggle himself free from his bulky shoulder-pack without exposing himself to a coup-de-grace.
Translations for coup-de-grace
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Coup-de-grace through the time