roadblock

Example Sentences

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Maybe the tour wouldn't have been such a roadblock to her creativity, after all?

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

This time, the probe hit an internal roadblock.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 23, 2026

There is no roadblock moderating access to the estate, nor any officials checking if the people outside are press, or anything else for that matter.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2026

Groups representing cryptocurrency firms and banks met with White House officials on Thursday in an attempt to work through the latest roadblock delaying long-awaited legislation defining how the industry will be regulated.

From Barron's • Feb. 20, 2026

With the binocs, I follow the river road back from it and I see what’s probably a roadblock with what might be a fortified fence running away from it and to either side.

From "The Knife of Never Letting Go" by Patrick Ness