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 β Aug. 2, 2010
Something worse than eating with his knife must ostracize a man, and something no greater than spitting on the sidewalk should accomplish the feat at one fell stroke.
From Etiquette by Agnes H. Morton
Not even physicians were spared; and those who escaped trembled in anticipation of the fell stroke.
From Beulah by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Here was all the solid foundation knocked from under him at one fell stroke, as if by a cannon.
From The "Genius" by Theodore Dreiser
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 Percival Lowell
