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

This can be an offer to hold any encumbering items — though not, presumably, the cane.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2021

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 afterwards came to the conclusion that the rescuing party got away successfully as there was no sign of his dead body encumbering the plain the next morning.

From The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid by Collins, Dennis