knockdown
Example Sentences
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The risk of shooting so tight is that if there is a knockdown you will likely miss the picture.
From BBC
The referee stopped the contest after the fourth knockdown and a jubilant Williamson claimed Simpson's belts.
From BBC
Morgan to buy it by offering a knockdown price and guaranteeing Bear Stearns’s shakiest assets.
From Literature
Wilder dropped his fellow American in the second round, scored another knockdown in the sixth, and closed the show with two chopping right hands a round later, prompting the referee to wave it off.
From BBC
And so it proved as he reacted swiftly and to deadly effect to sweep home Jacob Murphy's knockdown.
From BBC
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