Example Sentences

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“We are sabotaging ourselves,” she said, adding: “You can’t address a housing crisis with a policy that worsens our housing shortage. You just can’t.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 27, 2026

“Maybe someone smoked in the wrong place. Maybe there was something else. Maybe Russian troops are sabotaging orders and don’t want to enter Ukrainian territory by available means.”

From Seattle Times • Apr. 1, 2022

In other words, maybe it’s not simply that men are sabotaging women; it’s that we’re sabotaging ourselves.

From Slate • Sep. 7, 2016

Most defense experts think the Army and Navy by their old-fashioned procurement policies are sabotaging subcontracting and plant conversion.

From Time Magazine Archive

In plotting to set up a neutral regime in Saigon, complained one Vietnamese official, the French "are sabotaging us, killing us, drowning us in difficulties."

From Time Magazine Archive