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How to use hindrance in a sentence

13 example sentences · noun

Hindrance means something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else. Example: “High-heeled shoes may be fashionable, but they can also be a hindrance to walking.”

Examples of hindrance by meaning

nounSomething which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.

  • High-heeled shoes may be fashionable, but they can also be a hindrance to walking.

nounThe state or act of hindering something.

  • Your hindrance of this process will not be tolerated.

More sentences with hindrance

  • All hindrances on the path to liberation are subsumed under the four maras.2011, Graham Woodhouse, Lobsang Gyatso, Tsongkhapa's Praise for Dependent Relativity, Wisdom Publications, page 20. From the entry mara
  • In fact, men were a hindrance to consumption that had to be overcome.2006, Vicki Howard, “Bridal Magazines”, in Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition, Philadelphia, Pa.: University of…. From the entry groomal
  • In spite of this hindrance, some women riders turned in very respectable performances.1999, David Levinson, Karen Christensen, Encyclopedia of World Sport: From Ancient Times to the Present. From the entry ride
  • More hindrances appear evident than aidants, or perhaps more about hindrances and barriers is recognized.1975, D. O. Wolfenbarger, Factors Affecting Dispersal Distances of Small Organisms, page 140. From the entry aidant
  • This time without mishap or hindrance, and after another rehearsal the director had the camera-man take it.1927, Roy, E. Lillian, Girl Scouts in the Magic City, GROSSET & DUNLA, page 154. From the entry camera-man
  • The greatest hindrance to the development of a rural patriotism is that very prevalent and quite contagious disease, urbanitis.1916, Ernest Irving Antrim, Fifty million strong: or, Our rural reserve. From the entry urbanitis
  • No light showed in the coachman's cottage, nor in the grooms' quarters, and no one appeared to offer the least hindrance to Eustacie's escape.1936, Georgette Heyer, The Talisman Ring, page 46. From the entry abigail
  • Thus, by systematically labelling Singlish as 'broken English', official discourses enregister Singlish as a low-proficiency version of English and a hindrance to the nation's path toward globalisation.2022 January 13, Tong King Lee, “Spiaking Singlish: The politics of ludic English in Singapore”, in Language in Society, volume 52, number…. From the entry enregister
  • What is more, like the missutures caused by the installational video dispositif, this second form of hindrance can again be understood as a videomatic intervention in a cinematic quality.2017, Janna Houwen, Film and Video Intermediality, page 285. From the entry missuture
  • Samsonov disliked those artificial, ex officio European smiles at the best of times, and this visitor would be a hindrance and a distraction just at present.1989, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, translated by H. T. Willetts, August 1914, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 136. From the entry ex officio
  • Then our people lived peacefully, under the democratic rule of their kings and their amapakati, and moved freely and confidently up and down the country without let or hindrance.1962, Nelson Mandela, Struggle is my Life. From the entry amapakati

Meaning of hindrance

  1. noun Something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.
  2. noun The state or act of hindering something.

Full definition of hindrance

Questions about hindrance in a sentence

How do you use hindrance in a sentence?
Hindrance is used as a noun. For example: “High-heeled shoes may be fashionable, but they can also be a hindrance to walking.”
What is a short sentence with hindrance?
“Your hindrance of this process will not be tolerated.”
What does hindrance mean?
Hindrance means something which hinders: something that holds back or causes problems with something else.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hindrance (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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