Example Sentences

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Strong winds and low humidity have been hampering efforts to keep the blazes under control.

From BBC • Sep. 16, 2020

Heavy rains, war and a lack of funding have been hampering efforts to control the biggest locust outbreak in more than a quarter of a century.

From Nature • Mar. 12, 2020

Strong winds have been hampering plans to lift the Dornier 17 plane, one of the three types of German bomber that pounded England during the summer of 1940.

From The Guardian • Jun. 10, 2013

Britain . . . will have to scrap the outworn ideas and practices which have been hampering her industries since the end of the war.

From Time Magazine Archive