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prep.phr. (alternative form of at one stroke English)
Usage examples of "at a single stroke".
He could not throw away thirty years of his campaign against evil, at a single stroke discrediting everything.
What if he took all the Earth's life at a single stroke - with the exception, of course, of life in the air and on the land and in the waters around Malta?
Suddenly he flung away his war-club, red with blood, rushed upon a wounded warrior, and, chopping off his arm at a single stroke, carried the dissevered member to his mouth, and bit it again and again.
Now at a single stroke I can restore our status -- or at least give us a fair chance to halt the erosion.
Now at a single stroke I can restore our status-or at least give us a fair chance to halt the erosion.
We were both assured that the solution of these problems would advance the cause of civilization within Pellucidar thousands of years at a single stroke.
Had Melody been able to capture a modified unit, Galaxy Milky Way would have had equalization of technology at a single stroke.
He had seen the latter, and knew at a single stroke he looked on a library that, like a wizard’.
In this way, the risk that the entire treasure could be lost at a single stroke of misfortune was greatly reduced.
No, he had been right to set the trap and end it at a single stroke.
Had I been Arthur, I would have split him crown to crotch at a single stroke.