HAMPER in a Sentence
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22 example sentences for HAMPER, such as:
1. Production has been hampered by mechanical failure.
2. She tried to run, but was hampered by her heavy suitcase.
3. I expected a hamper from Peggotty, and brightened at the order.
4. Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory.
5. So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.
2. She tried to run, but was hampered by her heavy suitcase.
3. I expected a hamper from Peggotty, and brightened at the order.
4. Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory.
5. So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.
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Meanings and Examples of HAMPER
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hamper
v. put at disadvantage; prevent progress or free movement of
Classic Sentence: (18 in 2 pages)
1 I expected a hamper from Peggotty, and brightened at the order.
2 I provided, and sent down by the Norwood coach the night before, a delicate little hamper, amounting in itself, I thought, almost to a declaration.
3 When I went downstairs in the morning, I found grandmother and Jake packing a hamper basket in the kitchen.
4 Grandmother went on talking in her polite Virginia way, not admitting their stark need or her own remissness, until Jake arrived with the hamper, as if in direct answer to Mrs. Shimerda's reproaches.
5 Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory.
6 Well, for my part," said Athos, "I found Aramis's Spanish wine so good that I sent on a hamper of sixty bottles of it in the wagon with the lackeys.
7 I don't wish to be hampered by any restrictions in the compilation of my notes.
8 But in these great endeavors we are gravely hampered by the political institutions of today.
9 On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements.
10 Her faculty for adapting herself, for entering into other people's feelings, if it served her now and then in small contingencies, hampered her in the decisive moments of life.
11 To separate from these confused conceptions those most likely to advance the lady on her way, was Lily's obvious duty; but its performance was hampered by rapidly-growing doubts.
12 So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.
13 Our conversation was hampered by the presence of the driver of the hired wagonette, so that we were forced to talk of trivial matters when our nerves were tense with emotion and anticipation.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
Context Highlight In Chapter 14. The Hound of the Baskervilles
14 Children, young men, young women, some carrying hampers, others butterfly nets, others spy-glasses, others tin botanical cases arrive.
15 Sir John and I will unpack the hampers, here where the grass is burnt, where we had the picnic last year.
Example Sentence:
1 The new mother didn't realize how much the effort of caring for an infant would hamper her ability to keep an immaculate house.
2 UNICEF warns that failing to address these health and nutritional challenges will hamper any long-term development here.
3 She tried to run, but was hampered by her heavy suitcase.
4 Production has been hampered by mechanical failure.