Sentences with obstacle
ob·sta·cle
O o - Most competition cars will only roll over if they hit an obstacle.
- Overcrowding remains a large obstacle to improving conditions. [+ to]
- Hulls an obstacle in fight to save jumps racing.
- Melissa Wu proves size is no obstacle to success.
- The greatest obstacle to Howard's reform agenda at this moment is not a lack of political will on the Government's part.
- There's an obstacle course of moral choices in Tom Gilling's urban misadventure.
- Obstacle is used of anything which literally or figuratively stands in the way of one's progress [her father's opposition remained their only obstacle]; impediment applies to anything that delays or retards progress by interfering with the normal action [a speech impediment]; obstruction refers to anything that blocks progress or some activity as if by stopping up a passage [your interference is an obstruction of justice]; hindrance applies to anything that thwarts progress by holding back or delaying [lack of supplies is the greatest hindrance to my experiment]; barrier applies to any apparently insurmountable obstacle that prevents progress or keeps separate and apart [language differences are often a barrier to understanding]