lumbering
Example Sentences
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This is a player who inherited the Tugboat moniker in his youth because he supposedly looked like a small, seafaring vessel while lumbering around the bases.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 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
In between takes, I’d see this big lumbering monster taking photos with his little camera, which was incredible.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 18, 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
Realizing that no one in America had thought to write a formal description of the lumbering beast, Cuvier did so, and thus became its official discoverer.
From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson
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