fell stroke
Example Sentences
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And then – boom! – with one fell stroke of an adapter’s arbitrariness, Mr. Kelly altered the play’s ending in a way that crudely shrinks and simplifies its intentions.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2010
The bank broke, and in one fell stroke he lost all the savings of a life.
From A Sweet Girl Graduate by Meade, L. T.
See all the artifice of civilisation swept away at one fell stroke, and behold your gentleman, transformed in an instant into a beast, with all a beast's primeval qualities.
From A Spinner in the Sun by Reed, Myrtle
Now, at one fell stroke, his villainy lay exposed.
From Five Thousand Dollars Reward by Pinkerton, A. Frank [pseud.]
By one fell stroke there was no longer either end in sight nor visible means of reaching it.
From Noto: an Unexplained Corner of Japan by Lowell, Percival
