How to Use thwart in a Sentence

thwart

verb

• The army thwarted the attempt at a coup.
• She did all she could to thwart his plans.
• But what if your smart home isn't smart enough to thwart thieves?
  — Sara Rodrigues, House Beautiful, 19 Dec. 2018
• To thwart the constitution and the orders of the court.
  — Leila Atassi, cleveland, 19 Apr. 2022
• The data is out there, and thieves may use it in ways that freezes cannot thwart.
  — Ron Lieber, The Seattle Times, 8 Sep. 2017
• The set, the props, the lighting and the sound thwart the performers at every turn.
  — Charles McNulty, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• Tabarez was full of praise for the way in which his side thwarted the hosts' game plan.
  — SI.com, 26 June 2018
• But the coup that ousted the president may thwart both those aims in the short term.
  — Washington Post, 20 Aug. 2020
• That helped thwart the efforts by guards to get the inmates off the roof, the reports show.
  — Jason Stein, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Oct. 2017
• The Royals had a chance in the eighth inning but were thwarted by a close play.
  — Maria Torres, kansascity, 10 June 2018
• In all, 250 civilians died that night, but the coup was thwarted.
  — Umar Farooq, latimes.com, 13 July 2019
• The swarm threat has been around a while now, and the United States has been looking for ways to thwart it.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 27 Aug. 2018
• But there’s more than thwarted love out there in the world for a young man to explore.
  — Richard Lawson, Vanity Fair, 12 May 2017
• To thwart them, make small cages around the bulbs from chicken wire, then bury the bulb inside them.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2022
• Why would phages acquire a system that evolved to thwart them?
  — Bymitch Leslie, science.org, 23 Nov. 2022
• To thwart them, the staff faked a Covid-19 outbreak, hid equipment and spied for Ukrainian forces.
  — Ian Lovett, WSJ, 25 Nov. 2022
• As the king’s men tried to guide him to safety in one of the board’s four corners, taflmen worked to thwart the escape.
  — Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 June 2020
• The state makes news for its attempts to thwart or counter the teaching of evolution in the classroom.
  — al, 8 Dec. 2019
• And give credit to the A's defense, which made plays that thwarted rallies and saved runs.
  — Jeff Wilson, star-telegram, 5 Apr. 2018
• This wouldn’t be the first time Manchin and Sinema would thwart Democrats’ progressive plans.
  — The Editors, National Review, 24 July 2023
• The problem is not that her campaign was thwarted by dirty tricks.
  — Monitor Editors, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2017
• Banks sometimes hide the devices in stacks of bills in an effort to thwart robberies.
  — David Hernandez, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Nov. 2021
• The heroic attempt to thwart such a heist ends in catastrophe.
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 11 June 2019
• But some argue that even an unused gun can thwart crime.
  — Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 Oct. 2017
• Efforts to reach the men by air throughout the week were thwarted because of high winds, the park service said.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 6 June 2019
• It has been thwarted too much by the way our bureaucracy has worked over the past 15 years.
  — ABC News, 4 Feb. 2024
• The move is intended to thwart tax fraud and identity theft.
  — Matthew Humphries, PCMAG, 7 Feb. 2022
• An airline that might react quickly to thwart a new start-up may have their eye off the ball for a while.
  — Ben Baldanza, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
• But a growing call to thwart these efforts has been taking hold.
  — Char Adams, NBC News, 17 Oct. 2023
• The court rejected Paxton's bid to thwart the will of voters.
  — Clara Hendrickson, Detroit Free Press, 31 May 2022

Last Updated: 9 May 2024