The submarine had hit its target, punching a lethal blow through the boat’s underbelly.

Which was the lethal blow?

The lethal blow penetrated his lung and heart.

This incident was considered to be the lethal blow that led the fall of the camp.

For example, the main character can either grab on to a griffin's legs and attack it directly, or climb up to reach its head for a more lethal blow.

There are elaborate rules for many confrontations, for example, ones that tend to make for a trial of strength without lethal consequences.

Surely there can never have been a bureaucratic turf war with more lethal consequences?

If someone stands with one foot closer to the contact point than the other foot, an electrical current will flow through their body, sometimes with lethal consequences.

We have been filling the oceans with an accelerating quantity of plastic, a substance that doesn't disappear but only splits up, with lethal consequences for sea life.

Criticality accidents have occurred in the past, some of them with lethal consequences.

Not only did the interloper forage more effectively for food, it also brought with it a lethal disease called squirrel poxvirus.

It involves their only son, a lethal disease and a disagreement over inoculation.

Hospitals announced that they were struggling to deal with an upsurge of dengue fever, a potentially lethal disease.

Primarily for the administration of the distinct, it was also the base for the control of the tsetse fly and its associated lethal disease trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness).

Out-of-date cosmetics could be a source of potentially lethal diseases.

Official inquiries into the two trusts found a 'lethal mix' of failings among staff that led to unnecessary deaths.

Burning a kilogram of it would fill a 50m³ room with an incapacitating and ultimately lethal mix of carbon monoxide and hydrogen cyanide gas.

Her karate chops and spray-on catsuit were a lethal mix.

Shame that the lethal mix of water and electricity sometimes leads them to catch fire.

The credit crunch coupled with bankruptcy has been a lethal mix for the family.

It was only now, in recovery, that he had realised what a lethal mixture he was taking.

He saw this as a lethal mixture which, when profits declined and economic times became hard, would lead to violence in society.

On another long flight he filled an ice bucket with a lethal mixture of spirits and passed it around his press corps until it was empty.

What if a lethal strain of the virus emerged today?

Or else the virus rapidly mutated to a less lethal strain after the hosts carrying the most virulent form had died - a feature of some pandemics.

Another theory holds that the 1918 virus mutated extremely rapidly to a less lethal strain.

In addition, the rapidly mutating virus likely evolved over time into less lethal strains.

I have followed with almost as much concern the lacklustre response of governments to this lethal threat.

Those sudden unexpected appearances in the penalty box made him a lethal threat to opposing defences.

The principal deterrent may not be the hybrid collectif, however, but the alarming and lethal threat of criminal violence.

Lethal threats arrive in many forms: windstorms, ice storms, lightning strikes, wildfires, droughts, floods, a host of constantly evolving diseases, swarms of voracious insects.

A lethal virus, he said, to reduce the population of the planet.

The ebola epidemic showed how quickly we can get a lethal virus under control even in very poor countries, despite some early mistakes.

In response, the 456 release a lethal virus.

They back on to a former landfill site which emits potentially lethal methane vapours.

The star posted images on the internet of her taking potentially lethal nitrous oxide gas.

But have too much and it's potentially lethal.

Its pilots endured perishingly cold conditions in frozen cockpits and daily negotiated potentially lethal makeshift runways in high seas.

Twitchy and potentially lethal in inexperienced hands, it was a bike favoured by those who liked to walk a tightrope between life and the afterlife.