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Example sentences for: thwarted

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Gordon thwarted him by slowing down so Earnhardt couldn't get enough distance to find an angle and shoot past him.
Students trying to storm the embassy were thwarted by Iranian troops.
And his last-minute pardon of Weinberger, Poindexter, and others, after he'd lost re-election, effectively thwarted Walsh's pursuit of Bush himself, among others.
At the impeachment hearing last Friday, Barney Frank, D-Mass., tried to spring the perjury trap, but Starr thwarted him by repeating that he didn't do any illegal leaking (he didn't add "by my definition") and that he couldn't discuss the matter because it was "under seal" (he didn't add "at my request").
This "ornamental culture" is like a perpetual twilight of adolescence; it is a thwarted adulthood.