How to Use speed bump in a Sentence

speed bump

noun
  • But even this beloved icon has hit a speed bump.
    — Itay Hod, CBS News, 19 May 2026
  • The first-half speed bumps ground the game’s flow to a halt.
    — Braidon Nourse, Denver Post, 23 Feb. 2026
  • That’s not to say there weren’t some speed bumps along the way.
    — Dianna Mazzone Singh, Allure, 20 Jan. 2025
  • Sure, but there are a few speed bumps between here and there.
    — Eric Limer, Popular Mechanics, 26 Feb. 2018
  • But even that turned out to be a speed bump rather than a roadblock.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
  • The garage has speed bumps and 5 mph speed limit signs.
    — Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 9 Feb. 2026
  • Don’t even ask Raymond about speed bumps.
    — Ariane Lange, Sacbee.com, 19 Jan. 2026
  • Each step is a pontential speed bump, poised to give your day a rough start.
    — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 10 Oct. 2017
  • And at the least, the Orioles are more than just a speed bump.
    — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 20 Aug. 2020
  • Those wattles act as speed bumps to slow the flow and stem erosion.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Feb. 2024
  • Those wattles act as speed bumps to slow the flow and stem erosion.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2025
  • Those guys have been our speed bumps to state success and to beat them both means a lot.
    — Brant Parsons, OrlandoSentinel.com, 20 Jan. 2018
  • That got them over the speed bump caused by their midseason slip up.
    — Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 30 Nov. 2025
  • In the bigger picture, one bad game is a speed bump, not a crash.
    — Jonathan Tannenwald, Philly.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • Governance is not a speed bump.
    — Shiv Kaushik, Forbes.com, 18 May 2026
  • Each step is a potential speed bump, poised to give your day a rough start.
    — Lauren Piro, Good Housekeeping, 23 July 2018
  • Many in the field citied that brouhaha as a speed bump along the fan adoption curve.
    — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Both of our lives have had some speed bumps and detours, just like many moms and daughters.
    — Karla Walsh, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Apr. 2020
  • And getting a pink slip is merely a speed bump in her journey.
    — Rosemary Rossi, Variety, 27 Mar. 2025
  • There would be one more major speed bump before the end of shooting.
    — Clark Collis, EW.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • In other words, the law is a speed bump to secrecy, not a stop sign.
    — Elizabeth C. Tippett, The Conversation, 20 Feb. 2020
  • For many leaders, the first speed bump is a belief in their own agency.
    — Rodger Dean Duncan, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2022
  • And somewhere in there is this speed bump in the narrative — your crime.
    — New York Times, 7 June 2022
  • The delta variant has put a speed bump in the world’s path out of the pandemic.
    — Washington Post, 17 June 2021
  • The strategy is not without its speed bumps.
    — Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 15 June 2026
  • How do David’s eggs survive the speed bumps when pulling his car up to the country club?
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 27 Feb. 2024
  • The only speed bump the Mustangs hit was in the first quarter.
    — Mike Hutton, chicagotribune.com, 24 Feb. 2021
  • In one town, the only division from Guatemala was a speed bump.
    — Clara Migoya, The Arizona Republic, 22 Mar. 2022
  • This is a pretty standard speed bump for the bread-and-butter iPad.
    — Popular Science, 15 Sep. 2020
  • Next, the researchers introduced some speed bumps to see how the atoms handled it.
    — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 11 Sep. 2024

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