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Example sentences for "hindering"

Lexicographically close words:
hinderance; hinderances; hindered; hinderers; hindereth; hindermost; hinders; hindleg; hindlegs; hindmost
  1. I to the office, where we sat all the morning, doing not much business through the multitude of counsellors, one hindering another.

  2. This ballast, which strikes one at first as superfluous and even as hindering the progress of the vessel, is really indispensable to its good navigation.

  3. But the further they proceeded along the street where healthy people were freely moving about, the more timid they became, and they pressed closer and closer to the doctor, hindering him from walking.

  4. But the tossing of the ship giving him an extraordinary headach, and hindering him from applying himself to God, as he desired, the day ensuing he requested that he might be set on shore again.

  5. And I've got to warn you," Selma went on, "that I am going to do whatever I can to keep you from hindering him.

  6. She saw that the ex-perfumer was taking a mean revenge on her as he had on Hulot; she felt sick with disgust, and a spasm rose to her throat, hindering speech.

  7. What interest can you have in hindering my cousin's marriage?

  8. And all the time it may be true that He is blessing us up to the measure of our faith or self-sacrifice, and cannot give larger measure, until there has been a new discovery and confession of what is hindering Him.

  9. There must surely be some other spirit of great power resisting and hindering this Spirit of God.

  10. May God show us all whether there indeed be an insuperable difficulty for which we are not responsible, whether it be only a mistake we are making, or a sin by which we are grieving Him and hindering His Spirit!

  11. He shows it indirectly, by not hindering the doing of a thing; for what removes an impediment is called an accidental mover.

  12. But that such causes do fail in the minority of cases is due to some hindering cause; consequently the above-mentioned difficulty seems not to be avoided, since the cause in question is hindered of necessity.

  13. But he was endowed with integrity as to this life, in that the body was entirely subject to the soul, hindering it in no way, as we have said above (A.

  14. Further, if the effect of the heavenly body does not follow of necessity, this is due to some hindering cause.

  15. Men of their class and calling generally go provided with the means of killing time, or, at all events, hindering it from hanging on their hands.

  16. The second shots were also fired simultaneously, but at random, the smoke hindering the aim.

  17. What a foolish occupation, that of incessantly hindering ourselves from taking pleasure, or else making ourselves blush for the pleasure that we have taken!

  18. Tories would have complained, and said he had favoured the Spanish trade, under pre tence of hindering an expedition which was never designed.

  19. Yet I do not suppose your friends will allow you much time for reading; and I hope I shall often be the better for their hindering you.

  20. The two sexes differ in many respects it is true; on the other hand, all legal and consequently artificial constraint of one by the other has the effect of hindering the free development of both.

  21. Then sexual life will encourage social development instead of hindering it; it will cease to be considered as an egoistic pleasure but as a means of procreation, and will become the acme of an existence founded on the joy of work.

  22. For they might have greatly damaged the Grecians, by hindering the Spartans from going with so great an army to Plataea.

  23. My whole attention became devoted to the man whom he had marked out for his victim; and I made all haste to ascertain whether I had been successful in hindering his fell intent.

  24. It was the habit some batsmen had of jumping from one batting position to the other just as the pitcher was about to deliver the ball to the bat, this act virtually hindering the catcher from properly fielding the pitched ball.

  25. A last judgment is not for making bad men better, but for hindering them from oppressing the good.

  26. Satan's warfare against the purpose of God is still more evident in his direct hindering of the unsaved.

  27. To accomplish this, a hindering attitude must be assumed toward the purpose and projects of the Most High.

  28. In particular are we in danger of adopting the Pharisee's attitude, when God is wanting to humble us at the Cross of Jesus, and show us the sins in our hearts that are hindering personal revival.

  29. According to the New Testament, we are meant to care so much for the other man, that we are willing to do all we can to remove from his eye the mote which is marring his vision and hindering his blessing.


  30. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hindering" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    arrest; blockade; check; choking; closure; constriction; contrary; counter; cramp; crosswise; cumbrous; delay; detention; discouraging; fixation; hampering; holdup; impediment; inhibiting; inhibition; inhibitive; interference; interruption; let; obstruction; obstructive; occlusion; opposition; prevention; preventive; repression; repressive; resistance; restraint; restriction; restrictive; retardation; setback; squeeze; stifling; stranglehold; strangling; stricture; suppression; suppressive; troublesome