fell stroke
Example Sentences
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And then – boom! – with one fell stroke of an adapter’s arbitrariness, Mr. Kelly altered the play’s ending in a way that crudely shrinks and simplifies its intentions.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2010
By one fell stroke he was put in second place, a man who had to await the return of Palmer—and that in his own church, so to speak.
From Twelve Men by Dreiser, Theodore
Now, at one fell stroke, his villainy lay exposed.
From Five Thousand Dollars Reward by Pinkerton, A. Frank [pseud.]
James had been so well-behaved that morning it was only logical for her to anticipate that he was about to abolish at one fell stroke all his hard-earned merits.
From The Place of Honeymoons by Keller, Arthur Ignatius
The bank broke, and in one fell stroke he lost all the savings of a life.
From A Sweet Girl Graduate by Meade, L. T.
