encumber
Example Sentences
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His house was encumbered with liens and he’d sold a “prop plane” that prosecutors cited when arguing he was a risk to abscond, Maitia said.
From Los Angeles Times
“This Other Eden” is a short novel, but it’s encumbered with all the symbolic import Harding strives to apply to it.
From Los Angeles Times
Pei’s famous Pyramid, had become encumbered by bottlenecks and sometime interminable waits.
From New York Times
As the two leaders met again on Friday via video, they found themselves in positions of weakness, encumbered by geopolitical and economic threats to their informal authoritarian alliance.
From New York Times
The next sequels, I suspect, will give them more time for that, but may also encumber them with more baggage.
From New York Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
