How to Use sabotage in a Sentence

sabotage

1 of 2 noun

• Officials have not yet ruled out sabotage as a possible cause of the crash.
• Angry workers were responsible for the sabotage of the machines.
• But the old instincts for self-sabotage reared up again.
  — David Greenberg, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 2023
• Now, his self-sabotage has stripped a good deal of that power away.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2022
• With the element of sabotage, this game can and will get messy.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 1 Sep. 2022
• Pundits suspected at the time that this might turn out to be an act of self-sabotage.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 22 Nov. 2022
• She is trapped in a life of self-sabotage and alcoholism that will not lead to anything good.
  — Annie Lane, cleveland, 31 Aug. 2022
• This week's sabotage is pretty killer, as KellyAnne and Brad each get to dish out a strike before the game even begins.
  — Sydney Bucksbaum, EW.com, 16 June 2022
• The blasts were widely considered to be the result of sabotage.
  — Anna Cooban, CNN, 11 Oct. 2023
• Their novel is based on the true story of Britain’s first female sabotage agent.
  — Dan Kelly, Kansas City Star, 24 Mar. 2024
• There were no initial signs of sabotage or negligence by the train crew.
  — Toluse Olorunnipa, Justine McDaniel and Ian Duncan, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Feb. 2023
• The book positions the idea of climate sabotage as a logical form of activism, but the film works as a heist film.
  — Kevin L. Clark, Essence, 10 Oct. 2022
• The counter-hack took aim at Snake, the name of a sprawling piece of cross-platform malware that for more than two decades has been in use for espionage and sabotage.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 10 May 2023
• Cavetown’s Robbie Skinner has made a habit out of singing about self-sabotage.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 15 July 2022
• Nord Stream Pipelines: The sabotage in September of the pipelines has become one of the central mysteries of the war.
  — Patricia Cohen, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• Pushing back on that can sometimes feel like self-sabotage.
  — Danielle Pender, refinery29.com, 30 Aug. 2022
• Which is that: The real weapon being used here isn’t a cyberattack, a smart bomb, or sabotage.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Dec. 2023
• The pipes ruptured last week in what was widely described as an act of sabotage, though no evidence has yet emerged about who was to blame.
  — Anton Troianovski, New York Times, 3 Oct. 2022
• The attack was the largest sabotage to the United States by another country since Pearl Harbor.
  — Phillip Nieto, Fox News, 8 July 2022
• Coal shipments on the rail line to Richards Bay hit a three-decade low in 2022 due to a host of labor and sabotage problems and issues with its locomotives.
  — Antony Sguazzin, Bloomberg.com, 13 Feb. 2023
• But not for long; DeLay died in a 1923 air crash that was probably sabotage and remains a mystery.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 13 June 2023
• The pipes ruptured last week in what was widely described as an act of sabotage, although no evidence has yet emerged about who was to blame.
  — Andrew E. Kramer, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Oct. 2022
• Sometimes love is so overwhelming it’s easy to self-sabotage.
  — Thelma Adams, Variety, 12 Jan. 2023
• Trump is doing more damage with his self-sabotage than any opponents could hope to inflict on him right now.
  — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Dec. 2022
• Petorin worries that the protests and expensive acts of sabotage will continue.
  — Catherine Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Nov. 2022
• Acts of sabotage and deadly protests against agribusiness and mining companies have erupted in the past.
  — Nick Roll, The Christian Science Monitor, 8 Nov. 2022
• Contact your lawyer and put a stop to her intentional sabotage.
  — Jeanne Phillips, The Mercury News, 2 Feb. 2024
• The news comes as Norway and other countries move to secure critical infrastructure in the wake of the sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines.
  — Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2022
• Swedish and Danish authorities have said the leaks were sabotage.
  — Arkansas Online, 21 Jan. 2023
• Tina Fey's sharp and endlessly quotable screenplay perfectly captured the shifting day-to-day dynamics of the high school scene, fueled by nasty rumors and social sabotage.
  — Danny Horn, EW.com, 12 Jan. 2024

