decisive stroke
Example Sentences
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The last one came from a delicate chip out of a hole in the rough to 3 feet that wound up being the decisive stroke in the U.S.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 18, 2012
From here the Red Army made a decisive stroke at the enemy.
From Time Magazine Archive
He does not smoke or chew tobacco, and he eats the meat only of an animal that has been slain with one decisive stroke.
From Time Magazine Archive
Or was he aiming at Berlin's encirclement or seizure as a swift, possibly decisive stroke?
From Time Magazine Archive
Mademoiselle Thirion's act was, therefore, a decisive stroke, intended by her to force the others into becoming, openly, the accomplices of her hatred.
From Vendetta by Katharine Prescott Wormeley
