Sample Sentences for
hamper
grouped by contextual meaning
(editor-reviewed)

hamper as in:  laundry hamper

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Please put your dirty laundry in the laundry hamper.
hamper = storage basket or container
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    After the party, they stored the extra tablecloths and napkins in the linen hamper in the hallway closet.
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    The hamper by the door was filled with rolled-up towels for guests.
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    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)
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    "I'll pack a hamper of food for your trip," she said.  (source)
    hamper = basket or container
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    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)
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    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)
    hamper = storage basket or container
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    The rover heater is designed to heat air at one atmosphere, and the thin Martian air severely hampers its ability to work.†  (source)
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    Uaaxee returned with a hamper from which protruded a chicken wing as big as a turkey.†  (source)
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    Instead, it hampers him.†  (source)
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    Everything comes off and into the hamper.†  (source)
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    So he and Abby made the three-hour trip in the pickup, while Denny drove Abby's car with Susan in the passenger seat and the food hampers in the rear.†  (source)
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    He threw his socks and underwear in the hamper, his work clothes in the work clothes bin.†  (source)
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    Women in the seats with their empty hampers and baskets spoke to them softly as they made their way down the aisle.†  (source)
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hamper as in:  hampered by

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She was hampered in her efforts by the bad weather.
hampered = hindered (slowed or made more difficult)
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    Peeta starts up hampered by not only the leg but the knife in his hand.  (source)
    hampered = hindered (slowed down)
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    With the hampering help of my sisters I made the little doghouse.  (source)
    hampering = hindering; i.e., slowing down or causing problems
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    The stick that had supported a skull hampered him but he would not be parted from his only weapon.  (source)
    hampered = hindered (slowed progress)
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    But-incongruous as it may seem to some-I was restrained and hampered by my innate sense of justice.  (source)
    hampered = hindered
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    "—heavy snowfall and high winds are predicted, hampering efforts of the military."  (source)
    hampering = hindering (slowing down or causing problems)
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    He had envied Attean his free, unhampered life in the forest, and the boisterous comradeship in the village.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhampered means not and reverses the meaning of hampered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    Nearly all of his father's presents were given with reservations which hampered their value somewhat.  (source)
    hampered = hindered
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    The paper said Granma and Granpa was selfish, and being that way was total hampering me for the rest of my continual life.  (source)
    hampering = hindering; i.e., slowing down or causing problems
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    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)
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    It was a treacherous descent and Dumbledore, hampered slightly by his withered hand, moved slowly.†  (source)
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    one knows one must let go of one's child, contrary to all the instincts one had when one was younger, because holding on can no longer offer the child protection, it can only pull the child down, and threaten them with drowning, for the child is now stronger than the parent, and the circumstances are such that the utmost of strength is required, and the arc of a child's life only appears for a while to match the arc of a parent's, in reality one sits atop the other, a hill atop a hill, a curve atop a curve, and Saeed's father's arc now needed to curve lower, while his son's still curved higher, for with an old man hampering them these two young people were simply less likely to survive.†  (source)
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    She traveled on trains unhampered, unhindered, stayed in boarding houses or visited the homes of her friends, openly, freely.†  (source)
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    They moved slowly to accommodate my pace, which was hampered by my chain-cuffed ankles.†  (source)
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