Sentence examples for thwarted are from inspiring English sources

The people who were let go, or feel thwarted, are more tortured about him.

Middle-class housing activists, who are starting to feel their ambitions for life thwarted, are put back in their box.

"The spontaneous ardor of a love crowned and not thwarted is essentially of short duration.

She's thwarted; he's emasculated.

"Even when they were thwarted there was a sense they'd done something.

When she found out why her purchase was thwarted, she was puzzled.

The plot involved a 300 pound car bomb, but it was thwarted after being defused by security forces.

Now, if you'll excuse me, my canoe thwarts are calling.

But their efforts could be thwarted if repeal is certified before the legislation is finalized this fall.

Environmentalists, thwarted legislatively, are scoring big gains technologically.

"In our history more actions have been thwarted than have been successful," she says.