hamper

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After the party, they stored the extra tablecloths and napkins in the linen hamper in the hallway closet.

The hamper by the door was filled with rolled-up towels for guests.

Quietly, I slipped off the side of the bed, rummaged in the hamper for my bath robe, and then felt around on the floor for my slippers.  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

"I'll pack a hamper of food for your trip," she said.  (source) Laurie Halse Anderson, Fever, 1793, 2000

The rover heater is designed to heat air at one atmosphere, and the thin Martian air severely hampers its ability to work.†  (source) Andy Weir, The Martian, 2011

He hears his mother's voice telling him to put the discarded sheet into the laundry hamper — old neurological pathways die hard — but he drops it onto the floor instead and goes back downstairs, into the kitchen.  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

Frederick is a decent runner, faster than Werner, but the commandant seems to count quickly this afternoon, and Frederick's head start has been abbreviated, and the snow hampers him, and he cannot be over twenty yards away when Bastian raises his right arm.†  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

Angela, too frightened to notice that Sydelle ran through the apartment with her crutch in the air, found her partner in the bathroom frantically tossing soiled towels from the hamper.†  (source) Ellen Raskin, The Westing Game, 1978

She disgusted herself It would be different if she were actually helping—bringing hampers of food, maybe, or joining her voice with the strikers' as they called out to passersby.†  (source) Margaret Peterson Haddix, Uprising, 2007

I threw the towel in the hamper, flung my brush and toothpaste into my bag.†  (source) Stephenie Meyer, Twilight, 2005

Instead, it hampers him.†  (source) Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992

I dug his business card out of a pair of shorts in the laundry hamper.†  (source) John Green, Paper Towns, 2008

Or one of those picnic hampers with all the plates inside.†  (source) Sophie Kinsella, Confessions of a Shopaholic, 2001

I hire good people, so I'm less hampered by my own limitations.†

He is still playing, but is obviously hampered by the sprained ankle.†

Peeta starts up hampered by not only the leg but the knife in his hand.  (source) Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games, 2008

The stick that had supported a skull hampered him but he would not be parted from his only weapon.  (source) William Golding, Lord of the Flies, 1954

"—heavy snowfall and high winds are predicted, hampering efforts of the military."  (source) Matthew Mather, Cyberstorm, 2013

He had envied Attean his free, unhampered life in the forest, and the boisterous comradeship in the village.†  (source) Elizabeth George Speare, The Sign of the Beaver, 1983

But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice.  (source) Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None, 1939

With the hampering help of my sisters I made the little doghouse.  (source) Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows, 1961

After the third uniform stopped her, Eve attached her badge to her jacket and moved unhampered into the ancient cathedral and the sounds of the dirge.†  (source) J. D. Robb, Glory in Death, 1995

Nearly all of his father's presents were given with reservations which hampered their value somewhat.  (source) John Steinbeck, The Red Pony, 1945

The paper said Granma and Granpa was selfish, and being that way was total hampering me for the rest of my continual life.  (source) Forest Carter, Education of Little Tree, 1976

She traveled on trains unhampered, unhindered, stayed in boarding houses or visited the homes of her friends, openly, freely.†  (source) Ann Petry, Harriet Tubman, 1971

He'll be hampered by her ability to see.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000