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.
• But over in the kitchen, the chef runs into some obstacles.
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 24 Oct. 2023
• The challenge is that the obstacles to these ideas are as old as the ideas themselves.
  — Patrick Kingsley, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
• In his telling, this was the biggest obstacle the thieves faced.
  — Christopher F. Schuetze, New York Times, 16 May 2023
• This was an enormous obstacle in the case against Jim Lewis.
  — Chicago Tribune, 13 Oct. 2022
• One of those obstacles is, as the title suggests, a curse.
  — Tom Gliatto, Peoplemag, 10 Nov. 2023
• And one of the best ways to serve them is to remove obstacles to performance.
  — Ron Alvesteffer, Forbes, 7 Oct. 2024
• The new train – the first nonstop service on the route – has had to overcome some hefty obstacles.
  — Caolán Magee, CNN, 20 Mar. 2023
• Some of the obstacles seem to emerge from the most conventional rom-com tropes.
  — Esther Zuckerman, New York Times, 26 Nov. 2023
• Despite the obstacles, Works remained on the dean’s list all four years.
  — Adria Watson, BostonGlobe.com, 31 May 2023
• The book guides women on ways to get around workplace obstacles on the way to getting ahead.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 7 Dec. 2023
• From the viewpoint of many of his White classmates, Moore’s race was not an obstacle.
  — Sydney Trent, Washington Post, 2 Nov. 2022
• Name the obstacle and its impact on you in neutral terms.
  — Karla L. Miller, Washington Post, 3 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• The script’s conflicts and obstacles get their tidy share of the available 90 minutes.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 24 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Not that Steichen’s dwelling on any of those obstacles.
  — The Indianapolis Star, 4 Jan. 2024
• And yes, teenagers in love often find ways around obstacles.
  — Kwame Anthony Appiah, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2025
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Rather than replace the free-for-all with a streamlined review process, restaurants seeking approval for new sheds hit delay after delay, bureaucratic obstacle after bureaucratic obstacle.
  — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 30 Mar. 2025