Example sentences for: lumbering

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

  • Volpes ( volpe fox) were cunning, Orsinos ( orso bear) lumbering, Manzos ( manzo bullock) taciturn, Botolinos ( botolo snapping cur) irascible, Cagnas ( cagna bitch) surly, and Buffas ( buffa Sicilian dialect for toad) detestable.

  • One of the Clubbers, Eric Alterman, had called Buckley's book "a lumbering, themeless pudding of a novel that forces one's eyelids shut like an invisible vise."

  • That lumbering pace, though, has raised new fears of flooding in southern Texas.

  • USA Today 's Mike Clark gives the film its only pan, citing a "lumbering" story and "soulless" sex scenes.

  • It growls and snaps at the air, and though it does manage to stomp one victim (who, in a nice touch, sticks to the bottom of its foot like a piece of gum), in general it moves with such a lumbering gait that we might as well be back in the '60s watching Valley of the Gwangi . Where is the lethal swiftness of the predator?


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