Sentence examples for a thwart from inspiring English sources

With a hand on a thwart, and your feet slowly kicking, you could breathe normally, see normally, talk abnormally, and wait indefinitely for a change of mood.

You rose slowly to miss bumping your head on a thwart, and then your eyes, nose, mouth were in air, among chain-link streaks of white and amber light.

Tie it to a thwart on the canoe so it won't be lost it if you dump.

Crystal structure of a thwarted mismatch glycosylase DNA repair complex.

Or use a different word, like "a thwarted legislative proposal".

Some critics saw the film as a thwarted mess.

Initially, he displays the incandescent fury of a thwarted killer.

But he picked Sharky, a thwarted, internalized character.

Julie Parker, a spokeswoman for the county police, described the events as a "thwarted terror threat".

A sullen Greece, led by a thwarted Syriza, would risk reinforcing that narrative, not change it.

Flaubert and Nightingale had arrived with a thwarted sense of destiny.