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Usage examples of impeded.

Every aspect of society is impeded by its existence, and if we on the Eastern Shore persist in this extravagance while other sections rely upon free labor, we must slide backward.

Like living ropes, the snakes impeded his efforts, tripping him until he was up against the light metal blockades.

Kira was just entering the plaza, her inexorable progress toward the ziggurat steps impeded by the jerking, jolting freak-inebriates.

His next half-answer was garbled, impeded by berry pulp, but it didn't matter, since he was never allowed to finish a sentence anyway before the next mage greedily snatched him away from his current inquisitor.

A seventh man directed their efforts, dancing from one side to the other to be certain that nothing impeded their progress.

In dreams as well as in waking life, she was trailed by this nasty flashback that impeded every aspect of her recovery.

They so impeded his progress that he dropped a few lengths before he could get them to give him wing room.

He had gotten the hang of slow, controlled movements, then, but today the bulky suit impeded him, and he felt ungainly.

It was known throughout the fleet as “the side-assed skipjack with the nigger crew,” but it was in no way impeded, for Captain Jimbo had to be recognized as a first-class waterman.

This did not imperil the skipjack, but if the drag continued, its racing speed would be impeded, so two men jumped to the pendant of the centerboard and raised it until the lad cried, “No mud!

With burned hands and sooty faces they began to cheer and throw beer cans and trim their sails, but they were impeded by a situation which had never before developed in a skipjack race: the intense heat of the gaso­line fire had melted some of the dacron lines into blobs of expensive goo.

But our men, not having such expert seamen, or skillful pilots, for they had been hastily drafted from the merchant ships, and were not yet acquainted even with the names of the rigging, were moreover impeded by the heaviness and slowness of our vessels, which having been built in a hurry and of green timber, were not so easily maneuvered.

Both sides waited which should first pass these shallows, because whoever entered the narrow channels between them, in case of any misfortune, would be impeded both in retreating and working their ships to advantage.

The face reddens, or it becomes purple from the impeded return of the blood, or may turn deadly pale.

We were impeded twice by fallen masonry, but with a little effort we were able to clamber through.