LUMBERING in a Sentence

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71 example sentences for LUMBERING, such as:

1. A mill to cut up lumber and plane it.
2. His mind is lumbered with foolish ideas.
3. The huge convoy of trucks lumbered out of the city.
4. Rhinos, those huge, lumbering herbivores, are a perfect prey.
5. I was lumbered with the job of taking charge of all the money.

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 Meanings and Examples of LUMBERING
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
lumbering
 a.  clumsy or awkward; heavy, slow and laborious
Classic Sentence: (63 in 5 pages)
1  Scarlett heard Mammy's lumbering tread shaking the floor of the hall and she hastily untucked her foot and tried to rearrange her face in more placid lines.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
2  But when a squad of bearded men came lumbering down the steps, laden with an assortment of stolen articles and she saw Charles' sword in the hands of one, she did cry out.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
3  "You tend to your end of selling and let me tend to my end of lumbering," he said shortly.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
4  But Mammy was showing her age and rheumatism was slowing her lumbering tread.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
5  The room was filled with a lumbering double bed and a cheap pine bureau.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
6  Here, Bruno, he called, whistling to the lumbering Newfoundland, who came pitching tumultuously toward them.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VII
7  Adolph tripped gracefully forward, and Tom, with lumbering tread, went after.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
8  And he moved off at his lumbering trot and made for the quarry.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
9  The old smoke-stained storehouses on either side, rose heavy and dull from the dense mass of roofs and gables, and frowned sternly upon water too black to reflect even their lumbering shapes.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVI
10  I feel like a novice lumbering through a bog in a mist, jumping from one tussock to another in the mere blind effort to move on without knowing where I am going.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  Only one thing weighed on him, and that was his having told Zeena that he was to receive cash for the lumber.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
12  This plan had the advantage of enabling him to send Jotham to the Flats after dinner to meet Zenobia, while he himself took the lumber down to the village.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
13  A mill to cut up lumber and plane it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
14  And anyone who owns a sawmill owns a gold mine, for nowadays you can ask your own price for lumber.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
15  They can t get enough lumber and they can't get it fast enough.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
Example Sentence:
1  I am a huge fan of fast, movie style fiction, so the slow lumbering is too much for me.
2  Rhinos, those huge, lumbering herbivores, are a perfect prey.
3  After its long hibernation, the bear was hard to lumber through the woods.
4  The demand for lumber is going to be the same so for every tree that comes from the water saves one potentially on dry land.
5  I was lumbered with the job of taking charge of all the money.
6  The huge convoy of trucks lumbered out of the city.
7  His mind is lumbered with foolish ideas.
8  Republicans and Democrats in Congress lumbered through a day of political maneuvering Saturday while a threatened default by the Treasury crept uncomfortably closer.