Sentence examples for vicious blows from inspiring English sources

A uniformed policeman managed to stop the beating and lead the young man, who was dazed by several vicious blows to his head, to a police car.

The widespread leg trauma was a result of bombs that seemed to deliver their most vicious blows within two feet of the ground.

The face of tyranny may have changed, but in Jin's provincial China, characters remain subject to the arbitrary and vicious blows of power.

In the sport's primitive era, body blows, concussions, spinal injuries and even blood poisoning — the result of on-field savagery that included late hits, punching, kneeing, eye-gouging and vicious blows to the windpipe — often proved fatal.

There is no telling what he might have achieved had fate not dealt him a series of such vicious blows after United paid £17m for his signature in the summer of 2007.

For not only do we feel shame, but also deep anxiety: The university requires decades to grow, and the credibility of a university - more important, the credibility of the entire university system - can be brought low by the vicious blows of the few.

If that's true, it was a vicious blow.

Drago strikes Apollo after the bell with a vicious blow and kills him.

Each tiny lump must be a vicious blow on his skin, but he never flinches.

Shots are heard, a body is later found – Denny's, not shot but with his head staved in from a vicious blow with a large, heavy object.

Congress dealt itself a vicious blow in 2011 by eliminating earmarks, the ability to direct funds to a specific project — usually in the member's district.