Sentence examples for swift blow from inspiring English sources

Each one is a swift blow to the solar plexus.

A single swift blow and you're dead, game over.

But Poljak extinguished it with one swift blow, gathering at the top of the box for a razzle-dazzle finish that gave Pearce no chance.

Grainy footage of the episode, captured by a nearby security camera, seemed to show a brief altercation, with Mr. Agafonov crumpling to the ground after a receiving a swift blow.

It is not easy for the handful of Republican councilmen to infuriate both the mayor of New York City and the speaker of the City Council with one swift blow, but yesterday, they managed to do just that.

Clearly, the newspaper's editor (and its publisher) are going to phase out Page 3 - note the capital P - rather than kill it off with one swift blow and thereby revert to a daily lower case page 3.

Truly, there's nothing that cools a man's fondness for a woman more than three swift blows to the head with a blunt instrument.

"Barely even got started on the Grand Sojourn, and he drops from underneath me," he says with bitter disgust, then gives the poor creature the first of many swift blows to the belly with his boot.

There was always a gnarly police presence as riot-gear clad teen cops carrying obscene, skelf-y batons patrolled the strip clearing the road of meandering clubbers with swift blows to exposed kneecaps.

It's not a play that scores a swift knockout blow, but it registers a hard-won victory on points.

But that may be true of the ill-fated Gallipoli campaign, which was intended by British politicians and generals to deliver a swift knockout blow to the Ottoman Empire, but instead ended in an Ottoman triumph and lengthened the conflict.