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Example sentences for: frustrate

How can you use “frustrate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

“Dictionary definitions are not always helpful to the court, and slavish adherence to these should be avoided if the result is to frustrate the intention of the legislation,” he said.
Gradually, spike one's guns came to mean `frustrate the enemy by blocking his intended plan of action.
North Korean security officials say autopsies revealed vinyl sheeting, magnets, large nails, and the like in the animals' stomachs, and call the gift "a despicable trick in a bid to hinder and frustrate nongovernmental cooperation between the North and South."
Almost every paper has a different angle: the Journal notes that the announcement will frustrate efforts to prevent North Korea from testing its own missiles; the NYT says the announcement was done in tandem with a harsh public critique of the United States for selling military technology to Taiwan; the Post puts the missile test in the ninth paragraph of a larger story on increased sorties over the Taiwan Strait by Chinese and Taiwanese military jets.
The paper added, "The fundamental concern must be whether or not it is actually true that Microsoft can command this market in a fashion that will frustrate innovation."