How to Use obstacle in a Sentence
obstacle
noun- She swerved to avoid an obstacle in the road.
- He overcame the obstacles of poverty and neglect.
- They must overcome a number of obstacles before the restaurant can be opened.
- Lack of experience is a major obstacle for her opponent.
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But over in the kitchen, the chef runs into some obstacles.
—Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
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The challenge is that the obstacles to these ideas are as old as the ideas themselves.
—Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
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In his telling, this was the biggest obstacle the thieves faced.
—Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
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This was an enormous obstacle in the case against Jim Lewis.
—Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
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One of those obstacles is, as the title suggests, a curse.
—Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
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And one of the best ways to serve them is to remove obstacles to performance.
—Ron Alvesteffer, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
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The new train – the first nonstop service on the route – has had to overcome some hefty obstacles.
—Caolán Magee, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
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Some of the obstacles seem to emerge from the most conventional rom-com tropes.
—Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
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Despite the obstacles, Works remained on the dean’s list all four years.
—Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
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The book guides women on ways to get around workplace obstacles on the way to getting ahead.
—Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
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From the viewpoint of many of his White classmates, Moore’s race was not an obstacle.
—Sydney Trent, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
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Name the obstacle and its impact on you in neutral terms.
—Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
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There are no obstacles to work around except for the slopes of the natural bent grass course.
—Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 18 May 2024
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There is a path to preventing such a wrong turn, even if the path is strewn with obstacles and is uphill all the way.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
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The script’s conflicts and obstacles get their tidy share of the available 90 minutes.
—Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2024
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Here are some of the obstacles that stand in the way: High-tech research overshadows old-school field work.
—Caroline Chen, ProPublica, 23 May 2023
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By the early 1950s, though, the nuclear taboo was already in place — an obstacle to Ike's plans to force an end to the war.
—Joel Mathis, The Week, 12 Oct. 2022
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The Cowboys have a chance to win their first road playoff game since the 1992 season, but a major obstacle is in the way.
—Dallas News, 16 Jan. 2023
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Not that Steichen’s dwelling on any of those obstacles.
—The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024
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But a major obstacle is how to deliver the molecule to the place in the body that needs to be treated.
—Emily Mullin, WIRED, 22 Jan. 2024
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An obstacle ropes course features a cargo net, rope bridge, rolling log, a leap across 30 feet of lily pads and a climb over the Kelp Walk.
—Robin Soslow, Chron, 20 May 2022
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The shape of my apartment is unique, so finding places to plug in my old model was an obstacle.
—Ali Faccenda, People.com, 27 Oct. 2024
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In such a case, the filibuster would be the only obstacle in the way of single-party rule.
—L. Roger Hutson, The Denver Post, 4 Oct. 2024
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These parts help limit the bumps that reach your body and keep your rear tire in contact with the trail across all sorts of terrain and obstacles.
—John Timmer, Ars Technica, 18 July 2024
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Now the company has demonstrated its agility chops by having the squat bot hop over low fencing, climb stairs and clear obstacles with aplomb.
—Paul Ridden, New Atlas, 15 Mar. 2025
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There’s a current of tragedy running beneath all of the couples here, as the characters create obstacles to their own happiness.
—Peter Debruge, Variety, 13 Mar. 2025
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