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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The opening quarter went to the Clippers as their ferocious paint defense and rebounding stymied many of Old Rochester’s drives.
  — Erik Anderson, Boston Herald, 15 Mar. 2025
• Russian advance stymied Ukrainian forces have stalled the Russian offensive in the eastern Donetsk region in recent months and have started to win back small patches of land, according to Ukrainian soldiers and military analysts.
  — arkansasonline.com, 11 Mar. 2025