lumbering

Example Sentences

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Costing A$136,000, the artwork represents a mythical megafauna, with the sculpture's designers inspired by an ancient marsupial ant-eater found in local caves that was "massive, lumbering and fascinating".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2026

Part of Melissa's punch stems from its slow pace: it is lumbering along slower than most people walk, at just three miles per hour or less.

From Barron's • Oct. 27, 2025

In the Oscar-winning filmmaker’s version, a drama from Netflix that hits theaters in October, Frankenstein’s creature is no arms-outstretched “Me Hungry” monster lumbering toward the camera stiff-legged with neck bolts and a flattop.

From The Wall Street Journal • Sep. 30, 2025

And for decades, every attempt to create legal access has foundered on the rocky shoals of property rights and lumbering bureaucracy.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 2025

Their squawking carried through Deadwood, across the busy road, and into the forest beyond, causing scampering critters and lumbering mammals to rise to their hind legs.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman