coup de grace
Example Sentences
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After gradually eliminating his cut-swing problems over the last few weeks, Sunday’s four-hit performance felt like Freeman’s coup de grâce.
From Los Angeles Times • May 12, 2025
The Toranaga of decades past wasn’t fit to deliver the coup de grâce to the rebel lord, and the Toranaga of today refuses to do the same to his country.
From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2024
Having marched down the field inexorably, the final coup de grâce, if not inevitable, is less surprising than an EPL goal.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 15, 2023
But the coup de grâce of Wednesday’s great public truthout was U.S.
From Slate • Aug. 26, 2021
Soon the LEP would have no option but to launch their bio-bomb, and that was when Artemis Fowl would unveil his coup de grâce.
From "Artemis Fowl" by Eoin Colfer
