How to Use sucker punch in a Sentence

sucker punch

verb

• One of them sucker punched me.
• This looked like a team that had just absorbed quite a sucker punch.
  — Josh Yohe, The Athletic, 14 Jan. 2025
• Fast forward a week and the drama of Paul’s sucker punch was gone.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 14 Mar. 2018
• And then a series of events felt like a sucker punch, leaving me gasping for air.
  — Lakeisha Fleming, CNN, 20 May 2018
• Out on her break alone, Dana is suddenly sucker punched with a blow that knocks her to the ground.
  — Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Feb. 2025
• The woman, who now has two black eyes, said the attack began when one of the men in the group sucker punched her.
  — Fox News, 25 July 2019
• The stock market crash of 1929 hit the nation like a sucker punch.
  — Paul Vachon, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2021
• As the surprised man turns around, his assailant sucker punches him in the face, knocking him to the ground.
  — Chris Pandolfo, Fox News, 17 May 2024
• This is when Underwood, 60, stood up and threw a sucker punch to the body politic.
  — Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• Hopefully, the goon in the teal shorts who went for a sucker punch to the back of the head gets reprimanded very soon.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 19 June 2019
• In a purplish shade of bruise, with smirks and implications, taunts and sucker punches.
  — Brian Gresko, Longreads, 12 June 2018
• Kennedy’s antics may sound like a punchline, but his campaign could be the sucker punch that decides the election.
  — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2024
• To control them and tool them apply a growth regulator called sucker punch to the suckers.
  — Steve Bender, Southern Living, 1 Apr. 2026
• The rapper was allegedly sucker punched from behind and then kicked and punched by other assailants.
  — Monique O. Madan, Alex Harris, Carli Teproff and Rebecca Ellis, miamiherald, 19 June 2018
• The video of the attack shows a boy sucker punching another boy, who is then struck by a third person standing out of frame.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• Having led the game until the 97th minute conceding an equaliser felt like a sucker punch.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• Letang responded by sucker punching Konecny in the face.
  — Josh Yohe, New York Times, 30 Apr. 2026
• At the time, Connor Lockwood’s elbow injury felt like a sucker punch.
  — Noah Poser, Chicago Tribune, 13 Mar. 2026
• Moments later, an older man came up from behind and sucker punched her in the head, demanding her cellphone.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• Video footage captures a heated exchange before one of the men sucker punched the rapper, which turned the scuffle into a brawl.
  — Marc Griffin, VIBE.com, 2 July 2024
• Dinner commences with a lavish sucker punch in the form of a nori tostada, topped with spiny lobster, uni and Kaluga caviar.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
• Tucker had a different take, saying that Fletcher was trying to sucker punch him.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 20 Jan. 2026
• Though the evening doesn't quite go as planned, the gang consoles each other at home, where Jess gets her revenge on Nick for the sucker punch.
  — Nicole Briese, People.com, 22 Oct. 2024
• Though the evening doesn't quite go as planned, the gang consoles each other at home, where Jess gets her revenge on Nick for the sucker punch.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
• But the real sucker punch came when one protester branded me a pedophile, pornographer and groomer of children.
  — Martha Hickson, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
• The umpire tried to break up the scuffle, only to be sucker punched from behind by Aballi, police alleged.
  — Ben Brachfeld, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026
• The Delta surge — a sucker punch to the gut just as freedom seemed near — has inflamed the ambient sense of powerlessness.
  — William Falk, The Week, 14 Aug. 2021
• But somewhere in the middle of each date, Frank would turn confrontational and sucker punch me with some sadistic comment or question out of left field.
  — Dave Stukas, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
• For people like me who have been diagnosed with ALS, the rejection landed like a sucker punch.
  — Bernard Zipprich, STAT, 24 Apr. 2022
• All that changed a few months before the shooting when Jones sucker punched Branton at a bar during an argument over a girlfriend.
  — Harriet Ramos, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 13 Sep. 2025