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Example sentences for: foiled

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Bemused reporters wondered how the legendarily effective agency had been foiled so easily.
They were foiled when French anti-terrorist commandos stormed the jet as it was parked and killed the terrorists.
Many well-known figures contemplating their posthumous selves have been foiled in exercising control over their literary remains.
On the lookout for any contagiously progressive movement, the Austrians helped Bourbon King Ferdinand of Naples crush an 1821 revolt for constitutional monarchy and foiled a similar uprising in Piedmont.
I'm impressed with how effortlessly Rowling balances the genre requirements of predictability--Harry will prevail, the school year will end, Voldemort will be foiled (but only temporarily!)--and surprise.