How to Use one-two in a Sentence

one-two

noun

• This one-two, from bloodshed to beauty, dilutes any sense of hopelessness a visitor might understandably feel.
  — Emily Watlington, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2024
• Between the one-two quarterback and running back punch, paired with the team’s other offensive weapons, Baltimore is beginning to find its groove.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 9 Oct. 2024
• Lillard and Antetokounmpo, in theory, should have been the league’s most terrifying one-two punch—like pairing a flamethrower with a freight train.
  — Brian Sampson, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024
• Advertisement Worse, the storm is the second half of a meteorological one-two punch to Florida’s west coast.
  — Sandra McDonald, Los Angeles Times, 8 Oct. 2024
• Florida, which is receiving a one-two punch from both hurricanes Helene and Milton, has just incured unthinkable damage.
  — Laura Gwyn, Architectural Digest, 10 Oct. 2024
• So this year, grass and trees have formed a one-two punch in the May weather.
  — Jack Nimesheim, The Enquirer, 31 May 2023
• Stephan and Clase are Francona’s one-two punch in the eighth and ninth innings.
  — Paul Hoynes, cleveland, 14 July 2023
• Battie and Hunter could become a solid one-two punch for the Tigers.
  — al, 15 Feb. 2023
• The Dons and Montgomery will be seeded one-two in some order.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 May 2023
• The one-two punch was thrown an hour later via an email from Mayor Karen Bass.
  — Louis Sahagún, Los Angeles Times, 4 July 2023
• There’s a one-two step to success in those frames — fastball, slider.
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
• The one-two punch of climate-friendly and delicious grows on trees.
  — Tamar Haspel, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
• So far, the answer seems to be that both natural disasters played a role, in a kind of one-two punch.
  — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
• The one-two punch has left a co-owner worried that her business will collapse.
  — Megan Myers, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2023
• But the forward is still key to the Bulls offense, providing balance to the one-two punch alongside LaVine.
  — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 24 Mar. 2023
• Many of them faced the one-two punch of the Great Financial Crisis and the soaring home prices the remote work boom of the pandemic brough on.
  — Paolo Confino, Fortune, 10 Feb. 2024
• The EcoBoost also chirps its tires on the one-two upshift, which is a fun little flourish.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 7 Sep. 2023
• Dry skin types can layer a hydrating face serum on top for a one-two punch of moisture.
  — Olivia Cigliano, WWD, 26 June 2024
• Moreover, the Brewers have arguably one of the best one-two punches in baseball with Burnes and Brandon Woodruff.
  — Michael Arinze, Chicago Tribune, 30 Mar. 2023
• Koufax, feet together, now to his windup and the one-two pitch: fastball outside, ball two.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2023
• And then came the one-two punch of the pandemic and the devastating earthquake in February of this year.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 25 Aug. 2023
• The guilty pleas completed something of a one-two punch by the Justice Department.
  — Glenn Thrush, New York Times, 21 Nov. 2023
• Editor's tip: Use it in the evenings after the brand's best-selling Retinol Reform serum for a one-two punch against signs of aging.
  — Deanna Pai, Allure, 13 Aug. 2024
• Some of these shorts pair like a clandestine one-two punch and others collide like comedic gunfire.
  — Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2024
• Shallow and presumptuous is some kind of one-two punch.
  — Carolyn Hax, Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2023
• His loss is brutal for the Knicks, who believed Robinson and Hartenstein gave them the best one-two punch at the center spot in all of basketball.
  — Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 1 July 2024
• The one-two punch of the Covid pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine brought fragile supply chains to the breaking point.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 8 June 2023
• For a Reds’ team that’s working to build an identity around working tough at-bats, hustle and hard work, the one-two punch at the top of the Reds’ lineup is setting the tone.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 7 May 2023
• Getty Images Buyers have been facing the painful one-two punch of high mortgage rates and rising home prices all year.
  — Bysydney Lake, Fortune, 28 Nov. 2023
• The stories landed like a one-two punch in The Post newsroom, raising even more alarm and upping the panic level at the newspaper to new heights.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 18 June 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024