How to Use stymie in a Sentence

stymie

verb

• Progress on the project has been stymied by lack of money.
• The Ukrainians aim to stymie the Russians in the east and probe in the south in search of a breakthrough.
  — Matthew Luxmoore, WSJ, 28 Aug. 2022
• That could stymie successful growth, or even lead to death.
  — WIRED, 31 Oct. 2022
• How are those counties trying to stymie those projects?
  — Dana Taylor, USA TODAY, 23 Feb. 2024
• And can the Niners' league-beating defense stymie any threat from the Falcons?
  — Chronicle Staff, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Oct. 2022
• Those divides have largely stymied the push for Supreme Court reform to date.
  — Justin Jouvenal, Washington Post, 23 July 2024
• That was later stymied by the Bank of Canada's decision to raise rates.
  — WSJ, 7 June 2023
• Alex Kennedy was able to stymie the Dragons by faking which side or which hitter the ball was going to.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Oct. 2021
• Patzer pushed for 15 years to jump-start the data collection process but said she was stymied by red tape.
  — Ben Tanen, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2024
• Caskey stymied a Heritage Christian rally in the fourth quarter with a layup, then put it to bed with back-to-back trips to the line.
  — Brian Haenchen, The Indianapolis Star, 12 Jan. 2024
• What is Utah doing to prevent or stymie the size of that catastrophe?
  — Jeff Parrott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 31 Dec. 2021
• In pass protection, Sewell has the anchor to stymie power and the range to mirror speed rushers on the edge.
  — John Owning, Dallas News, 16 Apr. 2021
• The Celtics didn’t make enough defensive adjustments and they were stymied by the 76ers zone defense in the second half.
  — Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 2 May 2023
• The search for long Covid treatments has been stymied by the lack of a biomarker, something that doctors can test for or measure.
  — Aj Willingham, CNN, 26 May 2023
• Jackson-Davis’ presence inside — a new wrinkle to the matchup — could help stymie Sabonis at the rim.
  — Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 14 Apr. 2024
• Grant’s foul trouble helped stymie the Pistons’ upset bid.
  — Callie Caplan, Dallas News, 21 Apr. 2021
• Some worry that a burst of inflation will lead the Fed to raise rates and thereby stymie the recovery.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 1 May 2021
• Saline took its second drive down to the Brighton 23, but Evan Daily came up with a big third-down sack of Carr for a loss of 7 yards to stymie the scoring threat.
  — Brad Emons, Detroit Free Press, 25 Aug. 2023
• Something has cropped up each week to stymie its momentum.
  — Steve Reaven, chicagotribune.com, 11 Sep. 2021
• The vaccine is now the third approved for use in the United States, adding another tool to help stymie the Covid-19 pandemic.
  — Theresa MacHemer, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Mar. 2021
• Macron — who faces a threat from the far right ahead of the presidential election next year — has used the bill to stymie divisive rhetoric.
  — NBC News, 29 Mar. 2021
• Evers, meanwhile, faced the same GOP control, but the party used it to stymie many of his initiatives.
  — D.l. Davis, Journal Sentinel, 17 Oct. 2022
• Moore testified that such treatments near Lake Tahoe helped stymie the spread of the Caldor fire last month, saving homes and lives.
  — Los Angeles Times, 29 Sep. 2021
• Both offenses were stymied without points on either side in the first and third quarters.
  — Ledeai, Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2023
• In the decades since, plans for a two-state solution have repeatedly been stymied.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 22 May 2024
• While this number was thankfully far lower than the thousands who died in the 79 C.E. eruption, the event stymied the Games, which were moved to London.
  — Ellen Wexler, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Aug. 2024
• The case has the potential to stymie future legal challenges to those efforts.
  — Jeannie Suk Gersen, The New Yorker, 27 June 2021
• Gwynns Falls and Leakin parks (there’s a seamless connection between these two greenswards) stymied the highway builders 50-plus years ago.
  — Jacques Kelly, Baltimore Sun, 3 Aug. 2024
• Franchise relocations require the support of 75% of the sport's 30 franchise owners, and in the past, such moves have been stymied by turf wars related to attendance or TV rights.
  — David Faris, theweek, 25 Nov. 2024
• These sanctions stymied Huawei’s telecommunications and consumer electronics business, forcing it to suspend products and spin off parts of the company to stay alive.
  — Alena Botros, Fortune Asia, 1 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024