Example sentences for: cumbersome

How can you use “cumbersome” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Committee of Correspondence was redesigned on the fly, three days after our launch, when it became clear the original design (one very long page) was too cumbersome.

  • I quite agree that African-American is both cumbersome and undescriptive; I am also aware that many blacks do not use the term: Jesse Jackson uses black , and the NAACP has retained Colored People in its name.

  • Magnetic resonance imaging is expensive, cumbersome, and still experimental.

  • As such, it may prove cumbersome for describing massively parallel systems (such as the coupled expression of thousands of genes) or continuum systems (such as the wave propagation of cytoplasmic calcium).

  • There has been a great deal of cant in the past 30 years to the effect that Dior's era forced helpless women into a posture of submission with its fussily constructed garments, cumbersome skirts, cinched waists, and rigid hairstyles, crippling their feet in high heels and imprisoning their hands in white gloves.


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