coup de grace
Example Sentences
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Esmee Brugts opened the scoring in the second minute, with Kika Nazareth extending the lead before Putellas got her name on the scoreboard before Caroline Graham Hansen's coup de grace on the whistle.
From Barron's • Oct. 15, 2025
And then Walz delivered the coup de grace by bringing up the absence of Mike Pence:
From Salon • Oct. 2, 2024
The coup de grace came with Tennessee trying to carve into a 69-64 deficit.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 31, 2024
The coup de grace came from Brook, who had a poor T20 World Cup and, with only one Test cap to his name, could easily have been moved aside to accommodate England's spin-bowling all-rounders.
From BBC • Dec. 1, 2022
Everybody was waiting for the coup de grace, like the people at a Roman amphitheatre or at a Spanish bull-fight and everybody was sure that Lancelot would give in.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
