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30 example sentences for THWART, such as:

1. Thus, he aided reaction and thwarted progress.
2. He laid himself down under the thwarts and waited, panting.
3. He felt that everyone was trying to thwart his plans and prevent his success.
4. Broken oars and floating thwarts entangle them, and the ebbing wave sucks their feet away.
5. Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes.

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 Meanings and Examples of THWART
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
thwart
 v.  hinder or prevent of ; frustrate
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1  He had lighted with such energy upon a thwart of his boat that his ivory leg had received a half-splintering shock.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 106. Ahab's Leg.
2  Edna's desire to see Mademoiselle Reisz had increased tenfold since these unlooked-for obstacles had arisen to thwart it.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XX
3  Led by three young Black Minorca pullets, the hens made a determined effort to thwart Napoleon's wishes.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
4  Having resolved on flight Eustacia at times seemed anxious that something should happen to thwart her own intention.
Return of the Native By Thomas Hardy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: 7 The Night of the Sixth of November
5  When Turnus sees the Latins broken and fainting in the thwart issue of war, his promise claimed for fulfilment, and men's eyes pointed on him, his own spirit rises in unappeasable flame.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
6  Then I bid leave the harbour and sit down at the thwarts; emulously my comrades strike the water, and sweep through the seas.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK THIRD
7  Haste and awake, O men, and sit down to the thwarts; shake out sail speedily.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FOURTH
8  They sit down at the thwarts, and their arms are tense on the oars; at full strain they wait the signal, while throbbing fear and heightened ambition drain their riotous blood.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
9  The Fire-god rages with loose rein over thwarts and oars and hulls of painted fir.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
10  The rest repair the thwarts and replace the ships' timbers that the flames had gnawed upon, and fit up oars and rigging, little in number, but alive and valiant for war.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK FIFTH
11  Next he routs out the souls that sate on the long benches, and clears the thwarts, while he takes mighty Aeneas on board.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK SIXTH
12  Broken oars and floating thwarts entangle them, and the ebbing wave sucks their feet away.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TENTH
13  He laid himself down under the thwarts and waited, panting.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
14  Draw lines of crime, of incompetency, of vice, as tightly and uncompromisingly as you will, for these things must be proscribed; but a color-line not only does not accomplish this purpose, but thwarts it.
The Souls of Black Folk By W. E. B. Du Bois
Context  Highlight   In IX
15  Because she hated herself, she hated them all with the fury of the thwarted and humiliated love of sixteen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
Example Sentence:
1  The same principles of deception and misdirection, albeit on a much smaller scale, are now starting to be used by some organisations to thwart malicious hackers keen to establish a bridgehead on internal networks.
2  Slew of anti-abortion laws may thwart Zika research.
3  He felt that everyone was trying to thwart his plans and prevent his success.
4  Thus, he aided reaction and thwarted progress.