Sentence example with the word 'thwart'

thwart

across, biased, cast down, contravene, crossway, discomfit, frustrate, neutralize, restrain, stop, transversely

Definition n. a crosspiece spreading the gunnels of a boat

Last update: January 20, 2016


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They are executing a plan to thwart his speech.   [verb]

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Ram's work was thwarted constantly.   [Please select]

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If we cannot, then a Conservative party finally showing signs of regrouping after a decade of disarray could yet thwart our ambitions.   [Please select]

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And Faith, who had thwarted him with Dolly, and been from the first his enemy, now would have to weep and wail, and waste her youth in constancy.   [Please select]

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This union is thwarted by the passions.   [Please select]

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In her is forming the being who continues us, and this holy work is thwarted and rendered painful.   [Please select]

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"I never heard of such a scheme," said Morton, "and therefore I could not thwart it."   [Please select]

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But now return, keep thine eyes open and inform me at once if Amasis, as is possible, should attempt to thwart the conspiracy against Phanes.   [Please select]

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'My brother is unjust,' she said, 'because he can bear no interruption that seems to thwart his loyal zeal.'   [Please select]

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