Sentence examples for an unexpected blow from inspiring English sources

The verdict seemed an unexpected blow to Manhattan prosecutors.

The ride-hailing business has dealt automakers an unexpected blow.

Miami's reputation for balmy winters has suffered an unexpected blow this month: waves of cold weather.

The retired Russian tennis player Anna Chakvetadze also expressed surprise, saying: "It's an unexpected blow.

For Ms. Rosengarten, whose son jabbed her with a toy car, absorbing an unexpected blow had unpredictable consequences.

The verdict: the merger had been allowed on the basis of inadequate evidence.The court's decision was an unexpected blow for the commission's competition division.

Meanwhile, those who live or work with temperamental people can carry dread of an unexpected blow-up.

The lost deposit was perhaps predictable, but the embarrassment of coming behind the Greens was not, and the abject humiliation of limping in behind the BNP in this affluent home counties seat was an entirely unexpected blow.

That was a huge unexpected blow to the pocketbook.

England had hoped to hit Spain on the counter-attack but they sat too far back and it is hard to see the streetwise opponents they may meet at the sharp end of Euro 2016 being too troubled by the idea of Hodgson's side flooring them with a sudden, unexpected blow if this is their approach.

A further, unexpected blow for Cosima fell in September 1862, when her sister Blandine, who had shared much of her upbringing, died in childbirth she had been married to Émile Ollivier, a Parisian lawyer, since October 1857.