Example sentences for: thwarting

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

  • Christine Todd Whitman, refers either to your ability to make up your own joke, or to Hillary Clinton's thwarting the governor from shaking hands with newly arriving Kosovo refugees.

  • And it's suggested that the current goal of thwarting Saddam's ability to wage chemical and biological warfare is far more nebulous than 1991's objective of throwing Saddam out of Kuwait.

  • Julia Roberts is back--albeit to mixed reviews--as a malicious schemer intent on thwarting her ex-lover's engagement.

  • The military leader Jan Sobieski defeated Turkish troops at the Battle of Chocim in 1673, and Sobieski would later be credited with saving Vienna from Turkish forces (and thwarting the Ottoman Empire’s designs on Western Europe).

  • Republicans reply that they're serving their country by debunking and thwarting a bad policy administered by a bad president.


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