CUMBER in a Sentence

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1. What's more, they will reproach you for cumbering the place, for being so long over dying.
2. The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUMBER
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cumber
 v.  rest upon as a troublesome or useless weight or load; be burdensome or oppressive to; hinder or embarrass in attaining an object
Classic Sentence:
1  Her paradise was not a tranquil one, for the little woman fussed, was over-anxious to please, and bustled about like a true Martha, cumbered with many cares.
Little Women By Louisa May Alcott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
2  It was almost completely dark in the narrow, cramped, low-pitched room, cumbered up with an enormous wardrobe and piles of cardboard boxes and all sorts of frippery and litter.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VI
3  The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul.
Jane Eyre By Charlotte Bronte
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
4  What's more, they will reproach you for cumbering the place, for being so long over dying.
Notes from the Underground By Feodor Dostoevsky
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: VII
Example Sentence:
1  One day, however, as she put away her account-book and unfolded her embroidery, she suddenly took her up thus -- "Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth."