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Example sentences for: stymie

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

He's managed to stymie the Congress."
It has used suits and lobbying and more suits to stymie previous efforts to restrict it.
Susan Cohen of the Alan Guttmacher Institute explains that accepting abortion restrictions would stymie efforts to set up effective family-planning branches in the developing world.
While lowering fisheries' effort seems the most logical approach to the recovery of depleted fisheries, social and economic concerns often stymie political action.
1. To betray, cheat, destroy, reject, ruin, sabotage, stymie, swindle, terminate, wreck: Churchill tried to fxxx the deal on the second front.