lumbered

Example Sentences

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The truck lumbered through the forest in the setting sun, stopping at a grove of bigcone Douglas-fir trees, where West and a colleague unloaded the cage, lifted the door and waited as Orange peeked outside.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

State biologists set up a trap and the bear soon lumbered into it.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025

His advisers stepped aside, and he lumbered to the middle of the hall to face the cameras arranged there.

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

Swede Anton Deibe, 17, a passenger, described the chaos after impact as the Airbus A350 lumbered to a halt on the runway.

From BBC • Jan. 2, 2024

He lumbered over and wagged his finger at Ephialtes.

From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan