encumbering

Example Sentences

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Forbes reported on how the influx of returns has encumbering retailers since early 2021.

From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2022

None will likely feel the strain encumbering Matsuyama in the coming days.

From Los Angeles Times • Jul. 29, 2021

Personally, I blame the baggy white t-shirt Mickelson was wearing underneath his polo, the added weight encumbering his movement.

From Golf Digest • Mar. 25, 2020

“They are able to borrow things from each other’s labs and use discoveries without compromising or encumbering their intellectual property.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 15, 2016

Only a mile of ascent, or a little more, lay before us; but so feeble were the oxen that we had the greatest difficulty to drive them to the top, even without the encumbering waggon.

From From Veldt Camp Fires by Bryden, H.A.