How to Use hurdle in a Sentence

hurdle

1 of 2 noun

• He won a medal in the high hurdles.
• The company faces severe financial hurdles this year.
• First, he’s got to clear the Super Bowl–size hurdle of the next few months.
  — Alessandra Codinha, Vogue, 17 Jan. 2024
• But the idea is to run through the real hurdles that Ohio State would have to overcome to win it all.
  — Doug Lesmerises, cleveland, 21 July 2023
• The biggest hurdle to clear, Richard said, is the ultimate price tag.
  — Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Mar. 2024
• He’s had so many hurdles and roadblocks, and he’s just faltered.
  — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 2 Mar. 2024
• But waiting for the legal hurdles to clear up is not the only concern.
  — Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 24 Feb. 2024
• Among those changes has been his bid to rebrand Twitter to X, which has so far been met with a number of hurdles.
  — Chantal Da Silva, NBC News, 2 Aug. 2023
• But if the same old bureaucratic hurdles stand in the way of access to those programs, no one wins.
  — Andrew Heath, The Mercury News, 12 Apr. 2024
• Even finding food and other supplies has been a major hurdle in the city.
  — Emiliano Rodríguez Mega, New York Times, 30 Oct. 2023
• Despite these hurdles, British wine is in a better place than it’s ever been.
  — Prarthana Prakash, Fortune Europe, 12 Nov. 2023
• This BenQ model, which is 25% off at Amazon for a short time, overcomes that hurdle with ease.
  — K. Thor Jensen, PCMAG, 10 Apr. 2024
• But drive-thru restrictions in some local cities have been a hurdle.
  — David Garrick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
• All three have hurdles to clear in their recoveries, but each remains in play to return by the end of the season.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Aug. 2023
• The first hurdle is whether a recycling service is available at all.
  — Tribune News Service, Hartford Courant, 16 Jan. 2024
• That might not have been much of a hurdle, except that, with a week having gone by since the riot, Washington had calmed down.
  — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 30 Dec. 2023
• One big hurdle is working to gain social acceptance and trust from the public.
  — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023
• Put more simply: Trump has checkmated Murdoch, clearing one more hurdle standing in his way on the path to the White House.
  — Oliver Darcy, CNN, 7 Mar. 2024
• To take on Godot now is to tackle two major hurdles from the outset (yes, out of several hundred, but bear with me).
  — Sara Holdren, Vulture, 14 Nov. 2023
• Gun research has long been a discipline fraught with hurdles.
  — Kristina Davis, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
• He’s been hitting and throwing without pain, but Hyde said running is the biggest hurdle for Mullins.
  — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 26 July 2023
• But such options present more hurdles for members of the public, forcing them to wait for the agency to provide the documents, Loy said.
  — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 31 Mar. 2024
• The rise of Guppies reflects the many hurdles in home ownership among the younger generation.
  — Byprarthana Prakash, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
• Selling work that’s so time-consuming to create comes with its own hurdles.
  — Sakeina Syed, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
• The next big hurdle was to select a sample site: a place where the spacecraft could safely fill its canister with fine grain regolith.
  — Katrina Miller, New York Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• Step 2: The Clothes Clothing is by far the biggest hurdle when packing for three days and definitely promises to take up the most space in your backpack.
  — Vicki Denig, Travel + Leisure, 23 Sep. 2023
• These challenges can be as daunting as the physical and mental hurdles.
  — Erik Brady, USA TODAY, 24 Aug. 2023
• The prospect of charging Mr. Trump under the other two statutes cited in the target letter is less novel, if not without hurdles.
  — Alan Feuer, New York Times, 19 July 2023
• The Eagles won eight events with victories spread out across sprints, distance races, hurdles, throws and relays, a sign of a well-rounded program.
  — Anthony Maluso, Baltimore Sun, 24 June 2023
• But there are logistical hurdles that need to be overcome.
  — Abigail Williams, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023

