Sentence examples for a sudden blow from inspiring English sources

This leaves Gerry, the most literal victim, elegantly played by Mr. Whitehead, as a man stunned by a sudden blow to his belief system.

In 1947, for example, the proverbial heavy snow blanketed the entire Northeast, with New York getting 25.8 inches in 16 hours in a blizzard that stranded buses, shut down subways, killed about 80 people and left the city, as this newspaper reported three days later, "like a giant stunned by a sudden blow".

A sudden blow when he's so engaged and oblivious?

As William Butler Yeats revised his sonnet about a girl fighting off a giant swan, he added "A sudden blow" to the beginning, following those three words with a colon.

When I received a call from my psychoanalyst's colleague saying that she had suffered a debilitating stroke and heard the phrase, "She will never practice again," I thought, A sudden blow: Quite mistakenly on that Sunday in March three years ago, I assumed that nothing would follow the stroke's wrenching colon, and my beloved analyst would die.

Rarely, receiving a sudden blow to the back or falling.

A sudden blow-out can cause a forklift to overturn, injuring or killing by-standers and the operator.

At a point, which feels much later, a sudden gust blows through the trees and shakes big, fat raindrops over us.

Just out of town, with her riding a little ahead of me, a sudden gust of wind blew my directions off the stand.

A sudden gust of wind threatened to blow away the Sky News gazebo, only for Dr Fox to leap into action to save it.

It is very easy for a sudden gust of wind to suddenly blow over a candle with a high centre of gravity, creating an immediate and very high fire risk, as well as creating a spillage of hot wax which may be very damaging to numerous surfaces.