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sabotage

2 of 2 verb

• The airplane crashed because it was sabotaged.
• The lawyer is trying to sabotage the case by creating confusion.
• The deal was sabotaged by an angry employee.
• They sabotaged the enemy's oil fields.
• No one is going to sabotage you to make a better TV show.
  — Bryan Alexander, USA TODAY, 17 May 2023
• But will the queens sabotage each other's chances of snatching the crown week after week?
  — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 20 May 2022
• That meant there were no detractors on the panel who might have tried to sabotage its work.
  — Eric Cortellessa, Time, 12 Jan. 2023
• And to be clear, your boss isn’t always trying to sabotage your career.
  — Forbes, 18 Jan. 2022
• The final play of the game sabotaged a dramatic Reedy rally.
  — Rick Kretzschmar, Dallas News, 8 Sep. 2023
• There has been the suggestion that this could sabotage Djokovic’s quest to collect the most men’s singles majors.
  — Jason Gay, WSJ, 17 Jan. 2022
• In turn, French winemakers went to great lengths to hide their best bottles from the Germans and to sabotage the wine bound for Germany.
  — Eric Asimov, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2022
• The White House accused him of sabotaging your efforts to control the border.
  — ABC News, 14 May 2023
• Sarah is on the hunt for a fellow competitor who tried to sabotage her while the group travels to Vienna.
  — Washington Post, 21 Feb. 2022
• The story’s focus is on the White tourists trying to sabotage their daughter’s wedding.
  — Common Sense Media, Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2022
• Some types of gossip seemed designed to sabotage the home-front war effort.
  — Greg Daugherty, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2024
• Since the court could not prove treason, the now 18-year-old received only three years in prison for sabotaging the war effort.
  — Wolf Gruner, The Conversation, 29 Aug. 2023
• And, if so, why would Tehran sabotage it in this indirect fashion?
  — Melik Kaylan, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2022
• In this beloved rom-com, Roberts plays Julianne Potter, a food critic who tries to sabotage her best friend's wedding.
  — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 27 Oct. 2023
• Johnny Depp fan, and presumably, only took the job in order to sabotage her own client.
  — Dani Di Placido, Forbes, 30 Apr. 2022
• Worried that someone is trying to sabotage her business from the inside, Madolyn hires Marco to be her eyes and ears.
  — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 23 June 2023
• Now a German diplomat, von Hartman seeks to enlist Legat in a plan to sabotage the conference and foil Hitler.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• The floor is the groundskeeper for the Super Bowl, works for the other team and does a terrible job that sabotages the best end rusher in the league and we are robbed of another Super Bowl.
  — Daniel Kohn, Spin, 6 Sep. 2023
• But the petty, coarse and demeaning language the participants used may serve to sabotage the cause and further divide the city.
  — Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10 Oct. 2022
• Brandon sabotaged the first fake production idol by opening the birdcage in front of his entire tribe.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 27 Apr. 2023
• When a mysterious group sabotages one of New York City’s building cranes and threatens to bring down a second one, Rhyme has only hours to stop the carnage.
  — Sandra Dallas, The Denver Post, 25 Feb. 2024
• Niv Sultan, the lead actress, plays an elite Israeli hacker/spy here who sneaks into Iran to sabotage the regime’s war machine.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 21 Dec. 2021
• At the time, Melody pointed out that this proclamation was likely to sabotage uptake of the new bivalent boosters.
  — Heather Souvaine Horn, The New Republic, 16 Dec. 2022
• Now with 13 members, the group returns to Las Vegas to sabotage a hotel opening and rig some casino machines.
  — Lia Beck, Peoplemag, 6 Dec. 2022
• The second chance reveals the first chance to have been an opportunity missed, or sabotaged, or simply unacknowledged, and suggests that a life—like a play—is the kind of thing that can be rehearsed.
  — Frederick Kaufman, Harper's Magazine, 26 Feb. 2024
• The department said the information could be used to attack or sabotage the governor or his detail at future outings.
  — Laura A. Bischoff, The Enquirer, 29 Jan. 2024

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