Examples of body blow in a Sentence
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The surest way to demoralize Green Bay is with an early body blow.
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Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
But on Friday night, that excitement was dealt a massive body blow.
—Esfandiar Baraheni, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
Each attack on Kharkiv feels like a body blow to the soul.
—Claire Harbage, NPR, 24 Feb. 2024
And unfortunately, the sector is now sustaining another body blow: billions in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money that’s been keeping remaining providers afloat began running out at the end of September.
—TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
There is a brutality to the Birthday Party that is capable of penetrating your bones, and the pleasingly thunderous sound mix seems intent on landing as many of those body blows as possible.
—Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2023
Yet the restrictions have not been the body blow that Western officials hoped for—or anything near it.
—Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
But the worst body blows—to Evofem, to the handful of other companies in its critical market, and to the 47 million U.S. women who use contraception—have come from a broken health care system.
—Maria Aspan, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
And some of the sharpest body blows landed on the Secret Service that has long prided itself on operating outside politics, protecting presidents of all political stripes in sensitive times.
—Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 20 Jan. 2024
But on Friday night, that excitement was dealt a massive body blow.
—Esfandiar Baraheni, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2024
Each attack on Kharkiv feels like a body blow to the soul.
—Claire Harbage, NPR, 24 Feb. 2024
And unfortunately, the sector is now sustaining another body blow: billions in American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) money that’s been keeping remaining providers afloat began running out at the end of September.
—TIME, 24 Oct. 2023
There is a brutality to the Birthday Party that is capable of penetrating your bones, and the pleasingly thunderous sound mix seems intent on landing as many of those body blows as possible.
—Daniel Dylan Wray, Pitchfork, 11 Oct. 2023
Yet the restrictions have not been the body blow that Western officials hoped for—or anything near it.
—Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
But the worst body blows—to Evofem, to the handful of other companies in its critical market, and to the 47 million U.S. women who use contraception—have come from a broken health care system.
—Maria Aspan, Fortune, 5 Apr. 2023
And some of the sharpest body blows landed on the Secret Service that has long prided itself on operating outside politics, protecting presidents of all political stripes in sensitive times.
—Kevin Johnson, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2023
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“Body blow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/body%20blow. Accessed 25 Apr. 2024.
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