obstructing
- present participle of obstruct.
Example Sentences
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“Due to those actions and Zacharia Branch’s failure to comply with multiple verbal lawful commands, he was placed under arrest for misdemeanor Obstruction of LEO and received a citation for Obstructing Public Sidewalks.”
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2026
Obstructing a federal officer in the course of doing his duty is illegal and deserves to be prosecuted.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026
"Obstructing freedom of speech is not a part of freedom of speech. The jargons you used cannot justify your brutal destruction of other people's art," a top-liked comment under Mr Wang's Instagram post reads.
From BBC • Aug. 7, 2023
According to a statement later released by Capitol Police, forty-six people were arrested by Collins’s office and charged with “Crowding, Obstructing, or Incommoding.”
From The New Yorker • Sep. 26, 2018
All are perfectly clear that these horrid restrictions Are the proximate cause of our present afflictions, Obstructing the bowels, as 'twere, of the nation, And entirely deranging our whole circulation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
