Examples of 'body blow' in a sentence

Meaning of "body blow"

This phrase describes a powerful physical attack or impact directed at the body, often resulting in significant pain, injury, or incapacitation
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  • A severely injurious or damaging physical strike or impact.
  • A hard punch struck to the torso.
  • A serious setback; a traumatizing event which prevents or hinders continuation of an activity.

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This would be a body blow to many farmers.
This is oc sk uryoocks off straightforward body blow.
Another body blow soon followed.
Our democracy will suffer a body blow.
Even the super body blow could not do it.
I was expecting to see quite a bit more body blow.
Dealt a body blow this week.
That must have been an absolute body blow to him.
But the body blow only works if it is used.
Well he survived that body blow.
It will be a body blow to the cultural identity of the city.
Losing his job was a real body blow.
It was another body blow to American pride.
I just think we are setting ourselves up for a major body blow here.
When its movies dealt a body blow to world filmmaking.

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There is no doubt that the economy has sustained a body blow.
Looked to me like you delivered a body blow instead of putting a spirit in.
There is no question that the economy has endured a body blow.
It was a body blow.
Suddenly somebody hugged tightly at her with the momentum that was like a body blow.
The news must have been a body blow to Harold.
What a body blow to Liverpool.
Then probably the financial system would receive such a body blow that it could be disastrous.
A significant body blow was dealt to the non-proliferation norms last year.
And Dylan answers with a body blow.
Now comes the body blow from the Delhi meeting.
The established Church took a body blow.
The Iraqi army has received a body blow from which it will be difficult to recover.
The US machine tool sector never recovered from this body blow.
But suddenly an unexpected body blow struck the IRA.
An unprecedented body blow to trans-Atlantic relationships based on trust and common values.
A failed confirmation for the Court is a body blow to a presidency.
Ooh, that body blow really hurt Sinclair.
And I do not know if I can withstand another body blow like this.
That was a big body blow right there. Big blow.
But it 's still as painful as receiving a body blow.
The arrests have dealt a body blow to Egypt 's independent civil society.
By using clones, this technique 's offensive power is much higher than a normal body blow.
It 's a savage body blow to the commercial real estate market in New York.
What a picture! Bodyguard gets body blow.
Let this body blow up, but I am only staying here.
But Charlie, undeterred, engineered a lethal body blow that weakened the Communist empire.
Mark this as the date that Germany 's global warming movement took a massive body blow.
Whatever the truth, would have been a body blow for the ageins Rameses.
A body blow gets stuck in straight!
The @ FCC 's vote to gut NetNeutrality rules is a body blow to innovation and free expression.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange ‘ s protracted effort to fight extraditionto Sweden suffered a body blow this week.
Look, Bess, this coup business is the worst body blow to the presidency since Watergate.
I said, you know, with a slight hesitation, not the full body blow.
It 's been a body blow for all of us.

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