Use "thwarted" in a sentence

1. Her good intentions were thwarted almost immediately.

2. 5 We were thwarted at every turn.

3. Thwarted yet wondering, she chopped away with the hoe.

4. But remoteness from the nearest exchange thwarted its efforts.

5. But once again the strange summer weather thwarted us.

6. As an adjective Confounded is confused; thwarted.

7. Increased percentage of illegal access attempts that are thwarted

8. Increased number of illegal access attempts that are thwarted

9. 8 When Adam sinned, Jehovah’s purpose was not thwarted.

10. 17 The guards thwarted his attempt to escape from prison.

11. Arbovirus threats are not easily thwarted by piecemeal efforts

12. So that the plans of the shrewd are thwarted.

13. This revolution, how-ever, was thwarted almost at once.

14. An increase in the number of illegal access attempts that are thwarted

15. Consequently, Stalin's plans were thwarted as Yugoslavia began shifting its alignment.

16. The kidnapper fled to England but was thwarted because England had already banned slavery.

17. People whose appetite for encryption may be thwarted righteously, effectively, and harshly.

18. Efforts to clean up the oil spill have been thwarted by storms.

19. City expansion has increased local property tax revenues and has thwarted some flight to suburbia.

20. But Borrow’s cherished plan to take them to China and distribute them there was thwarted.

21. They were thwarted in their attempt to gain overall control of the company.

22. Dyslexia takes an immense toll in lost productivity, thwarted careers, frustration, depression and other behavioral problems.

23. Synonyms for Baulked include thwarted, frustrated, hindered, foiled, checked, stopped, impeded, blocked, prevented and obstructed

24. The novel's early readers were understandably annoyed at having their narrative expectations constantly thwarted.

25. An attempt to smuggle heroin worth £30 million into the country has been thwarted by customs officials.

26. Divided and thwarted in the 1920's, the various components of progressivism came tentatively together in 19

27. The last months and days of Simon Bolivar, the brilliant and thwarted liberator of South America.

28. God thwarted their scheme by confusing their language and dispersing them to the far corners of the earth.

29. He wants to, but his attempts are thwarted by an old enemy who could harm his wife's business.

30. In addition, they also discussed mechanisms for strengthening cooperation so that terror attacks can be thwarted more effectively.

31. Just this week, police sappers thwarted a car-bomb attack outside the town of Beit Shemesh

32. Thwarted, I walk on and barely have time to savour the moment before bumping into Joe.

33. Jonathan Madden is a would-be twentieth century folly builder who's been thwarted by town planners.

34. L . A . ' s Thwarted Terror Spree The Armanious Family Massacre Terror & Denial ( by Hadayat at LAX )

35. It is Indian secularism, set in stone, that has thwarted Pakistani designs to drive wedges between India’s Hindus and Muslims.

36. A government-run press centre in the tense Presevo valley area bordering Kosovo claimed special police had thwarted the abduction attempt.

37. This is Sofia Ramirez from Fernfield Local News, live on the scene where a sweet robbery has just been thwarted.

38. Coleridge in such cajoling and overwrought spirits was not to be thwarted, and Poole sensibly gave up all further resistance.

39. The assassination attempt on his life had been thwarted and his master plan on the Continent was going exactly to plan.

40. That strategy could be thwarted by a lawsuit challenging expansion financing that is now awaiting review by the state Supreme Court.

41. Just as Jesus thwarted Satan’s advances by recalling appropriate scriptures, when tempted we can recall such texts as Genesis 39:9 and 1 Corinthians 6:18.

42. After initial social media Bragging, Capitol riot suspects now scramble to delete Many of the attempted deletions do not seem to have thwarted investigators

43. An Indian naval ship deployed in the Gulf of Aden has successfully thwarted several piracy attempts and provided security escort to several merchant ships in these waters.

44. Smithers had thwarted my earlier attempt to take candy from a baby, but with him out of the picture, I was free to wallow in my own Crapulence

45. Two attempts by the Japanese to extend their defensive perimeter in the south and central Pacific were thwarted in the battles of Coral Sea (May 1942) and Midway (June 1942).

