Sentence examples for got thwarted from inspiring English sources

"He thought of his plans to go away and be someone and how they got thwarted, his mother finding the letter, begging him to stay, saying that if he left what would happen, their little farm would be chopped up, like in a butcher's shop, different people getting different cuts, strangers crossing in front of the kitchen window.

When that expectation gets thwarted, when mothers aren't cared for by the child they prefer, they are more apt to suffer depression, the researchers had earlier found.

The loyalists are watching new suitors get thwarted in their attempts to buy the team by the landlord, SMG, which manages the arena for the county and refuses to rework a lease that pays the Islanders none of the revenues from parking and concessions and only a third of the advertising revenue.

In a way, this show almost has no plot because every moment of plot progress gets thwarted by another plot event.

At the 10,400-acre Dupont State Forest, you can see where Katniss gets thwarted by a forest fire, and where the wounded Peeta is discovered at Triple Falls.

And what did you get by thwarting her attempts to be a do-right woman (other than a couple of hot-fudge sundaes that nobody wanted)?

And if the US gets to thwart China in the bargain, all the better.

So firm, in fact, that developers who had with good reason been thwarted got together with Scottish Office civil servants to deny Prosser the customary second five-year term.

But, once we get into the thwarted passion of the eponymous bellringer for Esmeralda, my interest started to wane.

Saili's break past Mike Fitzgerald would have finished with a try but for Betham's tackle and when Saili broke out of his 22, Adam Thompstone got back to thwart Simon Zebo.

She learned to distrust authority and got good at thwarting it.