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Example sentences for: stymied

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There, they attempt to repair their broken spaceship but are stymied by the hook-nosed owner of the local parts shop--Watto--who also happens to have a thick Yiddish accent!
In both towers, civilians who were able to reach the stairs and descend were also stymied by the deviations in the stairways and by smoke doors.
I am interested in what Safire has to say about language but find myself stymied: I get the feeling that he has deliberately created a minefield of interruptions in thought through which I must pick my way to the end.
(Addicts Shakur and Tim Roth want to kick their habit but are stymied by unhelpful social-service workers.)
In short, it's the perfect purchase or gift for those among us with bare kitchen bookshelves and larger culinary ambitions that dwell in latency, stymied by a grave--though common--psychological flaw: being unable to commit to a single technique or ethnic cuisine at a time.