How to Use impediment in a Sentence

impediment

noun

• The real impediment for a lot of people is going to be the cost of these drugs.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 June 2022
• One impediment for many people will be the price of weight loss drugs.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 4 June 2022
• This combo will present a mix of impediments for him in June.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 May 2024
• In a sign of things to come, sky-high prices quickly became an impediment.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• And that has been one of the major impediments to people adopting these cars.
  — CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
• Like many screen romances, the attraction is only as good as the impediments thrown at the couple, and in this case, those are a doozy.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
• The aid is not viewed as an impediment to fulfilling the mitzvah.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022
• The league and its new trio of partners are moving on as if there is no impediment to their basketball plans.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 July 2024
• Voters said as much when asked by ABC News if the war is an impediment to their support for the president.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• Cooper wrote that the pendency of the appeal in Miller's case was not an impediment to the trial in Barnett's case.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2022
• Fog, snow, heavy rain, and strong winds are common impediments.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• But according to Nosek, the injury is no longer an impediment on his play.
  — Kaushik Sampath, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• For all the talk about which candidates would or would not make the cut, the criteria have, so far, presented few impediments to most of the field.
  — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
• But [not playing guitar] wasn’t gonna be an impediment at all in doing this shows.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
• And this is the biggest impediment to removing parabens from the product-to-body pipeline.
  — Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Oct. 2024
• That scene said that chest hair was an impediment to romantic satisfaction but also was a pain in the ass to get rid of.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• Once the founders of a DAO set up the intentions and the rules, participants connect without any impediments.
  — Ted Ladd, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• And the impediment currently is the White House policy on the Southern border.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 26 Nov. 2023
• For more than a decade, franchised auto dealers have been more of an impediment than a help in selling electric cars.
  — John Voelcker, Car and Driver, 14 Oct. 2021
• South Asians face a very clear impediment to travel within the region: hard borders.
  — Happymon Jacob, Foreign Affairs, 22 July 2024
• The controversial settler movement has grown in power over the years and is seen by the outside world as a major impediment to peace in the region.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 15 Aug. 2024
• Isaac couldn’t see, Jacob was lame for a period of time, and Moses suffered from a severe speech impediment.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 18 Jan. 2022
• Ramos’ frustrations with school started after he was bullied over a speech impediment, a cousin told the Post.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 May 2022
• That could present a key impediment to reining in the richest companies in the world, which are racing each other to ship out the most advanced AI models.
  — Cat Zakrzewski, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2023
• In many instances, users disable or work around encryption to avoid the impediment.
  — Mike Quinn, Forbes, 15 July 2022
• The drug’s biggest impediment has been, and remains, the simple fact that a number of doctors are still declining to prescribe it.
  — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 28 Jan. 2024
• The psychedelics coalition is up against an even more common impediment to change: Washington’s fear of something new.
  — Ben Terris, Washington Post, 6 July 2023
• As a consequence, the high tuition for many programs can be an impediment for many students.
  — James Herbert, STAT, 17 Feb. 2023
• Homelessness is both a result of and an impediment to the pursuit of economic growth.
  — Tracy Rosenthal, The New Republic, 19 May 2022
• On Tuesday, the final impediment was removed and the Klamath was again a free-flowing river.
  — Debra Utacia Krol, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Nov 2024