lumbering

Example Sentences

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Where teams were once content to jog upcourt and chuck the ball to lumbering centers, today’s style is predicated on two words: pace and space.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 2026

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

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 1605 three laughing Indians in a canoe literally paddled circles round the lumbering dory rowed by traveler George Weymouth and seven other men.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann