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How to use balked in a sentence

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They may feel that they are balked in making their way through life, that authority figures are preventing them from expressing themselves, etc.
The black and amber brigade again faced into the elements on Friday but on this occasion their opponents were not to be balked.
When they approached their angel backers for more money, the investors balked.
Given his reputation as a carefree character, it is no surprise that he balked at living under the constant scrutiny of Sir Clive's microscope.
The stuck-up brown-nosers in school, the geeks and the nerds, they would have balked.
He may be hardening to win over militants who have balked at formalising a de facto truce.
She had balked, not stupid enough to go to his turf, alone, so he could do her bodily harm.
The bandolero caught up the packhorse's leadrope but the packhorse balked and squatted on its haunches.
The already skittish horse balked at the sudden change in direction, but Katherine fought with it impatiently.
Then, not long ago, Elektra balked at advancing money for Ween to record a new album.
Nevertheless, I balked at the suggestion that I should wear my khimar back in Japan.
Then they came to confiscate the film but balked because the soundman looked huge and surly.
He nudged Cochise towards the sound but the pinto out and out balked and refused to take another step.
There was a boggy place in the road but we could go through it as long as neither horse in the team balked.
When Hayes balked at giving up her child, she claims Romney threatened she could be excommunicated if she refused.
But as the boy reached the age of maturity and the boyhood locks were shorn from his head, she balked at the prospect of yielding the throne to this half-royal heir.
They sought to renegotiate the terms of the funding being promised by the bank, which balked at the radical changes proposed and exited from the deal.
After the Civil War, small-arms technology evolved rapidly, but a penurious Congress and an intractable ordnance board balked at rearming an entire army.
Mike: Given Vinnie's rather emphatic theme here, am disappointed he finally balked at the knotted hankie.
Like her, Katie is ruthless, tough, unbending, but I suspect even Thatcher would have balked at some of Katie's jibes about her rivals.
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Examples from Classical Literature
So far I have not balked at anything but he has had the consideration not to direct me to the mountains.
The skeptic is resolute in unmasking the fraud, but finds himself balked by intangibility.
But the real religious leader who loves boys will not be balked by the pettiness and inability of denominationalism.
But buntline was not to be balked in this way, and asked Nixon what he would rent the theater one week for.
The men that have solved greater problems in the past will not be balked by these.
Duerot has tried his hardest to sup in Lagny, and has been balked by German valour.
And so Marishka, once more balked in her enterprise, went back to the harim.
But they found that their birds had flown again, and that the King had been balked a second time.
But it was too late, the sea devil was too near to be balked of the prey.
Into the Chinese mind the Japanese went on where we were balked by the obstacle of incomprehension.
Hugh Ritson was hardly the man to be balked by such impediments.
The Jesuits were quite balked by those Indians who, being burned at the stake, suggested new modes of torture to their tormentors.
Cosham demanded, afraid lest she should be balked of her priceless discovery, a young man truly devoted to literature.
We idealize in fancy because our idealizations in fact are balked.
He goes on where we are balked by the obstacles of incomprehension.
The party returned to camp, balked of their revenge, but still more grievously balked of their supper.
Our machine balked this morning when she took the turntable, didnt she?
Might be the fellow balked me this morning with that horsey woman.
The boss of a Japanese targe could not have balked it more cleverly.
Within the administration, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger balked at requiring all of his department's employees and contractors to sign the secrecy agreements.
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