lumbering
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“So I went in the studio and did it trying to sound like that guy,” Manilow recalled, stomping his foot to approximate a lumbering rock beat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2026
Costing A$136,000, the artwork represents a mythical megafauna, with the sculpture's designers inspired by an ancient marsupial ant-eater found in local caves that was "massive, lumbering and fascinating".
From BBC ● Mar. 25, 2026
As for the animatronics, Jim Henson’s Creature Shop has taken obvious care and skill in re-creating the film’s lumbering robots and evoking their game origins.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 5, 2025
Part of Melissa's punch stems from its slow pace: it is lumbering along slower than most people walk, at just three miles per hour or less.
From Barron's ● Oct. 27, 2025
The lumbering Time Suck had just reached the base of Fry High Boulevard, where its path was blocked by the cars.
From "The Last Last-Day-of-Summer" by Lamar Giles
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