How to Use stumbling block in a Sentence

stumbling block

noun

• Lack of funds is a major stumbling block to the project.
• My plans hit a stumbling block.
• That’s what could be the stumbling block for the record.
  — Tom Maxwell, Longreads, 16 Mar. 2021
• That has been a stumbling block for the Lakers in the past.
  — Tania Ganguli, latimes.com, 23 June 2018
• The thought of air travel is the first stumbling block.
  — Alison Humes and Matthew King, WSJ, 16 Oct. 2020
• The strength of police unions has been the main stumbling block for change.
  — John Laidler, BostonGlobe.com, 4 Aug. 2022
• Schwartz thinks that might prove to be a stumbling block.
  — David Cox /, NBC News, 25 June 2018
• But the question of how to pay for it may be a stumbling block.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Apr. 2021
• What is likely the stumbling block is the length, just one year.
  — oregonlive, 10 June 2020
• That could be a stumbling block in getting the deal to the finish line.
  — Skyler Swisher, sun-sentinel.com, 22 Apr. 2021
• Until now France and the Netherlands were the stumbling blocks.
  — The Economist, 12 June 2019
• Aries March 21 – April 19 Your ego might be a stumbling block at present.
  — Tarot.com, Orlando Sentinel, 15 July 2024
• Its first stumbling block is the forces required to perform it — the same thing that drew Yankovskaya to the opera in the first place.
  — Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 14 Nov. 2022
• Of course that is only a small stumbling block for physics.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 1 June 2018
• But the films themselves may have been the biggest stumbling block.
  — Smithsonian, 28 Feb. 2018
• Just look at it as a stepping stone rather than a stumbling block.
  — Caroline Castrillon, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• And right now, this lack of fear could be a real stumbling block for the Biden campaign.
  — Elizabeth Robinson, NBC News, 19 June 2024
• But training these AIs to do their tasks has been a big stumbling block.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Mar. 2023
• So, this is not viewed as a major stumbling block this year.
  — Edith M. Lederer, ajc, 26 Aug. 2022
• No deals have yet been signed, though, for there is a stumbling block: money.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• Scale is arguably the biggest stumbling block for Too Good To Go.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 20 Jan. 2022
• The poll threshold was the stumbling block for Booker and Castro.
  — Gilbert Garcia, ExpressNews.com, 21 Dec. 2019
• There is, however, the potential of a stumbling block in terms of the fee for Lukaku.
  — SI.com, 24 June 2018
• One big potential stumbling block is what's known as the cold chain.
  — Maggie Fox, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
• However, the release clause may not prove to be too much of a stumbling block for the mega-rich likes of the Premier League.
  — SI.com, 11 Oct. 2017
• Perhaps one of the biggest stumbling blocks to such a move is the fate of the UConn football program since the Big East does not support the sport.
  — Matt Murschel, orlandosentinel.com, 22 June 2019
• One of the biggest stumbling blocks was that the concession would be good for only 10 years.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 14 May 2020
• The biggest stumbling block isn’t the overall number, but how to pay for all that spending.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 May 2021
• Harrisburg, in the view of local officials, was a stumbling block more than a partner.
  — Anthony Hennen | The Center Square, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 July 2024
• The stumbling block, which the law does not address, is getting drug companies to release doses of medicines that are still being tested and may be in short supply.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 20 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024