26 examples of knock-out in sentences

I suppose you will agree with me that our pretty theory has got a knock-out blow, this time.

These are the boys who stopped the Germans up in Belleau Wood when the boches were headed for Paris and cocksure of getting there, blandly unaware that they were goose-stepping toward an American knock-out.

At the end of a full minute, however, Darrin had sent his enemy to the ground, stopped in a knock-out.

When Huerta put Gustavo Madero under arrest, still sitting at the table where Huerta had been his guest, Huerta sought to palliate his action by claiming that Gustavo Madero had tried to poison him by putting "knock-out" drops into Huerta's after-dinner brandy.

Said Sabota hired him to put 'knock-out' in some coffee for th' Ramblin' Kid and he reckoned the dose wasn't big enough or something.

He wasn't drunk at allhe was just poisoned with 'knock-out!'

"On second thought, I don't believe I'd stand still for long; I'd try to give my thief a knock-out blow and then go help my friend.

He wasted some time in finding out just how much aid he might expect from his late father's friends, but when he understood the attitude of society toward a knocked-out gentleman he wisely ceased to annoy society, and turned to the business world.

I have had some practice in my boxing days of dealing with knocked-out men, and although Savaroff was a pretty hard case, a little vigorous massage and one or two good sousings soon produced signs of returning consciousness.

We are not quite sure whether our spirited contemporary refers to justice or ju-jitsu; but, either way, it means to give the Huns a knock-out.

For the truth is that the war has given the top-hat a knock-out blow.

consummation, denouement; finish &c (completion) 729; fate; doom, doomsday; crack of doom, day of Judgment, dies irae, fall of the curtain; goal, destination; limit, determination; expiration, expiry^, extinction, extermination; death &c 360; end of all things; finality; eschatology. break up, commencement de la fin, last stage, turning point; coup de grace, deathblow; knock-out-blow; sockdolager [U.S.].

I used to feel so sorry for him when Fate dealt him another blow that would have been a "knock-out" for most people.

"Noise is as good as knock-outs in the dark," he explained, while Anazeh's men boasted to one another of the straight shooting that it may be they really believed they had done.

Anyway, it'll be new, and a knock-out.

She had a knock-out in four feetbut Beatrice, she was, to those mules.

(Pub. abroad as Knock-out, by Sapper, pseud., in the Daily mail, Feb. 15-Apr. 4, 1933)

(Pub. abroad as Knock-out, by Sapper, pseud., in the Daily mail, Feb. 15-Apr. 4, 1933)

It was a complete knock-out.

Two knock-outs in one dayand such men as them!

It ran thus: "COUSIN HONORA, MY DEAR AND PRIZED: "Rather a knock-out blow, eh?

It was a knock-out blow.

But the gaps have all been filled up, and once more we are at full strength, comfortably conscious that whereas a year ago we were fighting to hold a line, and play for time, and find our feet, while the people at home behind us were making good, now we are fighting for one thing and one thing only; and that is, to administer the knock-out blow to Brother Boche.

"I'd begun to think Mike had handed you a real knock-out that time.

"It's a knock-out all right," Hogan declared.

26 examples of  knock-out  in sentences