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
As for the animatronics, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop has taken obvious care and skill in re-creating the film’s lumbering robots and evoking their game origins.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2025
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
"I guess so," ' she said, and she laughed like tinkling bell s as we watched my big, lumbering buffalo make Iris way to the water.
From "Where the Mountain Meets the Moon" by Grace Lin
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