- present participle of encumber.
encumbering
Example Sentences
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Those documents alleged that Lisa Marie Presley, Keough’s mother, had borrowed $3.8 million from the company and “gave a deed of trust encumbering Graceland as security.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 22, 2024
Forbes reported on how the influx of returns has encumbering retailers since early 2021.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 28, 2022
Personally, I blame the baggy white t-shirt Mickelson was wearing underneath his polo, the added weight encumbering his movement.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 25, 2020
“They are able to borrow things from each other’s labs and use discoveries without compromising or encumbering their intellectual property.”
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2016
The right-of-way was for walking only, not for sitting in chairs and encumbering the earth with easels and general impedimenta of the fine arts.
From London Days A Book of Reminiscences by Arthur Warren
