How to Use speed bump in a Sentence

speed bump

noun

• It’s more of a speed bump in the buildup to the 2020 Olympics.
  — oregonlive, 13 Feb. 2020
• And at the least, the Orioles are more than just a speed bump.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
• There were plenty of speed bumps and lessons along the way.
  — Peter Vanham, The New Republic, 11 May 2018
• Beauty and the Beast’s TV spinoff has hit a speed bump.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2022
• The show hit a speed bump last year when filming stopped amid the WGA Strike.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 14 Aug. 2024
• The Sox’ bats hit a bit of a speed bump during their West Coast swing.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2021
• The groin problem is just the latest speed bump for Lane.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 9 Feb. 2023
• But even that turned out to be a speed bump rather than a roadblock.
  — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
• The only speed bump the Mustangs hit was in the first quarter.
  — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2021
• The delta variant has put a speed bump in the world’s path out of the pandemic.
  — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
• Sure, but there are a few speed bumps between here and there.
  — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2018
• In the bigger picture, one bad game is a speed bump, not a crash.
  — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Each step is a pontential speed bump, poised to give your day a rough start.
  — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 10 Oct. 2017
• Those guys have been our speed bumps to state success and to beat them both means a lot.
  — Brant Parsons, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Jan. 2018
• Those wattles act as speed bumps to slow the flow and stem erosion.
  — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
• For Ingram and the L.A. defense, the penalty was no more than a speed bump.
  — Tom Krasovic, sandiegouniontribune.com, 23 Oct. 2017
• How do David’s eggs survive the speed bumps when pulling his car up to the country club?
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
• The nose lift for speed bumps or ramps now has a dedicated button on the dash to the left of the wheel.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
• In other words, the law is a speed bump to secrecy, not a stop sign.
  — Elizabeth C. Tippett, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2020
• But that was a county speed bump, not a state roadblock.
  — John Canzano, oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2020
• And somewhere in there is this speed bump in the narrative — your crime.
  — New York Times, 7 June 2022
• Jonathan Coleman and Floyd then picked up Sapp's body and carried him to the garage and laid him down on a speed bump.
  — Cory Shaffer, cleveland.com, 2 Jan. 2018
• Each step is a potential speed bump, poised to give your day a rough start.
  — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 23 July 2018
• This is a pretty standard speed bump for the bread-and-butter iPad.
  — Popular Science, 15 Sep. 2020
• Both of our lives have had some speed bumps and detours, just like many moms and daughters.
  — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2020
• In one town, the only division from Guatemala was a speed bump.
  — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
• For many leaders, the first speed bump is a belief in their own agency.
  — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2022
• And that wasn’t the only speed bump Kim encountered in the days leading up to the affair.
  — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, 9 June 2019
• In the rush of the Presidential race, these events were simply speed bumps.
  — Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2024
• The only real speed bump in the set was when Wonder took a break about a third of the way through the set and his special guest, soul singer Sheléa, took over for three songs.
  — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 11 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 21 Dec 2024