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    Use "stymie" in a sentence

    stymie example sentences

    stymie


    stymied


    stymieing


    stymies


    1. overnight skin miracle, it will at least stymie the effects of free-radical


    2. He creates online pages and forums to spread spam and false or misleading information meant to confuse or stymie other research projects


    3. Historic allocations of capital, timeliness in the business cycle, and honoring contractual demands can all stymie the best intentions of management


    4. That would stymie any further investigation into her activities


    5. The enduring hatred of the Jews that Muhammad had inculcated in the followers of his cult would forever stymie the psyche of the Arabic towards their cousins in Israel, so it seems


    6. Stymie hears Frenchy's warning as he makes his way in, while carrying and stirring his large pot


    7. Cass asks Stymie what he is planning on making in his pot


    8. Wong notices, and then turns towards Stymie before leaving the “mess galley


    9. Stymie the Stutterer comes out of the “galley’s” kitchen carrying a pot by one of its handle, and using a ladle hooked through the pot’s other handle


    10. Stymie whispers, “Hot, hot, hot,” as he totes the clumsy pot along

    11. The hiding Stymie overhears hears her wonderful compliment from his crouched position under the kitchen counter


    12. But, her ranting causes Stymie to giggle while falling secretly in love with her


    13. Stymie slides a record onto the phonograph he also hid under the counter with him


    14. Stymie covers his smile to stop his blabbering mouth after saying, “Your welc


    15. Stymie begins snoring as the music stops


    16. The Cap gives orders to load all the badly burned victims aboard the boat first The Professor, Stymie, and Cowboy Dan are also part of the first trip to the ship


    17. Stymie makes a necklace out of his


    18. Thoughts such as, “What kind of teacher would stymie a kid’s education, even if the kid used a word incorrectly; the kid’s showing initiative, for crying out loud; a teacher is supposed to laud and spur students to seek knowledge, not shut it down,” occupied Mac’s mind at times the ensuing days


    1. stoked his rage ever since Lady Phyllis stymied him at the auction


    2. “He’d like to, but he’s stymied


    3. What time was it now? Midnight? Maybe the soldiers had been unable to get to the caves at all, had been stymied by the men on the wall or another force beyond their control


    4. The only problem was, what the hell was he supposed to do with it? He found himself totally stymied by that question, which was a little bit unusual for him


    5. The water mounded up, its forward progress stymied, before falling in a rush, away and down both sides of the first level, creating raging whirlpools as eddy currents spun away against the brick facings


    6. If the discipline that brought about those discoveries had been successfully stymied, we would still be seeing them as unfathomable mysteries


    7. Then we would appear to be stymied by the Bio Bio


    8. Most to the press ignores the truth that the federal government was stymied and hampered by the slow state-level requests and approvals (required


    9. own agency after it stymied his attempts to obtain transcripts of


    10. away in a stymied silence

    11. "Aren't there some Protestant churches?" He halted, stymied


    12. wangle it so as to be alive in two places simultaneously, which is the only way that I can see it working? I would seem to be stymied


    13. The Dangler, stymied by the impassibility of the stone wall, began to whistle the same tune as he had when they arrived in the forest


    14. I told him all that I had discovered until that point and he was as stymied as I was


    15. Unfortunately, the administration and the Congress seem to be stymied by missing intelligence


    16. This table should convince the reader that growth in the subsequent year was stymied by


    17. which kind of stymied her, because Mrs


    18. He wanted to say something smart, but “written out of OWG history altogether” had him stymied


    19. What an irony that modern man, engaged as he is in the pursuit of knowledge, allows himself to be stymied by the dogmas of the Dark Ages, perpetrated as religious tenets


    20. The Indian State with its dominant Muslim minority and its shortsighted Constitution was bound to be politically stymied to the hurt of its Hindu majority

    21. More so, only when the educated Hindus familiarize themselves with the ways of Islam to engage the Musalmans in an informed debate would there be a dawn of the genuine secularism in India, but that is unlikely to happen, at least in the foreseeable future, and till that happens, India would remain a stymied state


    22. Though the Indian forces entered the scene and stalled Pakistan’s progress through its proxy rogues into the heart of the valley, yet, stymied by the cease-fire call of the comity of nations, the Indian State couldn’t reclaim all of Kashmir to itself


    23. But whither gone the umma there; what with the shepherds of the faith thus stymied, the Musalmans of the region have no clue either


    24. Embarrassed by her dog’s actions, Kathy awkwardly started to reach for Neo’s collar over her crutches, as she issued these commands, but this action was stymied by Joel, when he clamped his hand onto her shoulder, and steered her firmly towards the family room instead


    25. Perhaps it was his laxity that had stymied the development process


    26. The pack dispersed, once more stymied by the gate and their inability to climb it or unlock it, melting back into the bush as if they had never been there


    27. been stymied in its attempts to negotiate a reasonable water transfer agreement with your


    28. I gathered the food offerings up and was momentarily stymied on how to carry them


    29. and he seemed stymied by his patient’s sudden onset


    30. Hugh, stymied, dropped to his knees and threw

    31. concept of extraterrestrial life has stymied and downplayed some very clear evidence in this


    32. I get the impression he’s sometimes stymied, trying to figure out how to cope with me


    33. Still stymied, I open my eyes and stare around the room


    34. It was evident from the correspondence from Zion that with the heretic navy’s armored riverboats stymied on the line of the north Hildermoss—so far at least—by the demolished locks at Darailys, the Captain General (or at least the Grand Inquisitor) wanted the entire river line south from Darailys held


    35. He goes still, stymied by the subject change


    36. Shareholders are demanding increases in both production and reserves, yet Western oil companies are often stymied in their quest for new oil


    1. Since inflation is a lagging indicator in itself, the Fed must be wary of stymieing business growth


    2. P Singh come a number of scams and corruption, eventually stymieing the development process of the nation


    1. But dawns not reason on the bigoted minds; Inshah Allah, if the child were to pick up the Islamic threads religiously and grow up into a believing musalman, still he would have developed a prejudiced psyche that stymies his awareness in our age of openness


    2. So, they get habituated at seeing things from the pan-Islamic prism, which stymies their Indian vision besides sullying their national image, and sadly for them, there would be incessant alerts of ‘Islam in danger’ from around the world, which keep their psyche forever stressed by their kafir enigma


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    Synonyms for "stymie"

    stymie stymy block blockade embarrass hinder obstruct

    "stymie" definitions

    a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole


    a thwarting and distressing situation


    hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of