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Examples for "coup-de-grace "
Examples for "coup-de-grace "
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.
1 The West Ridge was an incredible climb- a real coup 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.
1 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.
1 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 .
1 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.
1 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.
6 We were about to give the finishing blow to England.
7 She thought she would give a finishing blow or two.
8 The metal cart delivered the finishing blow , a hard right straight to my temple.
9 It was a finishing blow to his hopes, already so much impaired by secret distrust.
10 That had looked like a finishing blow to me.
11 This was the finishing blow to the ambitious and restless spirit of the Duke of Savoy.
12 This put the finishing blow to Mr Trevannion.
13 The Pelaulau Ditch was the finishing blow .
14 This seemed to be the finishing blow .
15 And launching among her set these Birds whose glory will be the finishing blow to the glory of Chantecler.
16 That was the finishing blow .
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This collocation consists of: Translations for finishing blow