Synonym: barrier, block, bound, catch, difficulty, hitch, jump, leap, obstacle, snag, vault. Similar words: regardless, regardless of, hurt, church, hardly any, hurry up, hurricane, in a hurry. Meaning: ['hɜrdl /'hɜːdl] 
n. 1. a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races 2. an obstacle that you are expected to overcome 3. the act of jumping over an obstacle. v. jump a hurdle.
n. 1. a light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races 2. an obstacle that you are expected to overcome 3. the act of jumping over an obstacle. v. jump a hurdle. 
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1 His horse fell at the final hurdle.
2 He fell at the last hurdle.
3 Two-thirds of candidates fail at this first hurdle and are packed off home.
4 His horse fell as it jumped the last hurdle.
5 We'll jump each hurdle as we come to it.
6 The plan fell at the first hurdle.
7 The next hurdle will be getting her parents' agreement.
8 This is perhaps the most difficult hurdle that we face.
9 You have to hurdle to London and get the intelligence back.
10 Well we've cleared the first hurdle; let's see what happens next.
11 She learnt to hurdle by leaping over bales of hay on her family's farm.
12 Getting a work permit was the first hurdle to overcome.
13 You have already overcome the first major hurdle by passing the entrance exam.
14 The first big hurdle in putting your car on the road is getting insurance.
15 I still had that hurdle to overcome.
16 Does curiosity always hurdle self interest?
17 Devising an evocative name is only the first hurdle.
18 The major hurdle, however,[www.Sentencedict.com] is entry into secondary school.
19 The next hurdle was finding a front axle.
20 The biggest hurdle is breaking the addiction.
21 An extra half-mile in the Tom Masson Hurdle will see further improvement, and he will be hard to beat.
22 The defeat of Flown in the Smurfit Champion Hurdle proved costly for many punters.
23 BHis biggest hurdle, however, may come when he applies for a job.
24 Making the correct change was a big hurdle for my father.
25 If this threshold hurdle were cleared, then the teacher would have the extra pay for life.
26 Both are course and distance hurdle winners - Capolla Jack in record time.
27 Finding enough money for the project was the first hurdle.
28 With her speed and agility, Cage cut out all her competitors in the hurdle race.
29 The cost of this exercise is proving a major hurdle.
30 We worked hard for three months on the deal only to see it fall at the final hurdle.
More similar words: regardless, regardless of, hurt, church, hardly any, hurry up, hurricane, in a hurry, needle, befuddled, a bundle of, upwardly mobile, middle-class, middle ground.