How to Use death blow in a Sentence

death blow

noun
  • The marine heat wave was just the final death blow.
    — Alex Harris, Miami Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
  • This is not going to be a death blow to the president.
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 4 Nov. 2025
  • What’s especially tragic is that Dunk had the fight wrapped up before the death blow happened.
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Investors and researchers were shaken by that ruling, but not deterred, viewing it more as a hurdle than a death blow.
    — Andre Mouchard, Oc Register, 18 Aug. 2025
  • So why shouldn’t Trump exploit that fragility to land a death blow against a murderous adversary?
    — Franklin Foer, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
  • But the introduction and rapid adoption of mobile phones dealt a death blow to their usage—seemingly in the blink of an eye.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Decay, the weather, ownership changes, cultural shifts, funding nightmares or a deadly virus couldn't strike the death blow.
    — Keith Sharon, Nashville Tennessean, 18 May 2025
  • If the royal family thought ‘Spare’ was damaging, a memoir by Fergie could deliver a death blow.
    — Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa, FOXNews.com, 18 Nov. 2025
  • But the people who love it have put it back together strong enough that a century of decay, the weather, ownership changes, cultural shifts, funding nightmares and a deadly virus couldn't strike the death blow.
    — Laura L. Davis, Nashville Tennessean, 9 Nov. 2025
  • In September, those plans were dealt a death blow when the city council approved amending the municipal zoning code to prohibit timesharing in single-family homes.
    — Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 15 Dec. 2025
  • The death blow came on the heels and in comes in advance of unprecedented efforts by formerly Confederate states undertaking their own efforts to disenfranchise Black voters through gerrymandering.
    — Chadd Scott, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • In the view of the movie theater industry trade association Cinema United, the deal — which is still pending regulatory approval and would not go into effect until Q3 next year — represents a death blow to multiplexes.
    — Chris Lee, Vulture, 5 Dec. 2025
  • And in January the administration delivered a death blow to a program that was meant to deploy backup solar and storage systems at hospitals and at 30,000 homes of rural, low-income and medically vulnerable people, according to Latitude Media.
    — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 9 Feb. 2026
  • New York Review contributors David Cole, Sherrilyn Ifill, and Pamela Karlan come together for a wide-ranging conversation on the consequences of the Supreme Court’s death blow to the Voting Rights Act.
    — David Cole, The New York Review of Books, 2 June 2026

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