The blow that kills (usually mercifully)
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Examples for "coup de grace "
1 Broncos centre Ward delivered the coup de grace seven minutes after half-time.
2 For the coup de grace , Becker's unionized workers were ordered to strike.
3 Now, word was out that Descartes had applied the coup de grace .
4 She clinched the deal she had contrived, with a coup de grace .
5 But the shuttle trade's coup de grace may well be EU enlargement.
1 It feels like a deathblow to having my say in SA's future.
2 Then, as now, doomsayers foresaw a deathblow to the UN climate negotiations.
3 The deathblow had struck him, but he must die on his feet.
4 Put foes in slo-mo while you spin around to deal a deathblow .
5 But that stroke from the shark's tail could have been his deathblow .
6 That terrible morning gave the deathblow to the mighty monarchy of the Bourbons.
7 Monarchy, aristocracy, and Federalism, it was said, had received a deathblow .
8 Finally, he sensed her whole body change, and she coiled for the final deathblow .
9 Whatever it was, the tsunami was only the final deathblow .
10 Hurry is the deathblow to calmness, to dignity, to poise.
11 Kant's theory that we can know nothing beyond ourselves gave the deathblow to philosophy.
12 She had delivered the deathblow , crashing the sled into the creature, breaking its back.
13 Strike such a deathblow to her loving heart as Claudia had stricken to his?
14 The first cut with the sword had utterly disabled it; the second was its deathblow .
15 It's the same one he uses to approach wounded animals before he delivers a deathblow .
16 The voice holds the almost indifferent calm of an assassin ready to deliver the deathblow .
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