Sentence examples for a potent punch from inspiring English sources
As former patrons might have said, don't be fooled by size – small drinks pack quite a potent punch.
While some are happy to see them exit, former Senator Alan K. Simpson, a Republican from Wyoming who was known to deliver a potent punch line when in Congress, suggests there is a certain value in lawmakers who occasionally veer toward the outlandish.
She still operates in a niche market — even her ready-to-wear collection maintains a potent punch of luxe, and her lower-priced gowns cost between $3,000 and $6,000 — but the increasing exposure from those red-carpet turns is winning nods from fashion's more mainstream followers.
But I remember "The Cage" packing a far more potent punch than it does today.
And to drink, a gentle-tasting but fully potent punch made with Cognac, maraschino, lime and nutmeg.
Rowand was traded for Jim Thome, who, if his elbow and back allow, will join first baseman Paul Konerko as a potent 1-2 punch.
The 36-year-old Lackey outdid Lester, with whom he formed a potent 1-2 punch on the 2013 Red Sox, the team that knocked off the Cardinals in the World Series.
IN August, at the big bash that was meant to mark the homecoming of Harriet Beecher Stowe's birthplace in Litchfield, guests clanked cups of a potent rum punch and hooted at the celebratory cannon fire honoring the planned resurrection of the childhood home of the town's most famous native.
But to scholars and language lovers the work he set in motion is an invaluable guide to the way Americans not only speak but also live — a homegrown answer to the Oxford English Dictionary, served up with heaping sides of "slump" (cobbler), "turkey cheese" (cottage cheese) and "wapatuli" (a potent Wisconsin punch).
Little did we know that the combination of video and the web today would make a potent 1-2 punch that nothing else can match.
Even more directly, plastic bottles, BPA-lined cans and "microwavable" containers are leaching their toxins into the food and drink they contain, serving consumers a potent petrochemical punch.
