lumbered
Example Sentences
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The truck lumbered through the forest in the setting sun, stopping at a grove of bigcone Douglas-fir trees, where West and a colleague unloaded the cage, lifted the door and waited as Orange peeked outside.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025
Once inside, trucks lumbered up a long, curving road into the hills.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 20, 2025
Swede Anton Deibe, 17, a passenger, described the chaos after impact as the Airbus A350 lumbered to a halt on the runway.
From BBC • Jan. 2, 2024
He lumbered over to a corner of the enclosure and spread his wings wide to their nearly seven-foot span, exposing fluffy white feathers that covered his legs like a pair of bloomers.
From New York Times • Nov. 12, 2023
As their great bodies lumbered aside, the horizon opened, gloomy in the pallor of the light.
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
