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Six example sentences with hamper, each labelled with its topic.
A stiff ankle will hamper your stride long before it hurts, so runners notice the slower pace first.
Fitness
Fog can hamper the ferry crossing for days, stranding cars on the pier while the timetable quietly collapses.
Travel
Damp weather hampered the wooden flutes so badly that the orchestra retuned twice during a single outdoor concert.
Music
A sore wrist hampered his shooting all week, and the coach moved him to the corner where fewer passes came.
Basketball
A slow permit office can hamper a young company more than any rival, since every month of waiting burns payroll.
Startups
High tariffs on machine parts hamper the very factories the policy was meant to protect from foreign competition.
Economics
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