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Example Sentences for "balked "


The police balked the criminal's escape.

Might be the fellow balked me this morning with that horsey woman.

The clergyman's shy and sensitive reserve had balked this scheme.

Another gala affair, featuring Sting and Tom Jones, was canceled when partiers balked at the $2,500 tickets.

The paper quotes people familiar with the situation as saying that Murdoch had balked at printing passages critical of the Chinese government.

The cooks there were kind enough to donate a large platter and a vat of spicy barbecue sauce, but balked at putting BBQ-Brief sandwiches on the menu.

Indeed, Hecht's reporters would have balked at being called "journalists.

ambassador to Yemen, tried to persuade the Yemeni government to accept these visitors and allow them to carry arms, though the Yemenis balked at letting Americans openly carry long guns (rifles, shotguns, automatic weapons).

But, so far as our psychological deduction goes, it would suggest that the pupil's eagerness to know how well he does is in the line of his normal completeness of function, and should never be balked except for very definite reasons indeed.


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