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How to pronounce hurdle in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms vault
Type of jump, jumping
Type Words
Type of barrier
Type Words
Type of obstacle, obstruction


the last hurdle before graduation.
Type Words
Type of vault, overleap
Derivation hurdler, hurdling

Examples of hurdle

hurdle
The first hurdle to a paid online subscriber system is creating and testing one.
From the time.com
The intervals from starting line to the first hurdle range from 12 meters to 45.
From the kansas.com
Hurdle has said he wants to see how his Pirates handle the inevitable adversity.
From the post-gazette.com
Joyce says he has no idea how to clear this hurdle with his team's RNA molecule.
From the newscientist.com
However, the cost of decommissioning is a major hurdle to fields changing hands.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Straddling that line was the first hurdle, a break from past newsroom tradition.
From the denverpost.com
Hurdle has to find a way to draw out this team's best without going to the whip.
From the denverpost.com
Cassidy also starred in the hurdle events and as a pole vaulter in track season.
From the omaha.com
Its opposition to Bush's plan looms as a chief hurdle to getting something done.
From the usatoday.com
More examples
  • A light movable barrier that competitors must leap over in certain races
  • Jump a hurdle
  • An obstacle that you are expected to overcome; "the last hurdle before graduation"
  • Vault: the act of jumping over an obstacle
  • (hurdles) a footrace in which contestants must negotiate a series of hurdles
  • A hurdle is a moveable section of light fence. Traditionally they were made from wattle (woven split branches), but modern hurdles are often made of metal. Hurdles are used for handling livestock, as decorative fencing, for horse racing and in the track and field event of hurdling.
  • (Hurdles) Hurdling is a type of track and field race.
  • (Hurdles (agricultural)) Hurdles are a form of rural crafts. They are lightweight portable fencing structures that are used to enclose (or 'fold') animals such as sheep (i.e.: a sheepfold). ...
  • An artificial barrier, variously constructed, over which men or horses jump in a race; A perceived obstacle; A movable frame of wattled twigs, osiers, or withes and stakes, or sometimes of iron, used for enclosing land, for folding sheep and cattle, for gates, etc. ...