crowning blow
Example Sentences
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As a crowning blow, my “good” ear on the left had also been damaged.
From Slate ● Oct. 13, 2021
Then he belted a three-run homer that was the crowning blow on a miserable night for the Yankees.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2015
Stephen Drew delivered the crowning blow, a two-run homer.
From New York Times ● Jul. 26, 2015
The crowning blow came in the fall of 1988, when Shearson lost the $25 billion buyout battle for RJR Nabisco, the largest takeover fight in history.
From Time Magazine Archive
The knowledge that, in Smike, he had been persecuting his own son was the crowning blow for cruel Ralph Nickleby.
From Tales from Dickens by Rives, Hallie Erminie
