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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.

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 Meanings and Examples of HAMPER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 9. I HAVE A MEMORABLE BIRTHDAY
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.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. BLISSFUL
3  When I went downstairs in the morning, I found grandmother and Jake packing a hamper basket in the kitchen.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
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.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: X
5  Rody Kickham had greaves in his number and a hamper in the refectory.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
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.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 28 THE RETURN
7  I don't wish to be hampered by any restrictions in the compilation of my notes.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 1: XI
8  But in these great endeavors we are gravely hampered by the political institutions of today.
War and Peace 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER VII
9  On his thin, weak legs were heavy chains which hampered his irresolute movements.
War and Peace 4 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 11: CHAPTER XXV
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 5
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 9
12  So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
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
14  Children, young men, young women, some carrying hampers, others butterfly nets, others spy-glasses, others tin botanical cases arrive.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
15  Sir John and I will unpack the hampers, here where the grass is burnt, where we had the picnic last year.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
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.