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• The police thwarted the would-be assassin.
• Our plans for a picnic were thwarted by the thunderstorm.
• The proposals of the one never thwarted the inclinations of the other.
• Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[...]Next day she[...]tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
• More than a mere source of Promethean sustenance to thwart the cold and cook one's meat, wood was quite simply mankind's first industrial and manufacturing fuel.
• Everton were now firmly on the back foot and it required some sharp work from Johnny Heitinga and Phil Jagielka to thwart Walcott and Thomas Vermaelen.
• An arrow thwarts the air.
• Swift as a shooting star / In autumn thwarts the night.
• A well made doughout canoe rarely needs a thwart.
• The fisherman sat on the aft thwart to row.
• Moved contrary with thwart obliquities.
• Intel Corp., the world’s biggest computer-chip maker, was fined a record 1.06 billion euros ($1.45 billion) by the European Union and ordered to stop using illegal rebates to thwart competitors.