Sample Sentences for
obstruct
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    The large crowd of protesters continued to obstruct traffic on the main road, forcing drivers to seek alternative routes through the city.
    obstruct = block (passage)
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    Huge brown boxes were suspended in midair, partially obstructing the view.  (source)
    obstructing = blocking
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    He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by...  (source)
    obstructed = blocked or hindered
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    Their upper lips burned and cracked, ballooning so dramatically that they obstructed their nostrils, while their lower lips bulged against their chins.†  (source)
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    When he stood between me and the flame he did not obstruct it, for I could see its ghostly flicker all the same.†  (source)
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    "I have no intention of obstructing you," said Mr. Beeman in the tense silence that followed.†  (source)
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    As the Austrians ran through the trees, cutting the obstructive tent cords with bayonets and short-swords, and as a line of enemy advanced toward him, cocking their arms if they carried clubs and raising their rifles if they were going to use bayonets, Alessandro realized that the entire Italian army was dressed like waiters.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    After a while he abandoned this one as well as being obstructively cynical and decided he quite liked human beings after all, but he always remained desperately worried abut the terrible number of things they didn't know about.†  (source)
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    His body obstructs the alley.†  (source)
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    They would sit silent, more bodeful of the direct antagonism of things than of their insensate and stolid obstructiveness.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    For as in this Disease, there is an unnaturall spirit, or wind in the head that obstructeth the roots of the Nerves, and moving them violently, taketh away the motion which naturally they should have from the power of the Soule in the Brain, and thereby causeth violent, and irregular motions (which men call Convulsions) in the parts;†  (source)
    standard suffix: Today, the suffix "-eth" is replaced by "-s", so that where they said "She obstructeth" in older English, today we say "She obstructs."
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    With an obstructed view.†  (source)
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    It's forbidden to obstruct the crossing point.†  (source)
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