lumber
Example Sentences
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Remember, every one of these nimble little sporters you see on the road is displacing a larger, more lumbering alternative that could be drifting into your lane.
My own legs felt like pieces of lumber that had washed up in the surf: numb and heavy.
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It also faces steeper tariffs on steel, aluminium and softwood lumber.
From BBC
One day, which is to say one Thursday, because all good stories start on a Thursday, Duane lumbered into the Very, Very Far North from somewhere else.
From Literature
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Next moment I heard something big lumbering through the brush.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.