Sentence examples for a thwarted from inspiring English sources

CORRECTION: This article initially misstated that the AP's May 2012 report was about a thwarted CIA plot, rather than a CIA-thwarted plot.

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".

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

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

Like Benét, Patterson attributed Dickinson's seclusion and poetry to a thwarted romance.

The prospect of a thwarted legacy focusses any retired Justice's mind.

But I don't think Granny ever felt that she'd lived a thwarted life.