Torpedoed in a sentence

A plan to build flats at the back of a pub near Reading town centre has been torpedoed over concerns about the pub’s future.

Right-wing lawmakers have repeatedly torpedoed U.S. immigration reform proposals over the past two decades.

The measure was hurriedly assembled by House Republicans, who scrambled to find an alternative after their preferred CR was torpedoed by members of their own party the previous day.

Two days later, the ship was torpedoed by a German submarine: 36 people were lost, including 17 Jewish sailors.

While these parties want a caste census agreement, Mamata torpedoed the idea.

After the Supreme Court’s July ruling on presidential immunity essentially torpedoed much of the Democrat lawfare against Trump, Smith regrouped and argued that Trump’s “scheme was fundamentally a private one” and, therefore, subject to prosecution.

Alas, and mediocre box office returns torpedoed any chance of that.

Her nomination was reportedly torpedoed after some senators close to the president alleged that she supported Peter Obi in the presidential election.

In 1945, a Soviet submarine in the Baltic Sea torpedoed and sank the ship the MV Goya, which Germany was using to transport civilian refugees and wounded soldiers; it’s estimated that up to 7,000 people died.

It had been torpedoed by a German fast patrol boat.

Neither wanted this war and a month after Russia invaded, there was a peace deal on the table that both sides supported until Joe Biden torpedoed it.

The fallout from the ouster in 2022 of Khan, a populist leader who pitched himself as an alternative to the country’s entrenched political dynasties, torpedoed that uneasy status quo.

Democrats hate former FBI director James Comey because he torpedoed Hillary Clinton.

Negotiations with the International Monetary Fund have stalled after politicians aligned with the country’s banking elite torpedoed the government’s IMF-endorsed economic program, which had been expected to dig into bank profits.

Right guard Germain Ifedi torpedoed the opening drive with a holding penalty, left guard Rashaad Coward scuttled a fourth-and-one try with a false start and the most infuriating lapse was an across-the-board failure with the game on the line.

But with interleague play basically happening throughout the entire baseball season now, it’s torpedoed the novelty of, say, seeing Mike Trout go up against Jacob DeGrom in the All-Star Game.

DeSalvo, now a professor of medicine and population health at Dell Medical School, said she really doesn’t know if something sinister torpedoed the safety center or it was just a matter of not enough people caring.

It still may over the summer, but in the meantime, it torpedoed L.A.'s chemistry and camaraderie (exemplified by the 136 points given up to the and 143 to the 76ers soon after).

Oops, looks like Landon might have torpedoed his career.

The ship was anchored at Scapa Flow in Orkney when it was torpedoed by a German submarine during World War Two on October 14, 1939.