Sample Sentences for
stymie
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    After his attempt to depart the wilderness was stymied by the Teklanika's high flow, McCandless arrived back at the bus on July 8.  (source)
    stymied = stopped
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    And for a moment he was stymied.  (source)
    stymied = stopped (prevented from making progress)
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    Momentarily stymied, Harry watched Ginny Weasley playing with Arnold the Pygmy Puff for a while before seeing a way around this objection.  (source)
    stymied = stopped
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    "Of course you are," murmured Go, who had a long-stymied mission to turn me into a rebel.  (source)
    stymied = so far unsuccessful
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    I jumped to the phone again, only to be met with that impasse which more often than not throughout life seems to stymie people at moments of extreme crisis.†  (source)
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    Take girls to the movies—he was done stymieing himself on that front—and figure out a course of study.†  (source)
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    Stymied at the very instant of decisive action, the general expressed his exasperation with the fecklessness of civilians, walked into the prelate's apartment, and tossed the goose out the window.  (source)
    Stymied = stopped
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    I assumed the handle alone would stymie the wolves, not having opposable thumbs.†  (source)
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    He is stymied. For days, Enrique has been stuck in Nuevo Laredo, on the southern bank of the Rao Bravo, as it is called here.  (source)
    stymied = prevented from making progress
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    Apparently sensing Langdon's stymie, Vittoria turned to the docent, who was now inching away.†  (source)
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    But a start was all they had, for even after a long discussion, the children were left stymied.†  (source)
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    Stymied for the moment, Puller called the hospital where the motel owner Louisa had been taken.†  (source)
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    Incredibly, a breakdown in communications has stymied the hospital's emergency response.†  (source)
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