How to Use petard in a Sentence

petard

noun

• Of course, my own son’s hair has hoisted me on my own petard.
  — Lizzie Skurnick, New York Times, 16 Apr. 2020
• One acts as a petard, blasting through a wall to grant access to the others.
  — The Economist, 14 Dec. 2017
• The pro-Brexit tabloids had special fun hoisting Maugham on his own bat/petard.
  — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2019
• Now Durant is hoisting LeBron on his own free-agent petard.
  — David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, 6 June 2017
• My biggest worry is that I will be hoisted on my own self-righteous petard.
  — Lisa Miller, Daily Intelligencer, 29 Oct. 2017
• Despite that controversy, the FTC’s choice to hoist Facebook by its own petard makes sense.
  — Rebecca Haw Allensworth, Quartz, 23 Dec. 2020
• Trying to live any ideal, every day, observed by hordes, is liable to get one hoisted by the pantsuited petard.
  — Jd Heyman, EW.com, 21 Sep. 2020
• Foremost among the opera’s ironies is Agrippina herself (Joyce DiDonato), domineering and conniving throughout the span of this opera, but in real life destined, in the years that would follow, to be hoist by her own petard.
  — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 1 Mar. 2020
• After five years of continuous resident complaints, some AEC members enjoyed the opportunity to hoist locals by their own petard.
  — David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Nov. 2020
• What better fate than to see the professional bloviator and conspiracy theorist have his own words used against him, hoisted on his self-incriminating petard?
  — Wired, 5 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024