How to Use sucker punch in a Sentence

sucker punch

verb

• One of them sucker punched me.
• His rivals have skipped right past the open-palm slap and moved right to the sucker punch.
  — Time, 25 Aug. 2023
• The stock market crash of 1929 hit the nation like a sucker punch.
  — Paul Vachon, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2021
• Fast forward a week and the drama of Paul’s sucker punch was gone.
  — Chris Chase, For The Win, 14 Mar. 2018
• This is when Underwood, 60, stood up and threw a sucker punch to the body politic.
  — Dan Barry, BostonGlobe.com, 10 July 2022
• The woman, who now has two black eyes, said the attack began when one of the men in the group sucker punched her.
  — Fox News, 25 July 2019
• Hopefully, the goon in the teal shorts who went for a sucker punch to the back of the head gets reprimanded very soon.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 19 June 2019
• And then a series of events felt like a sucker punch, leaving me gasping for air.
  — Lakeisha Fleming, CNN, 20 May 2018
• Though the evening doesn't quite go as planned, the gang consoles each other at home, where Jess gets her revenge on Nick for the sucker punch.
  — Nicole Briese, Peoplemag, 5 Oct. 2022
• It’s a sucker punch that has worked for teenagers and autocrats alike for millennia.
  — Philip Elliott, Time, 17 June 2021
• The video of the attack shows a boy sucker punching another boy, who is then struck by a third person standing out of frame.
  — Alex Wigglesworth, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2019
• Having led the game until the 97th minute conceding an equaliser felt like a sucker punch.
  — Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2023
• The Delta surge — a sucker punch to the gut just as freedom seemed near — has inflamed the ambient sense of powerlessness.
  — William Falk, The Week, 14 Aug. 2021
• Dinner commences with a lavish sucker punch in the form of a nori tostada, topped with spiny lobster, uni and Kaluga caviar.
  — Cesar Hernandez, San Francisco Chronicle, 12 Apr. 2023
• In a purplish shade of bruise, with smirks and implications, taunts and sucker punches.
  — Brian Gresko, Longreads, 12 June 2018
• With China currently fighting its biggest Covid wave since Wuhan 2020, the crash felt like a sucker punch.
  — Jessie Yeung, CNN, 23 Mar. 2022
• Police in the city are also searching for the suspect seen in a video who appeared to sucker punch a 55-year-old Asian woman in Chinatown.
  — Fox News, 1 June 2021
• For people like me who have been diagnosed with ALS, the rejection landed like a sucker punch.
  — Bernard Zipprich, STAT, 24 Apr. 2022
• The rapper was allegedly sucker punched from behind and then kicked and punched by other assailants.
  — Monique O. Madan, Alex Harris, Carli Teproff and Rebecca Ellis, miamiherald, 19 June 2018
• The boy’s family claimed that one day before the attack, the eighth-grader sought the help of his science teacher after being sucker punched in the head, the statement says.
  — Nicole Acosta, Peoplemag, 15 Sep. 2023
• The briefings spanned three deadly surges in San Antonio: the summer of 2020, the winter months, and the sucker punch from the virus’ delta variant that began in July this year.
  — Bruce Selcraig, San Antonio Express-News, 5 Nov. 2021
• This was in evidence at no greater time than Thursday night’s conceding of a sucker punch away goal against Atletico Madrid.
  — SI.com, 27 Apr. 2018
• In the surveillance video, a man in his 80s is seen standing next to a building when he is approached by another man who appears to sucker punch him.
  — Fox News, 9 June 2022
• England arguably had the best of the chances but weren't clinical enough in front of goal, only to suffer a sucker punch when France were awarded a soft penalty for handball.
  — SI.com, 19 June 2019
• But somewhere in the middle of each date, Frank would turn confrontational and sucker punch me with some sadistic comment or question out of left field.
  — Dave Stukas, latimes.com, 29 June 2018
• Moments later, an older man came up from behind and sucker punched her in the head, demanding her cellphone.
  — Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com, 23 Aug. 2019
• The second is the walloping hook, which hits like a sucker punch when juxtaposed with the minimal track -- the third, more low-key star that creates the foundation for the other two to shine.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 27 June 2019
• The emotional equivalent of a sucker punch to the gut caught me totally off-guard and I was floored by an intense wave of grief, shock, anxiety and despair.
  — Sarah Graham, refinery29.com, 10 Mar. 2020
• But the real sucker punch came when one protester branded me a pedophile, pornographer and groomer of children.
  — Martha Hickson, CNN, 31 Oct. 2022
• According to authorities, here's how the events unfolded: Akrawi waited until the Kubic turned his head to talk to a friend then knocked him out with a sucker punch.
  — Taylor Nichole Morris, Detroit Free Press, 27 Dec. 2019

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024