Example Sentences

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The French resistance in the area was sabotaging key transport links, disrupting German forces as they fought the Allied advance.

From BBC • Oct. 13, 2023

Each staff believed the other was sabotaging Norfolk.

From Slate • Feb. 22, 2022

I felt that he was sabotaging the relationship.

From Washington Post • Feb. 7, 2021

She survived the Holocaust as a teenager in eastern Europe by joining a resistance group that was sabotaging the Nazis.

From Washington Times • Dec. 17, 2018

They hadn’t openly acknowledged the situation—that Minya was sabotaging Sarai’s lull—but it was in every look they shared.

From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor