Sample sentences for HINDRANCE

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any obstruction that is burdensome

Putting more people on the project at this late date would be more a hindrance than a help.

I have already explained to you that what is out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance.
Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan -- A Study In Scarlet
Books are hindrances to persisting stupidity.
Spanish Proverb
It seemed to her that such principles could only be a hindrance in farm management.
Tolstoy, Leo -- Anna Karenina
Perhaps he will be young, strong, and enduring, like yourself, and will aid you in your escape, while I have been but a hindrance.
Dumas, Alexandre -- The Count of Monte Cristo
Bigwig realized that Woundwort also knew that in the run his body would be nearly as great a hindrance dead as alive.
Richard Adams -- Watership Down
I told him I was very glad, as indeed I was, to have been no hindrance to him, and that I hoped I should be none now.
Charles Dickens -- Bleak House
It would have been faster, but Denna's mania was growing stronger, and all her extra energy was more of a hindrance than a help.
Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
We both did what we had to do without any hindrance, and when we met again at one o'clock reported it done.
Charles Dickens -- Great Expectations
The long gap in their communications proved no hindrance at all.
Larry McMurtry -- Lonesome Dove
Fierce Abas first he slew; Abas, the stay Of Trojan hopes, and hindrance of the day.
Virgil -- The Aeneid
But how long, Oedipa thought, could it go on before collisions became a serious hindrance?
Thomas Pynchon -- The Crying of Lot 49
His father explained that they wanted something done if possible, it was such a hindrance to the kid in earning his living.
W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
To a man on foot, stairs are a hindrance.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
She had learned not to argue with Mrs. Whitshank, who was a force of nature when it came to cooking and would only find Abby a hindrance.
Anne Tayler -- A Spool of Blue Thread
All the things I thought I'd learnt are just a hindrance, they're not knowledge at all.
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
I won't be a hindrance to you.
Baroness Orczy -- The Scarlet Pimpernel
I dangers dared; I hindrance scorned I omens did defy: Whatever menaced, harassed, warned, I passed impetuous by.
Charlotte Bronte -- Jane Eyre
His temper now, as well as his judgment, was a hindrance to efficiency.
Zane Grey -- The Man of the Forest
He had outgrown hindrances faster than the H–G men could think them up.
Kurt Vonnegut -- Harrison Bergeron

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