lumbering

Example Sentences

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Where teams were once content to jog upcourt and chuck the ball to lumbering centers, today’s style is predicated on two words: pace and space.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 7, 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

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

Through literary references and tidbits of history alongside descriptions of dazzling biology, Rundell conjures a parade of swimming, crawling, flapping, lumbering life.

From Salon • Dec. 31, 2024

Next moment I heard something big lumbering through the brush.

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff