Sentence examples for * the petard from inspiring English sources

Thus, Trump's unwillingness to inform himself about these complexities created the petard on which he is now being hoisted.

Shall I fetch the petard, Mr. Haskell?" Elsewhere, your suggestions for the most uncompetitive league in the world centre on Portugal.

Verizon, it seems, put the petard avant le hoist.

Child care is the petard on which fiction and nonfiction writers regularly hoist themselves.

On this reading, the World Service was hoist on the petard of its own, well researched, enthusiasms.

The petard itself was kindled by the 'holy fire,' ignited with pieces of stone from the Holy Sepulchre.

Booing: the one petard guaranteed to hoist opera into the headlines.

For his critics, there may be bleak satisfaction in seeing Kouchner's native country hoisted by the very petard he designed.

The United States of America had been, ever since Kitty Hawk, blindly constructing the elaborate petard by which, sooner or later, it must be hoist.

Let Sansa be in the hoist-petard business: I want to see what happens when Jaime confronts someone he respects again.

Pallas, the man who threw the petards, glories in his crime.