Example sentences for: hamstrung

How can you use “hamstrung” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • These difficulties have certainly afflicted the Department of Homeland Security, hamstrung by its many congressional overseers.

  • That aside, the rapier is better than the bludgeon--unless, of course, you are a Los Angeles policeman hamstrung by goody-goody regulations made by a bunch of stupid, corrupt, persistently naive politicians who won't let a guy serve and protect.

  • Neither the WP nor the NYT mentions as a possible Khatemi motivation the desire for eliminating obstacles to Caspian-Sea-based oil deals involving U.S. petroleum companies, now hamstrung by anti-Iranian sanctions.

  • Presidents, who are elected to remake executive policy, find themselves hamstrung.

  • But David Ignatius tells Washington Post readers that the court "is only ratifying a power shift that has already taken place" from the bloated and hamstrung federal system to the more effective state level.


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