in the way

Idioms  

1. See in one's way , def. 3.

2. in the way of . In the nature of, as in He was getting nothing in the way of pay , or They had nothing in the way of an alibi . [Mid-1600s]

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Example Sentences

It’s hard to define, but there’s a confidence in the way Clint’s rendered it.

From Los Angeles Times

Smart glasses are becoming harder to detect as smart technology, which means that "many people may not have their guard up in the way that they potentially should", Nurse warns.

From BBC

His verdict on a robot that has “any real idea about its own existence, or the existence of humans in the way that a 6-year-old understands humans” — “Not in my lifetime.”

From Los Angeles Times

Ishmaelle finds this man’s presence a comfort and his otherness to be reassuring in the way it mirrors her own exile from home, her gender and from land itself.

From Los Angeles Times

Eventually, work deadlines, bad sleep, parenting demands and other concrete obstacles got in the way.

From The Wall Street Journal