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 -
The sheriff notes two impediments to success on Sunday, the first being the fire that destroyed the home.
— Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024 -
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 -
The phrase derech rechokah speaks of a physical impediment – being too far away to partake of the paschal lamb on time.
— Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 25 May 2021 -
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 has been an impediment, but now the soil is ripe for people to try to understand the mechanisms that move this country and the systems that bind us.
— Mia Nazareno, Billboard, 15 June 2021 -
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 -
More than once, the area landed on an annual list of the 100 worst bottlenecks in the country for truck freight and seen as an impediment to economic growth in the state.
— Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 20 May 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 -
The process only went smoothly for the one once named Smaug but renamed the Tyrant at Team Leader 2’s insistence, the harness no impediment.
— Jeff Vandermeer, WIRED, 22 Oct. 2024 -
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 -
Injuries have always been an impediment for Ball to some extent.
— Nina Turner, Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2024 -
Any employer then would need to overcome other impediments before being allowed to hire them in America.
— Stuart Anderson, Forbes, 3 Nov. 2024
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