Sample Sentences for
hinder
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hinder as in:  hindered by

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    I thought I'd have so many things to love and nothing to hinder me.  (source)
    hinder = cause problems that slowed
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    "I've got a sled standing outside now, with twenty fifty-pound sacks of flour on it," Matthewson went on with brutal directness; "so don't let that hinder you."  (source)
    hinder = prevent (cause problems)
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    No weather seemed to hinder him in these pastoral excursions: rain or fair, he would, when his hours of morning study were over, take his hat, and, followed by his father's old pointer, Carlo, go out on his mission of love or duty — I scarcely know in which light he regarded it.  (source)
    hinder = cause problems that slowed
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    He gave a smile that meant no good and said, 'There is nothing to hinder you from dancing there again, little goatfoot; always provided you leave us in exchange a bride for our prince.'  (source)
    hinder = prevent (cause problems)
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    Sylvia still watched the toad, ... the creature wished to get to its hole under the door-step, and was much hindered by the unusual spectators at that hour of the evening.  (source)
    hindered = slowed down
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    You're hindering Ralph. You're not letting him get to the most important thing.  (source)
    hindering = slowing down
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    Objectively, that which aids us in carrying out our mission is good, that which hinders us is bad.†  (source)
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    Laila knew that the days of innocent, unhindered frolicking in the streets with Tariq had passed.†  (source)
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unhindered means not and reverses the meaning of hindered. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    And now I take upon me the adventures of holy things, and now I see and understand that mine old sin hindereth me and shameth me, so that I had no power to stir nor speak when the holy blood appeared afore me.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She hindereth" in older English, today we say "She hinders."
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    Naught is such queenlike 1940 For a woman to handle, though peerless she be, That a weaver of peace the life should waylay, For a shame that was lying, of a lief man of men; But the kinsman of Hemming, he hinder'd it surely.†  (source)
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    Of Norfolk was this Reeve, of which I tell, Beside a town men clepen* Baldeswell, *call Tucked he was, as is a friar, about, And ever rode the *hinderest of the rout*.†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-est" is dropped, so that where they said "Thou hinderest" in older English, today we say "You hinder."
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    I am sitting by the window now, up in this atrocious nursery, and there is nothing to hinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength.  (source)
    hinder = slow down or cause problems for
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    The Harkonnens have hindered and hounded and hunted me for the last time, he thought.†  (source)
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