How to Use impediment in a Sentence

impediment

noun

• The real impediment for a lot of people is going to be the cost of these drugs.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 June 2022
• One impediment for many people will be the price of weight loss drugs.
  — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 4 June 2022
• This combo will present a mix of impediments for him in June.
  — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 23 May 2024
• But a longer-term impediment to transit through the canal could have reversed that trend.
  — Joseph Hincks, Time, 29 Mar. 2021
• In a sign of things to come, sky-high prices quickly became an impediment.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 2 Aug. 2023
• The sheriff notes two impediments to success on Sunday, the first being the fire that destroyed the home.
  — Veronica Fulton, NBC News, 5 Nov. 2024
• And that has been one of the major impediments to people adopting these cars.
  — CBS News, 31 Dec. 2023
• Neither of these issues have been an impediment to the growth of these assets.
  — Bob Pisani, CNBC, 6 Jan. 2025
• Like many screen romances, the attraction is only as good as the impediments thrown at the couple, and in this case, those are a doozy.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 10 Aug. 2023
• The best iPhone cases don’t need to be a bulky impediment to regular phone use.
  — Popsci Commerce Team, Popular Science, 26 Feb. 2021
• The aid is not viewed as an impediment to fulfilling the mitzvah.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, Sun Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022
• The railroad tracks, across the street from the high school, have been a decades-long impediment for pedestrians, according to those who live in the area and attend the school.
  — Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 11 Dec. 2024
• But the forward wasn’t going to let the impediment prevent her from making the most of her NWSL debut.
  — Julia Poe, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Apr. 2021
• 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
• Voters said as much when asked by ABC News if the war is an impediment to their support for the president.
  — Tal Axelrod, ABC News, 10 Apr. 2024
• The phrase derech rechokah speaks of a physical impediment – being too far away to partake of the paschal lamb on time.
  — Rabbi Avi Weiss, sun-sentinel.com, 25 May 2021
• Cooper wrote that the pendency of the appeal in Miller's case was not an impediment to the trial in Barnett's case.
  — Bill Bowden, Arkansas Online, 24 Nov. 2022
• Fog, snow, heavy rain, and strong winds are common impediments.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• But according to Nosek, the injury is no longer an impediment on his play.
  — Kaushik Sampath, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• For all the talk about which candidates would or would not make the cut, the criteria have, so far, presented few impediments to most of the field.
  — Ben Jacobs, The New Republic, 22 Aug. 2023
• 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
• But [not playing guitar] wasn’t gonna be an impediment at all in doing this shows.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 22 Jan. 2023
• And this is the biggest impediment to removing parabens from the product-to-body pipeline.
  — Deanna Pai, Allure, 18 Oct. 2024
• If it is seen as an impediment to progress, its future as the dominant power source in Texas - and the country - will be placed in jeopardy.
  — David Blackmon, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• That has been an impediment, but now the soil is ripe for people to try to understand the mechanisms that move this country and the systems that bind us.
  — Mia Nazareno, Billboard, 15 June 2021
• That scene said that chest hair was an impediment to romantic satisfaction but also was a pain in the ass to get rid of.
  — Dave Schilling, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2021
• More than once, the area landed on an annual list of the 100 worst bottlenecks in the country for truck freight and seen as an impediment to economic growth in the state.
  — Kenneth R. Gosselin, courant.com, 20 May 2021
• Once the founders of a DAO set up the intentions and the rules, participants connect without any impediments.
  — Ted Ladd, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• Payton pointed to the team’s abundance of sacks taken in 2023 as one of the biggest impediments for an offense that finished in the bottom third of the league in efficiency and points scored.
  — Nick Kosmider, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
• The speaker, who owes his tenuous hold on the job entirely to Trump, appears to be the sole impediment to the memorial’s rightful installment.
  — Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times, 19 Jan. 2025

Last Updated: 18 Feb 2025