cumber

Example Sentences

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"He's on pretty thin ice sometimes," says Jack Ford, 23, the ardent skier and mountain cumber.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Russians knew that the cumber some mass of Russian arms could not roll far beyond Russia's borders.

From Time Magazine Archive

The fads and frills that now cumber our school curriculum make little appeal to a teacher of character, culture and vision.

From Time Magazine Archive

“I can carry thee right well, as the good friar did. The harp and the crutches we shall strap on so they will not cumber us.”

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

He has, therefore, avoided the metaphysics of his theme, by presenting cardinal ideas in the simplest statement he could command, and omitting the details that would only cumber a narrative.

From Transcendentalism in New England A History by Frothingham, Octavius Brooks