deathblow

Example Sentences

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The Wildlife Trusts said the decision was a "deathblow" for wildlife.

From BBC • Jan. 18, 2024

Or that Nike’s closure isn’t a deathblow, just as Banana Republic, Gap and Macy’s departing didn’t end retail downtown.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2023

Meleager, whose spear provides the final deathblow, has been moved from the left side of the marble composition to a central position in the painting.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 6, 2021

Calpers has total assets of $290 billion, so an unpaid bill of $1.6 million would hardly be a deathblow.

From New York Times • Oct. 9, 2016

These mortifying restrictions are, for all those who respect them, a deathblow to the most entertaining, perhaps the most instructive, part of what the memoir-writer has to tell.

From Memoirs of Life and Literature by Mallock, W. H. (William Hurrell)