Sentence examples for the petard of from inspiring English sources

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

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.

Thus, Trump's unwillingness to inform himself about these complexities created the petard on which he is now being hoisted.

Child care is the petard on which fiction and nonfiction writers regularly hoist themselves.

On the other side is a whitewashed cast of body as if it is foisted on the petard with a rubbed out pattern of an American flag in the back ground.

The petard itself was kindled by the 'holy fire,' ignited with pieces of stone from the Holy Sepulchre.

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

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

Anyone who has tired of hearing more than 20 years of relentless attacks on public education, dating back to the Reagan administration report on "A Nation At Risk," could be forgiven the temptation to gloat last week, when the critics were hoisted with their own petard of standardized testing.

It has been fascinating to watch the televised right being hoist on their own petard of crude generalisation.