CUMBERSOME in a Sentence

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1. He was burdened down with cumbersome parcels.
2. The organization has promised to eliminate cumbersome and unnecessary bureaucracy.
3. One was found to have too small a print for a child's eyes, and the other to be too cumbersome for her to carry about.

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 Meanings and Examples of CUMBERSOME
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cumbersome
 a.  heavy; difficult to handle because of weight or bulk
Classic Sentence:
1  The queen likewise ordered the thinnest silks that could be gotten, to make me clothes, not much thicker than an English blanket, very cumbersome till I was accustomed to them.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER III.
2  One was found to have too small a print for a child's eyes, and the other to be too cumbersome for her to carry about.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
Example Sentence:
1  He was burdened down with cumbersome parcels.
2  The organization has promised to eliminate cumbersome and unnecessary bureaucracy.