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Example sentences for: foiled

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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.
Bemused reporters wondered how the legendarily effective agency had been foiled so easily.
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.
The two films cited most often are Heathers , in which Christian Slater is foiled in an attempt to detonate his school, and The Basketball Diaries , in which Leonardo DiCaprio fantasizes about gunning down his classmates and a priest Terminator -style while his buddies cheer.