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counterblow

NOUN
  1. a return blow; a retaliatory blow

How To Use counterblow In A Sentence

  • The natural desire is to limit the need to go face-to-face with one's enemy and hence to avoid the enemy's counterblows.
  • The only clue in the drawn face in front of him to a hard-kill counterblow was the slight twitch of the muscles under his left eye. A DAYSTAR OF FEAR
  • Generosity is so far removed from the predictable, petty, gruesome dance of blow and counterblow, that it can cause parties to stop and think.
  • And when the counterblows came - the SS King Tiger tanks bursting through the pine trees and over the Soviet trenches - these men died where they stood.
  • Then, for what seemed like forever, it was all shouting, blow and counterblow, screams and blood and last-minute parries, and far too many people trying to kill his Queen. Exile's Valor
  • Eventually, Adams grabbed the initiative with an energetic counterblow in the centre.
  • She gave no thought to fending off a counterblow or to raising any sort of defense. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
  • In the other case it applies to using mobility of the troops and their fire power to deliver surprise counterblows at the advancing enemy.
  • [Castro] I believe the people dealt a remarkable political counterblow. Holds News Conference
  • The counterblow at Senno and the Soviet counterblows in other places halted the German onslaught and, by night of 9 July, created a defense line along the rivers of Zapadnaia Dvina and Dnieper.
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