Example Sentences

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If a candidate was a long shot, a well-delivered blow can hasten their downward spiral—though it probably won’t help the candidate who landed the rhetorical punch.

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2023

What is less clear, however, is whether he has the ability — or even the interest — to turn his well-delivered words into tangible results without self-sabotaging or undermining his and his team’s best intentions. 

From Washington Post • Jan. 30, 2018

It was Gregory’s conviction that within a well-delivered joke lies power.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 25, 2017

Throughout, the anti-Clinton message of the relatively sparsely attended protest was well-delivered, and whoopee cushions added to the feel of a fart-in.

From US News • Jul. 27, 2016

I flicked the television on and off a couple times, then went over and gave it a smack, hoping to jump-start the entire central Michigan cable network with a well-delivered blow, but it wasn’t happening.

From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx