How to Use impediment in a Sentence

impediment

noun
  • But the law may no longer be an impediment.
    — Kim Chandler, Twin Cities, 4 May 2026
  • So, that's a big that's a big impediment.
    — Tom O'Connor, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Dec. 2025
  • One impediment for many people will be the price of weight loss drugs.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 4 June 2022
  • Rather than see that as an impediment, Arndt called it one of the draws.
    — Charlotte Observer, 15 Dec. 2025
  • How big is the gulf and what are the major impediments to bridging it?
    — Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 14 July 2025
  • Fog, snow, heavy rain, and strong winds are common impediments.
    — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
  • This combo will present a mix of impediments for him in June.
    — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 May 2024
  • In a sign of things to come, sky-high prices quickly became an impediment.
    — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
  • But a longer-term impediment to transit through the canal could have reversed that trend.
    — Joseph Hincks, Time, 29 Mar. 2021
  • Perhaps the largest impediment to his title hopes over the next decade.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 9 May 2026
  • The real impediment for a lot of people is going to be the cost of these drugs.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 June 2022
  • That’s been the biggest impediment to finding him a new home.
    — Chris Johnston, The Athletic, 25 Feb. 2025
  • There are impediments, of course.
    — Charlie Campbell, Time, 23 Oct. 2025
  • And that has been one of the major impediments to people adopting these cars.
    — CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
  • For many, money was the key impediment.
    — Cheri Mossburg, CNN Money, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Neither of these issues have been an impediment to the growth of these assets.
    — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
  • But [not playing guitar] wasn’t gonna be an impediment at all in doing this shows.
    — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
  • The aid is not viewed as an impediment to fulfilling the mitzvah.
    — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022
  • One of the impediments to cutting down is what drinking does provide.
    — New Atlas, 12 Feb. 2025
  • Well, roughly how many counties have impediments to new wind and solar?
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Pakistan said the impediment to the free flow of water would constitute an act of war.
    — Chris Massaro, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • The league and its new trio of partners are moving on as if there is no impediment to their basketball plans.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 July 2024
  • Williams argued that the bank should be considered an impediment to the path of travel.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 July 2019
  • The best iPhone cases don’t need to be a bulky impediment to regular phone use.
    — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2021
  • That a woman can’t be a priest is not an impediment to sanctity — or to health, for goodness’ sake.
    — Kathryn Jean Lopez, National Review, 3 May 2021
  • The impediments to trade and poor storage mean that even modest changes in supply and demand lead to wild swings in prices.
    — The Economist, 7 Dec. 2019
  • But according to Nosek, the injury is no longer an impediment on his play.
    — Kaushik Sampath, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
  • Wiener said his bill would rectify those impediments.
    — Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Times, 27 Jan. 2026
  • Both Ukraine and Russia have sought to frame the other as the main impediment to a peace deal.
    — David Brennan, ABC News, 4 June 2025
  • Windstream and its inability to move impediments out of the way seems to have been the cause of the delay.
    — Linda Gandee/special To Cleveland.com, cleveland, 12 Nov. 2019

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