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How to use thwarted in a sentence

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His intention to become ordained was thwarted when he was exposed as an agnostic and his religious scepticism caused suspicion in the university.
They successfully conquered East Anglia, but were thwarted by the first range of hills.
When he reached the penalty area he drove the ball low to the home keeper's left only to be thwarted by an excellent save.
Competition thwarted this cartel when members reneged on the deal, exceeding their quotas.
A gang which tried to mug a Selby woman in broad daylight was thwarted when her dog leapt to her defence.
Though Sullivan, timing his run from the wing to perfection, appeared to have chipped the ball over Shelley, a superb late tackle thwarted him.
After another thwarted attempt at discourse, she finally snaps that he can't keep playing games with her.
So people's goal attainment is being thwarted and they lash our verbally or physically.
He believes the Government has done a lot of work behind the scenes in the past four years to make sure future fuel protests were thwarted.
He ran on to the rebound, but again he was thwarted as the keeper back-pedalled furiously to complete his solo stand.
A gentleman, however, had the presence of mind to stand beside the till, and though all was confusion, the schemers were thwarted.
In 1836-1837, her career as a schoolmistress thwarted by ill health, she suffered a nervous breakdown.
Once again I was thwarted in my attempt to understand how to tune in to the audio on the bank of TVs mounted above the treadmills.
We thought that the latest attack might be thwarted by the machines' own faulty mathematics.
A criticism levelled at Inveraray is that the attacking thrust is often thwarted by over-elaboration among the forwards.
York played on the break and came closest to breaking the deadlock when Carter was thwarted by an excellent save.
My previous scheme was to auction off a date with me to this event on EBay, but now I am thwarted.
Although stardom beckoned at an early age, Michael was initially thwarted in his desire to act.
This has frustrated the restaurant entrepreneur somewhat and thwarted him from rolling out more establishments.
And they succeeded as Garner's final save thwarted Lee Canoville in the closing seconds.
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Examples from Classical Literature
He is a gracious nobleman, and kind of heart, save when he is thwarted or angered.
To be thwarted and outgeneralled is what this black-browed man can illy bear.
He sounded the clacker till his arm ached, and at length his heart grew sympathetic with the birds' thwarted desires.
A lifetime of narrow, unstimulating years and thwarted instincts had made age treat her ill.
The Soviet effort to capture Berlin by blockade was thwarted by the courageous Allied airlift.
Sulkiness at being thus thwarted replaced her earlier attempt at amenability.
Yet something new, inexplicable, thwarted her and changed the simplicity of her passion.
As if the spell had been thwarted, I followed the melodious adagio of her footsteps.
The soporific, thwarted in its effect for a moment, redoubled its power over him.
Having twice been thwarted by vampire hunter Blade, the bloodsucker leaders decide to resurrect Dracula.
His thwarted desires of yesterday were the despots of his wits.
Birmingham midfielder Chris Burke shot over shortly after the interval, Randolph having thwarted Lua Lua moments earlier.
Turcoman was a brother to Turquoise, and Arab, who thwarted Day by a head on the owner's favourite Monody, was a daughter of Zeal.
The raiders tried to escape through the front door but were thwarted by a mortise lock.
These able men found their plans thwarted by the indifference of the public, and often by open hostility.
A KNIFEMAN who attacked six people during a 90-minute rampage was thwarted by a brave grandfather armed only with a spirit level.
At Surat, however, the British were thwarted by the Portuguese.
They became the abhorrence of traitors whose crimes they thwarted.
But even from this vantage ground he found his purpose thwarted.
Four days after police said they had thwarted the alleged plot, airlines warned that cancellations and disruptions showed no sign of easing.
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