Sentence Examples:
Superfluous inside fixtures should be avoided, as they tend only to impede manipulation.
Armstrong was impeded by congratulations, but at last Rob reached him.
The light thickened, and the intricacy of the forest impeded me.
Guns, knapsacks, blankets, whatever could impede them, was hastily thrown away.
Their progress was greatly impeded by the dense tangle of underbrush.
This unhappy propensity tends grievously to impede the progress of sound knowledge.
The horn in her hand also impeded her efforts to extricate herself.
The soil consisted of firm clay, and tributaries occasionally impeded our journey.
His were no transient outbursts of ardor, which time cooled and difficulties impeded.
Thick, young evergreens, entangling willows and fallen logs impeded every step.
They were like detaining fingers that grasped at your skirts, impeding your progress.
I find you are still impeded by the infirmities of an earthly mind.
Breathing is also impeded more or less, by encroachment on the nasal orifices.
Her clothes were so heavy with water that they impeded her movements.
Our impeded progress down this ditch startled myriads of whirring, splashing creatures.
It is free from the stationary digressions that impede a student of Paradise Lost.
He referred to the so-called laws of discouragement that are said to impede business.
The train of mourners, impeded as it was by the multitude, seemed endless.
Too stupidly besotted to use teamwork, they impeded rather than reinforced each other.
We give up nothing but that which impedes the inflow of godly forces.
Those ruffians in hunting tunics who protected them no longer impede our front.
It lay through dense forest, impeded by fallen trees and thick undergrowth.
When a joint is sore or inflamed, we know that motion impedes its recovery.
An unregulated crowd was rushing with all haste through the impeding drifts.
Large broken boughs and fallen trees lay across it, impeding our progress.
Progress, too, was impeded by several inlets, which meant considerable detours inland.
His wet clothing impeded him and chills began to rack his body.
These worked clumsily and very seriously impeded the speed of the Scorcher.
Where the individual might impede good government, common sense calls for his ostracism.
We find everywhere this play of sentiments, which considerably impedes mutuality in love.
Men's shoes were pointed with upward pikes at the toes that impeded walking.
As Archie had expected, the swampy ground impeded the speed of the horsemen.
My flannel shirt stuck to, and impeded me; I would have it off.
Thirdly, tight clothing tends to impede the functions of circulation, respiration, and digestion.
The two principal obstacles which impeded the Reformation seemed now to be removed.
Sluggish is still stronger, implying some defect of temperament which directly impedes action.
It is extremely awkward to find one's knife impeded by a bit of twine.
When a hairy shin impedes, whack it, or make a feint and a bluff.
I had no idea what I was saying; anger and vexation impeded my utterance.
Any imagination is a sign that impulse is impeded and is groping for utterance.
He looked back at her, questioning, for the slowness of her pace impeded him.
All about the country, pikes had been planted to impede the march of cavalry.
It seemed as if the succumbing of her legs had impeded the other mechanism.
Baffle, balk, bar, check, embarrass, foil, frustrate, hamper, hinder, impede, retard, thwart.
The insufferable dogs, like tethered bubbles, bounded before them, constantly impeding their progress.
These he pinged across the room, firing joyously, until I impeded his efforts.
Its gluttony had caused its death, the weight it carried impeding its flight.
This impedes the progress of large steamboats, during low stages of the water.
The passage of the blood, they affirm, is impeded, clogged, and partially suspended.
We keep on running, each holding an end of the wreath which impedes us terribly.
Sometimes wounded horses were staggering about the road, suffering pitifully and impeding traffic.
Quentin was heard laboriously ascending the stairs, impeded by his poor wooden leg.
Upon you, therefore, will devolve the necessity of impeding his advance into this region.
The boughs of the pines were sufficiently far apart not to impede their passage.
It was still within the power of state governors to impede conscription very seriously.
Happily we are not seriously impeded by the wreckage of systems which have failed.
In these the arm is confined, the blow is shortened, the pick is impeded.
There is in the navy a peculiarity, a technicality, that impeded all my conceptions.
His respiration becomes gradually more and more impeded, until he is threatened with suffocation.
He swam a good stroke resting easily, even though somewhat impeded by his clothing.
The Brahman, polite and enigmatic, did not impede his eloquence, and even applauded it.
The current was this time against him, and his headway a good deal impeded.
It is happy for society that their impotence impedes the execution of their desires.
To impede such an attempt the Boers had set up at intervals barbed wire fences.
Pressure that impedes circulation of blood through them must suppress their functions proportionally.
The passage up the river was still much impeded by rocks and shoals.
In another situation its partial displacement may impede the entrance of air into the larynx.
Rocks and boulders and gorse bushes impeded the progress, invisible in the mist.
The old garment, rolled in a heap at his feet, cannot impede or entangle him.
Fresh troops and impediments were utterly unable to stop or seriously impede our onward sweep.
Other organs suffer but consecutively and from the results of impeded circulation only.
This constant muscular action impedes healing, as in the case of fissure of the anus.
We cultivate by subsoil plow, cultivator, and hoe, with no stones to impede our work.
They pulled it through the window, though much impeded by the jagged glass.
Two fiends who change their forms at will Impede that rite with cursed skill.
His lines, commonly, are of slow motion, clogged and impeded with clusters of consonants.'
For his assailants, leaping at the same instant, collided and impeded each other's charge.
As they pursued their southerly course, the snow began to fall and impede them.
His lines commonly are of slow motion, clogged and impeded with clusters of consonants.
Medicines that increase the discharge of mucus, and thus relieve coughs and impeded breathing.
There was not the slightest inclination to balk their wishes or impede their progress.
He rose and began to run, staggering, amongst the willow trees impeding his way.
Jeanne with a sore heart found herself clogged and impeded by these prudent men.
This is sign that he might creep sooner, if he were not impeded by clothing.
In this task it was his fate to be ridiculously impeded by the pretty maid.
He was often impeded by a slight stammer, especially at the end of a session.
The French regiments in vain strove to impede its progress; they perished in the attempt.
"She's got a sort of cave-woman look, and she has no petticoats to impede her."
It is equally injurious and impeding as regards surgeons, nurses, and people, who are neither.
The rapid and unsteady motion of the boughs did not appear to impede their progress.
Smoke stood up, rubbing his wrists where the thongs had impeded the circulation.
Impeded or down draft is sometimes caused by high trees being situated near the chimney.
Serious and well-intentioned, as well as perfidious, attempts at peace, lamed and impeded his activity.
King Philip became incensed on beholding the rout of the Genoese, who impeded his progress.
His passage to Gibraltar was prodigiously impeded by continual foul winds, and heavy swells.
No destructive insects have ever impeded agriculture; no wild animals have ever existed to harass humanity.
The indiscriminate giving of technical exercises may impede progress rather than advance the pupil.
Her grip had extended to his neck, and, choking up his windpipe, impeded respiration.
His movements were doubtless impeded by the presence of his harem and his children.
His wiry strength was pinioned and cramped by the noose and the impeding bag.