Sentence examples for as a knockout from inspiring English sources

Maxim's victory went into the books as a knockout.

Drug-makers invented Haldol as a knockout drug, essentially, for schizophrenic patients.

The chicken magnate's 73p-a-share offer is intended as a knockout blow to ensure Greencore walks away.

Harding is not known as a knockout artist, but he has worked to increase his power to prepare for Jones.

Additional strains were constructed containing partial duplications of the MCM operon, as well as a knockout of ORF1.

Analysts said they were expecting a bid of at least 500p a share, valuing the company at £2.1bn, with 550p seen as a "knockout" level.

And Ms. Lee, who improbably remains just as much a knockout as she was in her heyday as a sex symbol in the 1960's, conveys surface cheer and tantalizing ambiguity with minimal effort.

The smiling United States coach, Tom Mustin, said, "That's as close to a knockout as you can get in amateur boxing".

The Acosta bout was also on Showtime, as was a knockout victory over the previously undefeated Archie Ray Marquez in June of 2011 that was likely Hovhannisyan's most impressive performance to date.

The dining room, a similarly rich mélange of golds and rusts, is almost as much of a knockout.

Sure, the reviews say quippy things like "Creed II" doesn't "pack the same punch" or isn't as much of a "knockout".