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

To how many a subsequent collection would such a step have been the deathblow or rather an insuperable bar!

From The Book-Collector A General Survey of the Pursuit and of those who have engaged in it at Home and Abroad from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Hazlitt, William Carew