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
Once inside, trucks lumbered up a long, curving road into the hills.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2025
As the hulking offensive lineman lumbered on to a chair, one of his compatriots draped an Australian flag around his shoulders.
From BBC • Feb. 10, 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
Quintus threw the bronze shield, and Mrs. O’Leary lumbered after it.
From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan
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