Hindrance

//ˈhɪndɹəns//

"Hindrance" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Lack of money is a serious hindrance in their fight to conquer cancer.

If you're not motivated, go back home. You'll just be a hindrance.

I'm just a hindrance.

Some consider linguistic diversity a hindrance; I consider it precious.

Those new rules were more of a hindrance than a help.

Please, I'm asking you. Don't be a hindrance right now.

It may seem wonderful that language, which is the only method of conveying our conceptions, should, at the same time, be an hindrance to our advancement in philosophy; but the wonder ceases when we consider, that it is seldom studied as the vehicle of truth, but is too frequently esteemed for its own sake, independent of its connection with things.

These learning materials are less of a help to pupils and more of a hindrance.

Would it be a spot in which, without fear of farmers, or hindrance, or ridicule, he could watch and wait, and set himself to some mighty undertaking like the men of old of whom he had heard?

Leonid has become a bit of a hindrance.

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High-heeled shoes may be fashionable, but they can also be a hindrance to walking.

The L.C.C. [London County Council] considers viaducts in London objectionable and a hindrance to town planning and would like to abolish all the Southern Railway lines on viaducts in South London. [Nothing much happened, they still exist.]

Your hindrance of this process will not be tolerated.

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