How to Use body blow in a Sentence

body blow

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  • Each attack on Kharkiv feels like a body blow to the soul.
    — Claire Harbage, NPR, 24 Feb. 2024
  • That said, doing nothing would be a body blow to the Fed’scredibility.
    — Larry Light, Fortune, 29 July 2019
  • No one knows how many more body blows the bay can absorb.
    — T. Edward Nickens, Field & Stream, 6 Dec. 2019
  • The veto of the bill was a body blow to a union already struggling to stay on its feet.
    — Anita Chabria, Los Angeles Times, 27 July 2022
  • Both teams made runs, the tension growing with each body blow.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2022
  • Tim Hightower gave the Saints the first body blow with a 70-yard TD burst on the first play from scrimmage.
    — Larry Holder, NOLA.com, 14 Jan. 2018
  • But Epstein’s death is also a body blow to the public trust.
    — Leonard Pitts Jr - Miami Herald, The Mercury News, 16 Aug. 2019
  • Internally, sources at Ford say, the news is a body blow.
    — Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 6 Aug. 2021
  • The Pac-12 took some body blows last weekend, starting with Oregon’s loss to Auburn.
    — oregonlive, 2 Sep. 2019
  • On Wednesday, Barrett dealt the chief justice a body blow.
    — Adam Liptak, Star Tribune, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The other deals with the sweat and guts and blood regimen of stick and move, jabs, body blows and uppercuts.
    — Rubén Rosario, Twin Cities, 15 Nov. 2019
  • The pandemic, meanwhile, dealt a body blow to Christmas in the City, forcing Sparky to pull the plug on the big party the last three years.
    — Globe Columnist, BostonGlobe.com, 13 Dec. 2022
  • How quickly might the economy get back on its feet from the tremendous body blows?
    — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2020
  • While Durant was dealing body blows, the Warriors' role players worked off the ball to find openings at the rim.
    — Rob Mahoney, SI.com, 7 June 2018
  • Tillerson, Dunford, and Mattis would not take those body blows for much longer.
    — Carol D. Leonnig, Philip Rucker, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Jan. 2020
  • This year, the snow crab harvest dropped nearly 90% in a body blow to the city’s budget and to its efforts to keep people from moving away.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 10 Apr. 2022
  • On Wednesday, Justice Barrett dealt the chief justice a body blow.
    — Adam Liptak, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The Code wasn’t the only body blow against the industry in the 1950s, and distribution was central to that story, too.
    — cleveland, 11 June 2020
  • However, the real body blow came in 1948 and struck at the economic heart of the industry.
    — Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Feb. 2022
  • The Lakers simply absorbed the latest body blow to their championship hopes and played on.
    — Greg Beacham, BostonGlobe.com, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Some public health experts say it’s not enough to deal with the coming body blow to the American health care system.
    — Megan Molteni, STAT, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Yet the restrictions have not been the body blow that Western officials hoped for—or anything near it.
    — Hanna Notte, Foreign Affairs, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Such a strike could knock the legs out from under the still-struggling supply chain and serve another body blow to the US economy.
    — Chris Isidore, CNN, 12 Sep. 2022
  • The two fought for position down low, often exchanging body blows and hard fouls.
    — Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 27 Aug. 2019
  • For an already ailing sector, the pandemic has been a body blow.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz India, 6 Apr. 2020
  • The loss of Burton would be a body blow to the offense because of the critical role his position owns with Reich’s scheme.
    — Jim Ayello, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Aug. 2020
  • In the case of Russia, however, a rapid brain drain would be a zero-sum body blow for a variety of reasons.
    — Alex Salkever, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2022
  • A couple weeks later, the body blow: Kate, the love of my life, was diagnosed with a terminal brain illness.
    — Chris Vognar, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2021
  • The teams exchanged body blows in the first two games, with the Heat following up a Sixers blowout by stealing homecourt two nights later.
    — Rohan Nadkarni, SI.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • For the traditionalists, the decision to scrap the current iconic look is like a body blow.
    — Ken Goe, OregonLive.com, 19 Apr. 2018

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