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• But the cameras were stymied; the shaft of muscle was just a fast moving blackety blur.2021, Sailor Sim, Outward Browned: The Book Girl. From the entry blackedy
• Satan is absolutely stymied when a believer pleads the blood of Jesus.2004, Wallace Shows, The Revelation of Jesus Christ, page 194. From the entry plead the blood of Jesus
• Hussein - except when they're stymied by a mononymic celeb like Cher or Eminem.2002 November 17, Jan Freeman, “Call him Saddam”, in Boston Globe, archived from the original on 14 Jan 2012. From the entry mononymic
• But when husbands stonewall, remember, it triggers flooding in their wives, who feel completely stymied.1996, Daniel Goleman, “Intimate Enemies”, in Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ, paperback edition, London: Bloomsbury…. From the entry stonewall
• Judges were often stymied in settling cases because both parties could cite good law.1986, Stanley Chodorow, Hans Wilhelm Gatzke, Conrad Schirokauer, A History of the World, volume 1, page 221. From the entry good law
• And yet we’re stymied by the challenge of building affordable housing for what amounts to six stadiumsful of people.2011, J. R. Dunn, Death by Liberalism: The Fatal Outcome of Well-Meaning Liberal Policies, Broad Side, →ISBN, page 124. From the entry stadiumful
• Other fearful flyers are stymied by territory-boundedness—an unadventurous spirit.1972, Cosmopolitan, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 108, column 1. From the entry psychocentric
• His only trouble is that he's stymied unless he has his speech with him and can read it.1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, “I AND XII”, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC. From the entry speech
• French expression,” I explained, “meaning that we're stymied good and proper with no hope of finding a formula.”1960, P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter XIV. From the entry impasse
• At the heart of that was McTominay, using his physicality to break down Spanish momentum, and his reading of the game to stymie their attacks.28 March 2023, Graeme McGarry, “Scott McTominay earns place in history as Scotland stun Spain”, in The Herald. From the entry physicality
• But stymied by a rockband, you are forced to traverse left instead, following cairns to gain the fire road between two large cairns.2012, Gillean Daffern's Kananaskis Country, fourth, →ISBN, page 31. From the entry rockband
• In other words, opsigns and sonsigns stymie the seamless flow of actual image to actual image; while the hyalosign links the actual image to a virtual correlate.2016, David Dreamer, Deleuze’s Cinema Books: Three Introductions to the Taxonomy of Images., Edinburgh University Press, page 145. From the entry hyalosign

Meaning of stymie

1. noun A situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).
2. noun An obstacle or obstruction.
3. verb To thwart or stump; to cause to fail or to leave hopelessly puzzled, confused, or stuck.

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Questions about stymie in a sentence

How do you use stymie in a sentence?

Stymie is used as a noun and verb. For example: “They had lost the key, and the lock stymied the first three locksmiths they called.”

What is a short sentence with stymie?

“Other fearful flyers are stymied by territory-boundedness—an unadventurous spirit.”

What does stymie mean?

Stymie means a situation where an opponent's ball is directly in the way of one's own ball and the hole, on the putting green (abolished 1952).