finishing blow

Example Sentences

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Then, just like the night before, Megan Grant delivered the finishing blow — a two-run triple that slammed high off the center-field wall, narrowly missing a three-run homer.

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2025

What the Vikings really missed, however, was that one finishing blow that has been so darn elusive for much of the season.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 7, 2021

It wasn’t enough, though, because the White Sox beat the Yankees at their own game: Jose Abreu, Eloy Jimenez and Seby Zavala went deep off starter Andrew Heaney before Anderson’s finishing blow.

From New York Times • Aug. 13, 2021

Now the country is staring down two paths: deliver a finishing blow by achieving herd immunity through vaccination, or risk additional and preventable outbreaks from a virus that has grown more threatening.

From Washington Post • Jul. 3, 2021

Need I tell you that this was a finishing blow to the old man?

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 21 by Leighton, Alexander