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
He hurled his hat into the sky, roared with delight, and lumbered with arms outstretched towards them.
From BBC • Jul. 20, 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
He lumbered back to where the bus had gone into the water and discovered the wind had not blown it off the road.
From "Storm Runners" by Roland Smith
