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
If Europe can’t concentrate spending, its startups will struggle to grow or shake up the continent’s lumbering military sector as U.S. startups are doing in Washington, say investors and founders.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025
That summer, Fisher said, no matter what he did, the bears kept lumbering back into town.
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2025
He would come lumbering into the classroom and sit down at his desk and glare at the class.
From "Boy: Tales of a Childhood" by Roald Dahl
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