How to Use roadblock in a Sentence

roadblock

noun

• That's the one roadblock to the plan.
• Israeli troops had set up roadblocks in the area, the IDF said.
  — Elliott Gotkine, CNN, 20 June 2023
• But even that turned out to be a speed bump rather than a roadblock.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
• So far, the behind-the-scenes meetings have hit a roadblock, both sides say.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 17 Mar. 2023
• In this week’s Q&A with the Lede, Northrop said one roadblock in this process has been a lack of state funding.
  — Heather Gann | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2023
• Over the past two years, this playoff game had been a roadblock for the No. 1 Lakers.
  — Glenn Graham, Baltimore Sun, 14 May 2024
• The roadblocks forced Cicchino and the line of cars onto Front Street.
  — Claire Galofaro and Matt Sedensky, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
• Sanders sees size as the roadblock to his team being able to compete in such a game.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 21 July 2022
• At Irving’s roadblock, the crowd stared and aimed smartphone cameras at the scene down the road.
  — USA Today, 10 Apr. 2023
• According to McHenry, the main roadblock came from the White House.
  — Byleo Schwartz, Fortune Crypto, 2 Aug. 2023
• The movie’s length throws up a roadblock for the incurious.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 30 Nov. 2023
• But coming up with the money to comply with the ULEZ might put up a roadblock.
  — Lenora Chu, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Dec. 2023
• In trying to get a hold of that candy, Black still came up against roadblocks.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 8 Nov. 2023
• But the main roadblock is the same – the interconnection queue.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 26 Dec. 2022
• Green said the driver sped away but ran into a roadblock.
  — CBS News, 14 Aug. 2022
• Jeff Zucker’s attempt to be the U.K.’s next media mogul just hit a roadblock.
  — Ben Dummett, WSJ, 30 Nov. 2023
• Deciding when to meet tends to be the biggest roadblock, Ford says.
  — Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 8 July 2024
• This was 2018, though, so the endeavor hit a very large roadblock a few years later.
  — Alyson Sheppard, Robb Report, 4 Aug. 2022
• After falling behind in the first half of the leg, the shining moment came at the lasso roadblock.
  — Journal Sentinel, 13 Mar. 2024
• Bray Wyatt appears to be the next roadblock for Lashley.
  — Alfred Konuwa, Forbes, 18 Feb. 2023
• Police set up roadblocks and searched cars and SWAT teams went through more than 100 houses.
  — oregonlive, 18 July 2023
• In the fifth, Hicks ran into a game-deciding roadblock.
  — Justice Delos Santos, The Mercury News, 11 June 2024
• Argentina should be a lock to move on in Group C but could hit a roadblock against Denmark or France in the second round.
  — Frank Dell'apa, BostonGlobe.com, 18 Nov. 2022
• Here are the roadblocks that Kaiser-Geisinger will face, followed by those the retail giants will encounter.
  — Robert Pearl, Forbes, 17 July 2023
• On her way to the remote village of San Vicente, the politician’s car ran into a roadblock.
  — Antonia Mufarech, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2022
• Write down at least two of your biggest fears and roadblocks to starting your business.
  — Ildeme Mahinay Koch, Forbes, 4 May 2023
• The program hit some roadblocks and so wasn't expanded, but now Mass.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 6 Sep. 2023
• Friends were reporting that some routes out were safe, and others said they had been turned back at roadblocks.
  — Hafiz Haroun, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2023
• How 'tricks and traps' hurt consumers The FTC already was seeing a steady flow of complaints from consumers about how some businesses had put up too many roadblocks to canceling recurring charges.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 18 Oct. 2024
• Cost Tradeoff One of the biggest roadblocks to data efficiency is the lack of visibility into the total cost of data workflows.
  — Desikan Madhavanur, Forbes, 17 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 10 Nov 2024