Sentence examples for derailed my from inspiring English sources

The call lasted more than an hour and derailed my morning.

"I must say I found it strange dealing with the very people who a few years ago nearly derailed my career progression plans," he says.

I was torn between the desire to show how well I was dealing with things and the imperative to show that I was not O.K., that this man's actions had derailed my life in a thousand ways.

Some 20 years after I first walked through the revolving doors of a north London psychiatric unit, it is worth looking back and considering what, if anything, might have prevented the breakdown that derailed my life so spectacularly that two decades later I cannot imagine who or what or where I might now be had it never happened.

As a wedding gift, she gave Spector a trousseau of canonical British books that he had never had occasion to read: "The End of the Affair," "Sons and Lovers," "The Rainbow," "Persuasion," and George Eliot's "Middlemarch" — the fact that he had failed to read the last, she said with a laugh, "nearly derailed my marriage".

And then something rather unexpected derailed my plans.

A survivor emerged from the wreckage and tweeted: "Thanks a lot for derailing my train.

One big punch, stray elbow, unlucky injury or a sudden bout of sickness could derail my chances.

"I was bitter, I was sad, I was definitely still looking, but the fact I kept seeing this place was derailing my hunt," she said.

That fact is now totally irrelevant to this situation, but if you dare try to derail my small-talk momentum again I will BURY you!

It doesn't matter!" I'd just spent 10 minutes stutteringly explaining something I thought was about to derail my life in Kabul: I was transgender.