Sentence examples for from a single blow from inspiring English sources

He died from a single blow to the neck.

Barnes found Wilson died from a single blow to the back of her head and Evans, who escaped briefly before being hunted down by the group, was killed by numerous blows to her face, likely the result of her captors stomping on her face in anger that she got away.

Some residents from Askar love to recall how Mr. Abu Kishek once dropped a fighter from Jenin with a single blow in the Palestine Is In Memory center.

In his collection The Village, the City, the Suicide of the Astronaut, and Other Stories, he pauses for a quick, thought-provoking defense of dictatorship: "The tyranny of a single man is the most tolerable of all tyrannies; after all, he is just one man and can be removed from power in a single blow".

McKinney's ramshackle boat suggested a piece of fiberglass stamped into boat shape from a blank with a single blow.

My band of would-be frontiersmen and I stalked our prey with the knowledge that while just one strike from a knife would take the beast down, a single blow from its paws would do the same to any player.

His face slashed, his body rent by musket balls, he fought savagely until — and here surviving accounts of the battle diverge — he either succumbed to his many wounds or was felled by a single blow from a sword, which left his head dangling from his shoulder by a ribbon of flesh.

In a horrific operation reminiscent of animal sacrifice, the flesh around the limbs and neck was first cut down to the bones, which were then slashed with a single blow from an implement much like a butcher's meat cleaver.

A previously secret police report released in 2010 concluded that Peach was almost certainly killed by a single blow from a member of the Met's special patrol group.

It was something he'd made in fifth-grade woodworking class, probably the best thing he'd ever made in any class, carefully tapping in the nails and sanding the edges, carving his name on the lid — "Bobby" — then screwing in the hinges, screwing in the latch secured by a small padlock, the loss of its key remedied by a single blow from a hammer.

It was something he'd made in fifth-grade woodworking class, probably the best thing he'd ever made in any class, carefully tapping in the nails and sanding the edges, carving his name on the lid—"Bobby"—then screwing in the hinges, screwing in the latch secured by a small padlock, the loss of its key remedied by a single blow from a hammer.