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hurdle

2 of 2 verb

• The horse hurdled the fence.
• As far as Carr, Humphrey should have hurdled him on the depth chart.
  — Mike Preston, baltimoresun.com, 24 May 2018
• Cooks tried and failed to hurdle the defense back and got laid out.
  — Peter Martinez, CBS News, 5 Feb. 2018
• The 250-pound Warren smashed through tackles and even hurdled over one for a first down in the first half.
  — USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2017
• Just seven months ago, the hurdler with the fastest time in the world this season wasn’t even hurdling at all.
  — Pat Graham, Chicago Tribune, 7 July 2023
• Dobbs tried to hurdle his way into the end zone near the right pylon, but Chachere, the T-shirt ripper, stopped him cold in the air.
  — cleveland, 21 Aug. 2022
• What’s this about: The winner hurdles one of the major contenders for the Big 12 championship.
  — Carlos Mendez, star-telegram, 18 Sep. 2017
• Which team -- or teams -- have hurdled the Blue Devils?
  — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 13 Dec. 2017
• Three plays later, Barkley hurdled over right guard to just barely get into the end zone for a 17-0 lead.
  — Joe Juliano, Philly.com, 7 Oct. 2017
• George Pickens, a wide receiver, caught a pass, cut left and right, hurdled a man and gained 18 yards.
  — Alan Blinder, New York Times, 7 Dec. 2019
• And with that, Kansas hurdled one of the biggest landmines on its league schedule.
  — Chris Johnson, SI.com, 18 Jan. 2018
• Tár and Gideon are both pinned to metaphorical metronomes, hurdling toward their demise.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2023
• Railings are hurdled, bullets are dodged, people are pinned to walls with their own knives.
  — Noah Berlatsky, The Verge, 8 Aug. 2019
• Haskell can hurdle a teammate, catch a football and complete a pass in one motion.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 15 Dec. 2020
• On the final play of the half, Jayden Daniels found Brandon Aiyuk, who hurdled a defender late in a 37-yard gain to the 10-yard line as time ran out.
  — Jeff Metcalfe, azcentral, 29 Aug. 2019
• Gurley caught a pass in the left flat, hurdled a defender and dove for the pylon for an 18-yard touchdown that pulled the Rams to within three points.
  — Dan Woike, latimes.com, 17 Sep. 2017
• Gordon hurdled one would-be tackler and rammed through another to get into in the end zone.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2019
• Love, of the 2400 block of West Ogden Avenue, hurdled a set of file cabinets and a wall before running out of the hall and out of the courtroom, Taczy said.
  — Tony Briscoe, chicagotribune.com, 3 Sep. 2017
• Creighton has to hurdle No. 9 Villanova and vice versa.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Dec. 2020
• There’s a difference between trying to hurdle someone and leaping over the top of a pile the way a running back might at the goal line or on a fourth and short.
  — Staff Writer follow, Los Angeles Times, 21 Oct. 2022
• Earlier in that same drive, Ebron kept the Colts alive by hurdling a defender and falling forward for a first down on a third and 10.
  — Jim Ayello, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2019
• Included in that stretch was Swift hurdling a Notre Dame defender on a 10-yard run.
  — Tim Brown, oregonlive, 21 Sep. 2019
• Etienne tried to hurdle Bramblett before getting tackled with no time left in the half.
  — Mark Heim | [e-mail], al, 8 Nov. 2020
• Texans defensive back Keion Crossen lunged at Ebron but came up empty as the tight end hurdled the would-be tackler, good for 16 yards and the first down.
  — Akeem Glaspie, Indianapolis Star, 20 Oct. 2019
• Gurley hurdled a player while running to his right on a rushing play.
  — Gary Klein, latimes.com, 18 Sep. 2017
• In his first carries of the game, Trey Sanders ran four consecutive times for 29 yards, then ran a fifth time and tried to hurdle a defender.
  — Mike Rodak | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2021
• And Tony Jefferson, hurdling a Colts blocker in a single bound.
  — Gregg Doyel, Indianapolis Star, 23 Dec. 2017
• Nix went airborne in an attempt to hurdle a Gamecocks defender, only to be dropped out of bounds short of the first down in the eventual loss.
  — Tom Green | [e-mail], al, 10 Nov. 2020
• Wake become well-known among the fanbase for hurdling defenders.
  — Kevin Reynolds, The Salt Lake Tribune, 10 Aug. 2023
• The fastest-growing major economy in the world, India is expected to soon hurdle Britain as the globe’s fifth largest market.
  — Carl Prine, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 June 2018

Last Updated: 3 May 2024