heavy-footed
Example Sentences
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There’s the usual heavy-footed deployment of the “comedy! comedy!” score to cue us to laugh or have feelings.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 30, 2023
But based on their frozen grins, they apparently enjoyed jogging from room to room with the heavy-footed gait of a football nose tackle to do nothing in particular.
From New York Times • Nov. 6, 2021
It’s apparently by design that England appears ponderous and heavy-footed and deathly afraid that the opposition might stumble into a chance to counter against them.
From Slate • Jun. 23, 2021
She came out flat and uptight, heavy-footed, knotted up and short-stroking compared with the magnificent corner-to-corner running of Halep, who has 10 fewer years in her legs.
From Washington Post • Jul. 13, 2019
His faith cracked, and for a few days he lacked his bounce, coming back from his morning run without his usual sweaty high, walking around heavy-footed.
From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
