HURDLE in a Sentence

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18 example sentences for HURDLE, such as:

1. His horse fell at the final hurdle.
2. She cleared the first few hurdles easily.
3. That's Mr. Streatfield, carrying a hurdle.
4. This is perhaps the most difficult hurdle that we face.
5. Finding enough money for the project was the first hurdle.

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 Meanings and Examples of HURDLE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
hurdle
 n.  artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses jump in a race; perceived obstacle
Classic Sentence:
1  To this end, he built a hurdle in the back yard and paid Wash, one of Uncle Peter's small nephews, twenty-five cents a day to teach Mr. Butler to jump.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
2  There was a bare track worn from the arbor at the far end of the yard to the hurdle, and all morning long the yard resounded with excited yells.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
3  That's Mr. Streatfield, carrying a hurdle.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 9
4  But it appeared that as the paddock had not been used during the winter, the hurdles made in the autumn for it were broken.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 13
5  They even rigged up a bathing-shed of straw hurdles.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7
6  For helpers, issuing swiftly from the bushes, carrying hurdles, had enclosed the Queen's throne with screens papered to represent walls.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 6
7  The lower of the three is Gilchrist, a fine scholar and athlete, plays in the Rugby team and the cricket team for the college, and got his Blue for the hurdles and the long jump.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE THREE STUDENTS
8  He fenced the raft all round with wicker hurdles as a protection against the waves, and then he threw on a quantity of wood.
The Odyssey By Homer
Context  Highlight   In BOOK V
9  This wagon, all lattice-work, was garnished with dilapidated hurdles which appeared to have served for former punishments.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VIII—THE CHAIN-GANG
Example Sentence:
1  With her speed and agility, Cage cut out all her competitors in the hurdle race.
2  Two-thirds of candidates fail at this first hurdle and are packed off home.
3  His horse fell at the final hurdle.
4  This is perhaps the most difficult hurdle that we face.
5  Finding enough money for the project was the first hurdle.
6  In fact, the very first hurdle most writers have to overcome, is to shout down the voice in their own head that tells them that their writing is worthless.
7  The main hurdle is the competition and a shrinking market for short fiction.
8  Last week, Anthony Seldon warned that privately-educated pupils were being discriminated against at the final hurdle when they make university applications.
9  She cleared the first few hurdles easily.