Sample Sentences forhamstrung (auto-selected)
hamstrung as in: hamstrung by excessive rules
-
•
Efforts are hamstrung by outdated regulations.hamstrung = make less effective
-
•
She is hamstrung by a lack of resources at the school.hamstrung = made ineffective
-
•
Hamstrung, the old old man foundered to his knees, as did his suppliant images, his congregation of terrified selves one week, one month, two years, twenty, fifty, seventy, ninety years from now!† (source)
Show 3 more sentences
-
•
All she could see up ahead were the hamstrings and bobbing ponytails of the girls in front.† (source)
-
•
"After you eat dirt, you mean," she says, bending forward to stretch out her hamstrings.† (source)
-
•
They pulled at the hamstrings, cut at the back legs until the bull couldn't stand and as he caved in and settled on his rear the wolves became frantic and started tearing at his rear end, opening the bull while he was still alive, ripping at the rear leg muscles and the anus, each bite opening the wound more until blood was all over the snow and the wolves were covered with it.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more with 4 word variations
-
•
Turn around before I rip out one of your hamstrings.† (source)
-
•
Then I see it: the ticker running across the bottom of the screen tells me that the government is facing a challenge to legal aid cuts and that Fernando Torres will be out for up to four weeks with a hamstring strain and that the suspect in the Megan Hipwell disappearance has been released without charge.† (source)
-
•
They were stripped, hamstrung at ankles and wrists, turned over to women in Complex.† (source)
-
•
He shook the water off and bounded after the running man, hamstringing him with a single snap of his teeth, and going for the throat as the screaming man slid back down toward the water.† (source)
-
•
BY DINNERTIME, my shoulders and hamstrings had tightened.† (source)
-
•
I massage a spasm from my hamstring as I march past the twelfth floor, and try to recover some of my lost air.† (source)
-
•
Bleys sprang over two steps and hamstrung the man before him, casting him downward.† (source)
-
•
They were hamstringing mankind.† (source)
-
•
The verbeeg fighting Drizzt was down on one knee now, the drow having deftly sliced out one of its hamstrings.† (source)
-
•
They could and did harass and hamstring them with conflicting regulations about the operation of their business, the wages they must pay their servants, what they should say in public and private utterances and what they should write in newspapers.† (source)
▲ show less (of above)