Sentence examples for the petard from inspiring English sources

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

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

His healthy contempt for conventional schooling is wonderfully betrayed by John Patrick Norman McHennessy in The Boy Who Was Always Late, where a stick-wielding teacher is hoist on the petard of his own literal-mindedness.

Then though, unlikely as it should be, comes the doomsday scenario that will always haunt England and their supporters, the Adelaide spectre, for having made much of the running in the match it is they who are the only side that can lose, hoist, in a way, on the petard of their own heady first innings run-rate.

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

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

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.

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

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

"Well, he is now being hoisted on that petard because Russia does not have the money to have a strong military".

Ironically, Governor Wilson himself was hoist by his own petard the year after his re-election.