IMPEDIMENT in a Sentence

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The main impediment is overcoming the legacy of mismanagement and waste left by the previous Government.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMPEDIMENT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
impediment
 n.  any structure that makes progress difficult; stumbling-block
Classic Sentence:
1  He exposed their risk and fallacy with his usual skill; and it was only after he had removed every impediment, in the shape of opposing advice, that he ventured to propose his own projects.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 27
2  The expense need not be any impediment.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
3  To be a woman condemned to a painful and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an obstacle to the recovery of power.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 56 CAPTIVITY: THE FIFTH DAY
4  could not tolerate any impediment to his efforts where his trial was concerned, and these impediments were probably caused by the lawyer himself.
The Trial By Franz Kafka
Context  Highlight   In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter
5  I had gazed upon the fortifications and impediments that seemed to keep human beings from entering the citadel of nature, and rashly and ignorantly I had repined.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
Example Sentence:
1  The main impediment is overcoming the legacy of mismanagement and waste left by the previous Government.
2  He was satisfied there was no legal impediment to the marriage.
3  There are no legal impediments to their appealing against the decision.
4  The agreement is designed to remove impediments to trade between the two countries.
5  It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted.