encumbering

Example Sentences

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Forbes reported on how the influx of returns has encumbering retailers since early 2021.

From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2022

This can be an offer to hold any encumbering items — though not, presumably, the cane.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

Personally, I blame the baggy white t-shirt Mickelson was wearing underneath his polo, the added weight encumbering his movement.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 25, 2020

Paintings and sculptures have been given without the encumbering restrictions sometimes demanded by private collectors.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2020

Discolored copper-plates, sketches in oils, fragments of antique marbles, covered the walls, and lay about encumbering the furniture, in artistical confusion.

From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul