English vocabulary examples in context: balk
Vocabulary in context: balk -- Example 1.
First, the march of the Tartar army was delayed by the battle of Tomsk; and secondly, the preparations for the defense were made far more rapidly than he had supposed possible; these two things had balked his plans.
Vocabulary in context: balk -- Example 2.
His real name known, all his plans would be balked.
Vocabulary in context: balk -- Example 3.
But though indeed the conducting of this negotiation was about as painful a task as could be set to him, yet when he had a duty to perform, Captain Dobbin was accustomed to go through it without many words or much hesitation: and, having made up his mind completely, that if Miss Sedley was balked of her husband she would die of the disappointment, he was determined to use all his best endeavours to keep her alive.
Vocabulary in context: balk -- Example 4.
At the very moment when she would have seized her prey, the hare moved and darted along the balk between the winter rye and the stubble.
