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
State biologists set up a trap and the bear soon lumbered into it.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 1, 2025
He also argues that it is “often the young and less well-off who are being lumbered with costs they cannot afford, in ways which are unjustified”.
From BBC • Nov. 24, 2024
His advisers stepped aside, and he lumbered to the middle of the hall to face the cameras arranged there.
From New York Times • May 30, 2024
She didn’t hit it, but she frightened it enough that it lumbered away and she survived the encounter undamaged.
From "A Thousand Sisters" by Elizabeth Wein
