Examples of 'derail' in a sentence
Meaning of "derail"
Derail (verb): To cause a plan, project, or process to go off course or fail to progress as intended. This term is commonly used to describe disruptions, setbacks, or obstacles encountered in various situations
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- Synonym of derailer: A device placed on railway tracks in order to cause a train to derail.
- An instance of diverting a conversation or debate from its original topic.
- To cause to come off the tracks.
- To come off the tracks.
How to use "derail" in a sentence
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I think you would derail this account.
It could derail everything we have been working for.
I hope this does not derail anything for us.
Derail these things with personal stories.
And threatening to derail the whole enterprise.
To derail our investigation if it centered on her brother.
You are trying to derail the peace plan.
Do not derail discussions without good reasons.
They are trying to derail the nuclear deal.
A chance that the train could derail.
That it would derail me from my superstar career.
This is a desperate attempt to derail the prose.
I can not derail my family with this.
There is no way they would derail it now.
I hate to derail your train of thought here.
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I am not going to let this derail the therapy.
We could derail before we even get there.
We must not allow them to derail enlargement.
He failed to derail the dominant train of thought.
We figure they mean to derail the train.
It can also derail promising political careers.
My client did not need to derail the ferry.
You are trying to derail it by abusing scientific definitions.
We are not going to allow them to derail our agenda.
Satan wants to derail lives and marriages.
We can not allow the multilateral agenda to derail.
The group managed to derail a number of trains.
Let us hope the train did not derail.
It could potentially derail the series development.
A concerted effort has been made to derail us.
They attempted to derail the historic accord.
Ten cars on the maintenance train derail.
The devil would derail you if he could.
The explosion caused the train to derail.
But exercise can derail this process.
The problem comes when we let it derail us.
But let us not derail this thread.
A few vocal senators will not derail us.
This threatens to derail an already shaky recovery.
But if the sickness would derail you.
We have no wish to derail the social dialogue.
They can be distracting and derail you.
Not been able to derail the political process.
They do not allow distractions to derail them.
One disaster can derail years of success.
They want more than anything to derail it.
Pay commission could derail government finances.
They often intercept communication and derail it.
They have vowed to derail the agreement.
He could derail the plan by doing what he naturally wanted to do.
