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
In short, he had formed the stupendous ambition of becoming, at one fell stroke, a renowned ethnologist!
From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.
By one fell stroke the might of Persia has been laid low at Salamis.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 1 by Runkle, Lucia Isabella Gilbert
Here was all the solid foundation knocked from under him at one fell stroke, as if by a cannon.
From The "Genius" by Dreiser, Theodore
