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
• Running for his life most of the game, Hurts was largely stymied on the ground and through the air.
  — Arkansas Online, 30 Dec. 2019
• His goals of swift withdrawals in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan have been stymied.
  — Jill Colvin, The Denver Post, 7 Oct. 2019
• The earlier editions of the Apple Watch were stymied with a watch face that was dark much of the time.
  — Jefferson Graham, USA TODAY, 17 Dec. 2019
• Health officials are urging for those who can stay home to do so, to help stymie the spread of the virus.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Mar. 2020
• 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
• Long-term loss of that ethos could stymie Chicago’s tech startup scene.
  — Ally Marotti, chicagotribune.com, 20 Aug. 2020
• 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
• But what if two of the most profound challenges stymieing businesses can be solved in one fell swoop?
  — Marc Zao-Sanders, Quartz at Work, 1 Nov. 2019
• 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
• Peter King wrote last week that Dalton's salary has stymied the Bengals' efforts to trade him.
  — Dave Clark, Cincinnati.com, 1 Apr. 2020
• Mitchell played with more aggression in the second half, but the Sun continued to stymie the Fever offense.
  — Akeem Glaspie, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Aug. 2020
• 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
• Also in flux is whether the disruption from the outbreak will stymie efforts to end the flying ban by midyear.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 6 Apr. 2020
• 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
• But his effort to ban transgender troops from the military has been stymied by federal courts.
  — Tom Vanden Brook, USA Today, 23 Apr. 2025
• While Trump claims to love the art of the deal, the administration’s economic policies have ironically stymied Zaslav’s dealmaking plans.
  — Alex Sherman, CNBC, 17 Apr. 2025