Sentence examples for whammy to from inspiring English sources

"Then you'll have a double whammy to the share price".

This lent a double whammy to the reveal, since it forced us to grieve for our own naïveté.

So commodity prices tended to fall sharply during Western recessions, delivering a "double whammy" to resource-dependent economies.Although oil prices fell in the second half of 2008, they have risen significantly since then thanks to demand in the developing world.

The gene combination, said Dr. Michael Bristow, a heart failure expert at the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver, "is like a double whammy to the failing heart".

A major public investment programme in job creation in house-building, infrastructure enhancement and the new green digital economy would provide a triple whammy to meet the current impasse.

Scientists have found that huge supervolcanoes known as the Deccan Traps, in what is now northern India, doubled their eruptions within about 50,000 years of the Earth being hit by a giant asteroid about 66 million years ago – both events combining to deliver a lethal double whammy to the stricken dinosaurs.

After that night, she was determined to return to Whammy Bar, to keep seeing her favourite bands and reclaim the space.

High oil prices deal a double-whammy to Southeast Asia's developing economies, raising the cost of energy while curbing demand for the exports the region depends on for growth.

It gives nothing away, even to those who can still be taken in by Mr. Levin's multiple whammies, to quote a neat sum-up by a minor character, Porter Milgrim, a lawyer.

Scientists suggest this is because heat and light serve as a double-whammy to coral health and corals that hang out in shady zones will escape the scorching combination, upping the chances that remnants will survive.

The controller does, however, retain the familiar strum bar to play notes and a whammy bar to add effects.