encumbrances

Example Sentences

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But, eventually, families and jobs and the various other encumbrances of adult life conspire to pull you away.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 30, 2023

But do these prosthetic encumbrances feel more or less cheap when applied to someone like Charlie, who isn’t a violent caricature but a sympathetically drawn human being?

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 8, 2022

He provides a general warranty that the property is free of encumbrances or defects.

From Encyclopedia.com • Sep. 19, 2018

This entity might do so free from the encumbrances of inflamed popular sentiment and the scourge of corrosive dark money, and could perhaps even use actual statistics—data the U.S.

From Slate • Oct. 5, 2017

They are the generation of working-class kids entering adulthood with heavy encumbrances.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove