finishing blow

Example Sentences

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Then, just like the night before, Megan Grant delivered the finishing blow — a two-run triple that slammed high off the center-field wall, narrowly missing a three-run homer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2025

It has been wasting away for years now, and this month’s midterm results are the finishing blow.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

What the Vikings really missed, however, was that one finishing blow that has been so darn elusive for much of the season.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2021

It wasn’t enough, though, because the White Sox beat the Yankees at their own game: Jose Abreu, Eloy Jimenez and Seby Zavala went deep off starter Andrew Heaney before Anderson’s finishing blow.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2021

She had only 30,000 troops in the allied army under Wellington, which delivered the finishing blow to Napoleon.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume I (of 8) Introductions; Special Articles; Causes of War; Diplomatic and State Papers by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)