Example sentences for: stymie

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

  • Though rapidly changing technology and the freebooters who run offshore casinos will likely stymie any new legislation, that won't stop the feds from trying.

  • He's managed to stymie the Congress."

  • Much more than high wages (which a profitable enterprise can bear), such work rules are what stymie the continent's economies, with overall Western European unemployment now at 10.

  • 1. To betray, cheat, destroy, reject, ruin, sabotage, stymie, swindle, terminate, wreck: Churchill tried to fxxx the deal on the second front.

  • 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.


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