46. TEHRAN — Iranian Deputy Parliament Speaker Masoud Pezeshkian has said that the Braveries of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) have thwarted the conspiracies hatched by Iran’s enemies.

47. Panchayat secy suspended for Amassing assets Take steps to develop Tamil, forum tells govt Fulfil the funding dream for your startup, here’s how Bid to smuggle 2,300kg ration rice thwarted

48. The arrival of Islam and Nestorian Christians in the 7th century, and the famous Jesuit adaptation to Chinese culture during the 17th century, thwarted by an intransigent Vatican, are part of it.

49. Regina's plan for Mary Margaret is thwarted following Kathryn's sudden re-appearance and Gold becomes wary of August, as flashbacks show what happened to Baelfire after Rumplestiltskin became the Dark One.

50. Crapulence Mean-spirited, mischevious and/or immoral activity (or the mindset that leads to it). Smithers had thwarted my earlier attempt to take candy from a baby, but with him out of the picture, I …

51. It can be argued that the poems were an outlet for the frustration that this talented and capable woman had to endure because of race, but they Allude to thwarted love and loneliness as well.

52. However, competing Circuitously via capacity of having to maintain your Demands within the limits of your very very own pocketbook is very brilliant from Seeing your wishes for authorities advantages thwarted at once through the rival Claims of some other group

53. The doggerel and generally deformed (as you rightly say, hindered, averse, thwarted, delayed, Backwardly) rhythms and rimes, bathos, peculiarity and solecisms, have a double function of being unheimlich while also being--homesickness even at home and at home with homesickness.

54. Bosk had hoped to find the lost city of Zanbar with the help of a genie named Jinny.However, his plans were thwarted when his genie sought the help of the Charmed Ones.He was vanquished by Jinny when she was freed from her bottle.

55. His Government's efforts to combat the abhorrent practice of recruiting child soldiers had however been thwarted by the actions of the terrorist group Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), which in spite of promises made continued to recruit child soldiers; since # had been recruited

56. This was demonstrated at the Battle of Nagashino in 1575, where carefully positioned ashigaru gunners of the Oda and Tokugawa clans thwarted the Takeda clan's repeated heavy cavalry charges against the Oda clan's defensive lines and broke the back of the Takeda war machine.

57. The band's fifth studio album, Origin Of The Alimonies is set out like an opera that, a press release explains, "tells the story of a cosmogonical traumatic explosion between OIOION and SIHEYMN, a pair of divine beings whose thwarted love tears a wound from which civilisation is generated, producing the Four Alimonies

58. ‘It is a Concerted attempt to change the historical trajectory that we've been on of discrimination and affirmative action on behalf of white people in the past.’ ‘A Concerted communist attempt to oust Ross from the railways union was thwarted as a result of lobbying and branch stacking orchestrated by …

59. The live-and-let-live attitude hampered the police in tracking Bushrangers.A few squatters like John Walsh gave the Bushrangers active support, but the police were thwarted as much by the unwillingness of landowners generally to report what they knew about the Bushrangers or to take any active steps against them

60. Simple past tense and past participle of confound··confused, astonished defeated, thwarted 1674, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 50–3: Nine times the Space that measures Day and Night To mortal men, he with his horrid crew Lay vanquisht, rowling in the fiery Gulfe Confounded though immortal: […] damned, accursed, bloody The Confounded

61. She wishes to see all women "dead awaken": "Our struggles can have meaning and our privileges-however precarious under patriarchy-can be justified only if they can help to change the lives of women whose gifts or Abortedand whose very being-continue to be thwarted and silenced" (On L., s., and 71 PAGE 77 S

62. Principal Translations: Inglés: Español: Confounded adj adjective: Describes a noun or pronoun--for example, "a tall girl," "an interesting book," "a big house." (thwarted, frustrated) frustrado/a adj adjetivo: Describe el sustantivo.Puede ser posesivo, numeral, demostrativo ("casa [b]grande[/b]", "mujer [b]alta[/b]").