at one stroke
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.26 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
prep_phrase
At once, immediately; in an instant.
Example Sentences
- "I made up my mind that a man confined to his room by inflammation of the lungs, a fellow who had only two wishes left in the world, to see a particular woman, and then to die, could neatly accomplish those two wishes at one stroke by taking this journey in the rain."
- "I should be ready to do the job without being paid for it, though I don't say it is not sweeter to get both gold and revenge at one stroke."
- "[T]he whole object of the poem is to show what infinities of spiritual good and evil a current and sordid story may contain. When once this is realised, it explains at one stroke the innumerable facts about the work."
- ". . . with the wind of ruin in his hair, Soul sprang full-statured from the broken flesh, And at one stroke he lived the whole of life."
- "At one stroke his dashing raiment gave him high superiority over Johnnie Watson and other rivals who might loom."
- "In a blaze of creativity during 10 days in 1950 photographing the Paris collections, he became at one stroke one of the major fashion photographers of the century."