encumber

Example Sentences

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"It was a time to really get to know one another with no outside influences to encumber you," Duffy told the outlet.

From Fox News • Jul. 3, 2021

“Are we going to encumber the writer, when we are here to serve the writer?”

From Washington Post • Jul. 16, 2019

Since 2011, Fukushima has been saddled with the staggering burden of the meltdown’s aftermath that, despite government PR, will encumber and stigmatise its citizens for at least several decades.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2018

The quote, from a 1944 opinion by Justice Felix Frankfurter in a tax case, is usually offered to mean that the court shouldn’t encumber itself by declaring solutions to problems that have yet to emerge.

From New York Times • Apr. 5, 2012

A shocking number of phrases that drop easily from the fingers are bloated with words that encumber the reader without conveying any content.

From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker