Achilles-heel Sentence Examples

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  • Even mighty foes will have an Achilles heel which the diligent player can exploit.

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  • The clinician taps the rubber triangular shaped end in several different areas in the arms, knee, and Achilles heel area.

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  • If she got desperate enough, that desire might become her husband's Achilles Heel.

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  • It was the fiscal question that arrayed against Mazarin a coalition of all petty interests and frustrated ambitions; this was always the Achilles heel of the French monarchy, Financial which in 1648 was at the last extremity for money.

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  • Obtaining accurate and timely information continued to be our Achilles heel.

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