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    Use "lumbering" in a sentence

    lumbering example sentences

    lumbering


    1. “Though it does seem a shame you can’t have a lumbering party without the actual lumbering,” Desa said


    2. Preparations for the 22,10,23rd annual Yoonbarla Lumbering Party were coming along nicely


    3. But tomorrow brings the lumbering party and the dawn brings a new adventure


    4. Gunt was still lumbering back to his feet when Nathalia leapt out to meet them, a flock of old and crippled soldiers trailing behind


    5. No one could outrun a sabre cat; as stout as they were, their lumbering was treacherous


    6. Crew and conscripts alike gave the lumbering devil a wide berth as he passed


    7. Kay wondered if they had planned for this condition, because he was barely gone from the room before a group of Galeron’s men were lumbering back into the area burdened by heavy sacks of coins


    8. Crawling up the mountain behind the lumbering truck, thoughts of Beth slipped again into his mind


    9. While swishing past lumbering trucks, Leon improved the story, himself more the victim with each rehearsal


    10. The Wyverns looked awkward, lumbering, animals on land, a far cry from their native aquatic home

    11. Tourism is its main industry, but Tasmania has other important types of trade of fruits, especially apples, and lumbering


    12. Commercial lumbering, fishing, and the coal and iron ore docks symbolized the economic significance of these venerable Great Lakes ports


    13. Within a few minutes, the huffing bear, snuffing and still emitting whining growls, came lumbering back


    14. Through the growing white haze ahead, two menacing red forms came lumbering out to cross the trail, a smaller yellow flicker of movement behind indicated a further smaller beast was set back


    15. Jed came lumbering towards them, grasping Blossom’s collar whilst the dog snapped and barked hysterically


    16. I got mad, then-mad at my mother, at Grover the goat, at the thing with horns that was lumbering toward us slowly and deliberately like, like a bull


    17. A lumbering stone troll emerged from a straw-covered shack on a hilltop


    18. The mounted lich-troll turned to his lumbering ally


    19. The lumbering stone troll stooped to fit, dragging his metallic club behind him


    20. "Every lumbering season Michael the Red went up north where there was plenty of work for a good lumberjack

    21. These giant props pushed the lumbering aircraft off the ground boosted by jet engines that combined liquid hydrogen with oxygen from the air until the atmosphere grew so thin that liquid oxygen from the wing tanks was needed to support combustion


    22. Like two lumbering condors, the shuttles clawed for air as they rose over the landscape


    23. Flitting around in a P I is not the same as lumbering through space in kind of monster you’re flying now


    24. “Mom! Dad!” he blurted, feeling a bit of confusion coming over him as he took a couple lumbering steps into the parlor


    25. Amongst the larger beasts were smaller versions of the creatures that Joey identified as the offspring, moving at a livelier pace than the crushing, lumbering steps of their parents


    26. It should be lumbering, but instead it was lithe and unimaginably graceful, like a house doing ballet


    27. ” Before his speech could deteriorate further, Charlie’s heavy body barreled out the room, lumbering with grunts down the hallway to the exit


    28. Lezura opened her eyes and glimpsed Joey lumbering to his feet with what minuscule strength he had left and his only arm


    29. caring fifteen-year old boy who discovers that the rare white karmode bear that he sees is endangered by the lumbering industry, on the move to destroy the very place that Spirit Bear calls home


    30. With a deafening roar, the lumbering giant lifted reluctantly from the runway, into the clear blue sky over Egypt

    31. The most serious damage of all, the loss of seven hundred and forty nine American servicemen in the E Boat attack was blamed on the Royal Navy in failing to provide minimal protection for the lumbering LST’s


    32. lumbering, towering, fearsome giants that live on in modern imagination


    33. The noise was deafening, and the room was huge; in fact, it was the largest hall Midge had ever seen, and on several conveyor belts stretching from one end of the building to the other, a number of enormous Transport Ships were lumbering along


    34. Out the window facing the lake, Fred could make out a dark shape lumbering toward the school


    35. showed little sign of conscience before - or since - being accused by the lumbering U


    36. Ingrid met and passed a British military convoy on the highway as she was approaching Hanover in the middle of the afternoon, getting smiles and blown kisses from the soldiers as she sped by the lumbering trucks


    37. Lucy only took a dozen steps before she was noticed by one of the trolls that was lumbering about


    38. then he should have been able to survive an attack from a lumbering troll cross!


    39. The troll was lumbering towards Selene at speed


    40. But that lumbering beast who broke my tea-set! How could I possibly explain that at the Bridge Club!”

    41. He watched for signs of movement; lumbering troop trucks, alert soldiers or sweeper cars in pursuit


    42. With that, the farmer"s lumbering form disappeared into


    43. “Anyhow,” he said lumbering off into the adjoining area,


    44. Then, as all members of the Cavalli had been forced into the Aulus Forest, they were no longer the great horse-riding warriors they had once been but had instead become lumbering swordsmen on foot


    45. with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering for the fruit they bear at last in the air


    46. Lumbering around the sky in WWII fighters, via “live camera” we were treated to all the fun and frivolity that accompanied a “hit


    47. While Jeeter watched dumbfounded one of the beasts snatched an item from the screen and began to chatter excitedly, and it scampered away to place whatever it had found in the hamper at the rear of the lumbering apparatus


    48. Behind them, keeping pace with the lumbering beast, were the


    49. Shaggy called back, lumbering into the towering pine forest ahead, and her adorable baby followed


    50. I am too lumbering, too slow, too acutely conscious of my shortcomings for that; really too dull and too awkward for anything but a life almost entirely solitary





































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    Synonyms for "lumbering"

    lumbering heavy ponderous milling awkward blundering hulking bumbling ungainly

    "lumbering" definitions

    the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber


    slow and laborious because of weight