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    Use "encumbrance" in a sentence

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    encumbrance


    1. During the three years I spent in New Jersey at the Lawrenceville School (although the thought did occur to me it was a way to simply eliminate me as an encumbrance to my parent’s travels), I did miss home


    2. Various spells eliminate most of the encumbrance of average soldiers, greatly increasing their mobility, and many will carry spelled items for Flight and Translocation as well


    3. without the encumbrance of clothing


    4. Even when freed, won’t it be his lot to wear the cuckold badge? What a shame he had advertised that his wife was loose? Oh, she did visit him often enough, but who knew she hadn’t replaced her dead lover? After all, wasn’t she as attractive as ever? And thanks to his rashness, she became a free bird without an encumbrance to name


    5. Without wasting a moment she clambered onto the loom and ignored its groans of encumbrance


    6. Reading it quickly angered Ingrid: it called for prisoners of war that were of no intelligence interest to be ‘disposed of’ the moment they became an encumbrance


    7. growing its huge encumbrance of tail feathers would be a


    8. because she was being encumbrance, she could not do so therefore she could not


    9. Her proper attitude, and she insisted on adopting it, was to rejoice that he was freed from the encumbrance of emotion, and smug and content with his Audrey


    10. The bank saw the crumbling building more as an encumbrance

    11. � A full expression would run something like this:� "The person with whom I live in a loving relationship with whom I have pledged and renew that pledge each day to remain together in the face of life's many variations without the encumbrance of a contract


    12. Well, my dear father, in the shipwreck of life—for life is an eternal shipwreck of our hopes—I cast into the sea my useless encumbrance, that is all, and I remain with my own will, disposed to live perfectly alone, and consequently perfectly free


    13. Here, drifting in almost total silence, with no scents other than the singed odor of the raft, no flavors on his tongue, nothing moving but the slow procession of shark fins, every vista empty save water and sky, his time unvaried and unbroken, his mind was freed of an encumbrance that civilization had imposed on it


    14. I had regarded his presence as an encumbrance to the expedition, but, as a matter of fact, I am now well convinced that his power of endurance is as great as my own


    15. Aside from this freedom from a going concern encumbrance, there are certain other characteristics that tend to make assets more attractive to lenders, and thus of higher quality


    16. The carriage stopped, as I had expected, at the hotel door; my flame (that is the very word for an opera inamorata) alighted: though muffed in a cloak—an unnecessary encumbrance, by-the-bye, on so warm a June evening—I knew her instantly by her little foot, seen peeping from the skirt of her dress, as she skipped from the carriagestep


    17. A length of 30-40m (100-125ft) would then be as much as can be carried without encumbrance


    18. “Her uncle, she understood, meant to fetch her; and as her cousin’s illness had continued so many weeks without her being thought at all necessary, she must suppose her return would be unwelcome at present, and that she should be felt an encumbrance


    19. "Her uncle, she understood, meant to fetch her; and as her cousin's illness had continued so many weeks without her being thought at all necessary, she must suppose her return would be unwelcome at present, and that she should be felt an encumbrance


    20. But grant for a moment, for mere argument's sake, that in Canada you touched the sinews of her strength, instead of removing a clog upon her resources—an encumbrance, but one, which, from a spirit of honor, she will vigorously defend

    21. This crop is now more free from the encumbrance of debt than ever before, and with it has been raised a supply of food far greater than slavery ever compassed


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    Synonyms for "encumbrance"

    encumbrance hinderance hindrance hitch incumbrance interference preventative preventive burden load onus

    "encumbrance" definitions

    an onerous or difficult concern


    a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage)


    any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome