foiled造句

His attempt to deceive us was foiled.

The conspirators will be foiled in their intrigue.

Millions of passengers have had plans foiled or delayed.

Every terrorist plot, successful or foiled, seems to lengthen the gauntlet of checks.

In Bauchi, there were reports that police had foiled an arson attack on an election centre.

Beautifully decoratedand placed in a gold-foiled box lined in black, these look as deliciousas they taste.

Police in Naples, Italy, Thursday foiled bank robbery plot that the gangs planned to fled away through the sewers.

Passengers on that plane are believed to have foiled a plot to crash it into a landmark in Washington.

Phoebe's Navy man (Ryan) is in town for two weeks, but their plans are foiled because Phoebe has the chicken pox, and gives them to him as well.

And Mr Mugabe's Chinese friends, foiled by southern African dockers who recently stopped a shipload of arms from reaching him, may be keeping their distance too.

The BBC has learnt that South African intelligence officers have foiled a third attempt to assassinate the former Rwandan chief of staff, Kayumba Nyamwasa.

We 've all heard the story of the third Little Pig, who foiled the hyperventilating Wolf by building his house out of bricks, rather than with straw or sticks as his brothers had done.

On hearing that their plans had been foiled, Robert Catesby and Thomas Wintour fled to the Midlands where they met up with the rest of their party in Warwickshire, but failed to rally any support.