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
Remember, every one of these nimble little sporters you see on the road is displacing a larger, more lumbering alternative that could be drifting into your lane.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 6, 2026
In between takes, I’d see this big lumbering monster taking photos with his little camera, which was incredible.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 18, 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 his most famous puzzle, “The Achilles,” Zeno proves that swift Achilles can never catch up with a lumbering tortoise that has a head start.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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