Sentence examples for quick blow from inspiring English sources

We need one quick blow from a guillotine, not numerous hacks from a blunt axe.

The earliest senses were "a quick blow, accompanied by a popping sound" and "a twitch".

This fact makes some of the larger species difficult to keep in aquaria since they are capable of breaking the glass with one quick blow.

Most campaign ads are jabs in a boxing match that either land a quick blow or are fended off by a wily opponent.

"Aiming at the pink flesh in his eye, Jacobin again pulled back his right hand and arched his back for one quick blow," Mr. Ptah writes of a confrontation with a character named Bull.

Moreover, Greeley believed that secession had been the work of a small minority of fire-eating fanatics; a quick blow and a little taste of the full force of the Union Army would embolden the silent majority of Southern Unionists he believed had yet to be roused.

The hair stylist Didier Malige (who sheepishly admitted that he had never watched the movie) used Aveda Brilliant Retexturing Gel on center-parted, wet hair before twisting each side, giving them a quick blow-dry, and then pinning them up into two buns to let them set.

Its grill men chop the steak into small pieces with a few quick blows from the edges of their spatulas.

That is the time that it takes to shower, brush my teeth and do a quick blow-dry.

Your dictionary tells you it's "a Japanese art of self-defense characterized chiefly by sharp, quick blows delivered by the hands and feet". "OK," you think to yourself.

"Maybe I'll learn to protect myself in the process". Then you realize that you've never delivered sharp, quick blows with anything, let alone with your feet, the possibility of which, you imagine, would take some sort of balance and flexibility.