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Example sentences for "hindrance"

Lexicographically close words:
hinders; hindleg; hindlegs; hindmost; hindquarters; hindrances; hindred; hindreth; hindring; hinds
  1. But the wounded forepaw was a hindrance to the lion's movements, and he began to crawl along the hollow's edge, seeking a better point from which to make a leap.

  2. I wish we hadn't done it now, for he has proved more of a hindrance than a help, and his real knowledge of fauna and flora could be put in a peanut shell, with room to spare.

  3. Beseech of Him in His goodness, my dear daughter, to accomplish in us His holy will, without let or hindrance on our part.

  4. Yet, though they were all "under special surveillance," they had come here without let or hindrance within a year.

  5. There was, however, a rather curious hindrance to the final settlement, an incident which I cannot leave untold.

  6. The Persian bands raised a wild shout, and without hindrance filled every quarter of the city.

  7. They generally contrive to give the impression of some mysterious hindrance by which they are held back from full and frank confession.

  8. The retina of outer vision though sensitive and delicate may nevertheless be a hindrance to the inner eye which alone can perceive.

  9. Whosoever and whatsoever meeting becometh a hindrance to the diffusion of the Light of Faith, let the loved ones give them counsel and say: “Of all the gifts of God the greatest is the gift of Teaching.

  10. These are inevitably destructive and a menace and hindrance to a nation’s life,—even as it is recorded in the Torah and confirmed in history that when the Jews became fettered by empty forms and imitations the wrath of God became manifest.

  11. Luther, however, furiously entered the lists on behalf of the executed man and against the detested Archbishop who, in spite of his private faults, remained faithful to the Church and was a hindrance to the spread of Lutheranism in Germany.

  12. But whoever reads them, “let him see well to it that they do not prove a hindrance to his studying Scripture itself.

  13. This scandal has been a hindrance to the new doctrine of faith from the beginning even to the present day.

  14. The very favor with which they have been received is a hindrance to me, by forcing on me a self-consciousness from which I was entirely free when I wrote the First Series.

  15. Why, the very air Is full of hindrance and despair!

  16. Today still it holds fast to its war objects of conquest, and therewith forms the chief hindrance to immediate peace negotiations on the ground of no annexations and no force of any kind.

  17. Talk means discussion, discussion means irritation, irritation means opposition; and opposition means hindrance always, whether you are right or wrong.

  18. The Veldtcornet obtained from him a "free pass" to Kroonstad through the English lines, and also a written request to the British authorities there to allow him and twenty burghers to proceed without hindrance to Rouxville.

  19. The presence of women in our laager was a great hindrance to me in my work.

  20. They, of course, were only too glad to avoid any hindrance to their onward journey, and all with one voice agreed to what the Rônin had proposed; and so the matter was settled.

  21. The occupations that are necessary for each one in his state of life are no hindrance to piety, but increase it and adorn the work of devotion.

  22. But his face was apparently known here, for no serious hindrance to proceed was put in his way.

  23. De Batz felt that they were the real, the most likely hindrance to his schemes.

  24. This time he experienced no hindrance from the guard, but passing through the vestibule, and descending the great horse-shoe staircase, he mounted his steed, and rode off with his escort.

  25. There is now no hindrance to my proposed campaign in Italy," remarked François I.

  26. Of the four, the Church, often treated as the most valuable, was really the least so, inasmuch as it wrought always more for the hindrance of progress and the sundering of communities than for advance and unification.

  27. The forces of hindrance were political and psychological;[347] and they operated still more powerfully under the Romans than under the successors of Alexander.

  28. Indeed, the fulness of the autonomous life attained by the separate cities was a psychological hindrance to their political union, given the primary geographical sunderance.

  29. Kossuth was as indignant at this hindrance to his schemes of national unity as Joseph II.

  30. She heeded not this, for she feared lest a wife should prove a clog and hindrance to my hopes.

  31. Or what hindrance was a far slower wit to Thy little ones, since they departed not far from Thee, that in the nest of Thy Church they might securely be fledged, and nourish the wings of charity, by the food of a sound faith.

  32. Meanwhile my sins were being multiplied, and my concubine being torn from my side as a hindrance to my marriage, my heart which clave unto her was torn and wounded and bleeding.


  33. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hindrance" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    afterthought; arrest; bar; barrier; bind; block; blockade; check; closure; constraint; constriction; control; cramp; curb; curtailment; deceleration; delay; detention; deterrent; difficulty; disadvantage; drawback; embargo; encumbrance; fixation; halt; hampering; handicap; hindrance; hitch; holdup; hurdle; impedance; impediment; inconvenience; inhibition; injunction; interdict; interference; interim; interruption; jam; lag; lagging; let; liability; monopoly; moratorium; obstacle; obstruction; occlusion; opposition; overload; pause; prevention; preventive; prohibition; protection; rationing; rein; repression; reprieve; resistance; respite; restraint; restriction; retardation; retrenchment; setback; shackle; slowdown; slowness; snag; squeeze; stay; stop; stoppage; stranglehold; stricture; suppression; suspension; wait