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Six example sentences with impede, each labelled with its topic.
A zone defense can impede the point guard long enough for help to arrive at the baseline.
Basketball
Heavy snowfall on the mountain pass will impede coaches heading toward the border crossing until Thursday morning.
Travel
Tight hip flexors impede the depth of a squat, so the coach programs mobility drills before every session.
Fitness
Shredding the files after the subpoena arrived was an attempt to impede the investigation, and the court treated it as one.
Law
A single slow database query can impede every page on the site, since each request waits for the same lock.
Technology
Silt from the construction site impeded the stream, and within a month the trout had moved upstream of the culvert.
Environment
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