cumbersome

Example Sentences

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I was just clambering over a particularly cumbersome piece of equipment when something brought me up short.

From Literature

This was expensive, cumbersome, and incurred many internal costs.

From Barron's

That, in turn, spares those jurisdictions from going through the more cumbersome process of auctioning off the vehicles, backers of the bill said.

From Los Angeles Times

"I think you can have a school uniform without it being cumbersome," says Duncan, who also has a son who wears a blazer and tie to middle school.

From BBC

“That would be a cumbersome process. The tariffs have to be more specifically framed and the subject of an investigation,” he said.

From Los Angeles Times