Verb (used with object) : We lumbered more than a million acres last year. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : overloaded wagons lumbering down the dirt road. From Dictionary.com.
I am a huge fan of fast, movie style fiction, so the slow lumbering is too much for me. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Counted In Pages Meme - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn] Reference
Brockman: Yes, well … Homer, organized labor has been called a lumbering dinosaur …. From Wordnik.com. [The Big Lead] Reference
Didn't you see the 263 word lumbering monster of a comment I painfully and needlessly deposited late yesterday evening. From Wordnik.com. [Urban Tools: Curatorial Commitment] Reference
Commercial activities such as lumbering were also allowed. From Wordnik.com. [Wood Buffalo National Park, Canada] Reference
The foot through the motel lifted off like some kind of lumbering rocket ship. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-10-01] Reference
If puppeteers can describe a movement as "lumbering" or "stiff," so can designers. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"We have an accord that's kind of lumbering down the runway, and we need it to get enough speed so it can take off," Stern said. From Wordnik.com. [ajc.com - News] Reference
"lumbering," indeed, but, like his own sword, sharp as well as heavy. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
Look at you, you big lumbering slob, she screamed. From Wordnik.com. [Living With an Inability to Do Math] Reference
Tiny pleasure boats flit beside lumbering cruise ships. From Wordnik.com. [Turkey Turns Focus To Tanker-Clogged Strait] Reference
But in this case, though huge, Goliath is not lumbering. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Anderson: David & Goliath: Corrections Officers and Corporate Interests] Reference
I fingered my Native shades while he approached my car, lumbering. From Wordnik.com. [Beautiful Girls] Reference
This century, they dote on robots, jet packs and lumbering giraffes. From Wordnik.com. [Geekapalooza] Reference
Her solution included flying lumbering C-130 cargo planes off aircraft carriers. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Fight, Those Who Decide] Reference
Compare that with the lumbering tech dinosaur that was the Fred Thompson campaign. From Wordnik.com. [Talking Tech] Reference
By freeing grain prices, the state can stop subsidizing lumbering collective farms. From Wordnik.com. [Yeltsin's Free-Market Offensive] Reference
It's not terrible just lumbering and humorless and pretentious, with a drag of a hero. From Wordnik.com. ['Inception' A Masterpiece? Only In Someone's Dream] Reference
Then he would walk away, in his own inimitable lumbering style, smiling the whole time. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie Lamond Simone: Parents May Have More to Learn About Special Needs Than Kids] Reference
I see Robby across the room, laughing, lumbering around, big and loud, always big and loud. From Wordnik.com. [Goddess] Reference
Sea turtles, lumbering ashore on Mexico's Pacific coast to lay eggs, by bright hotel lights. From Wordnik.com. [Beware Of The Humans] Reference
SIMON: Because to children, adults are big and lumbering and not always sensible, like bears. From Wordnik.com. [An Illustrated Visit to a Bear's Lair] Reference
Economic ties alone can't justify one nation lumbering into another to put right great wrongs. From Wordnik.com. [Yes, There Is A National Interest] Reference
I thought of the Academy players, of their lumbering sprints in the bulky armor of their pads. From Wordnik.com. [To Be A Child (Part II of III)] Reference
Obama's official agenda each day is to underline his efforts to jump-start the lumbering economy. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Fundraiser Plea: 'Don't Give In To Fear'] Reference
It was used to diminish the snow layers on woodland roads, for easier accessibility when lumbering. From Wordnik.com. [MAIL CALL: A TYRANT ON TRIAL] Reference
By the end of the first week, I was lumbering around my apartment, feeling clumsy and angry with myself. From Wordnik.com. [I Wonder: Was It Me Or Was It My Sari?] Reference
The latest long-haulers ordered up by big truck lines like J.B. Hunt are basically lumbering living rooms. From Wordnik.com. [On A (Bed) Roll] Reference
But the worst part for whatever hapless oaf who comes lumbering along and steps on my trap will be the fall. From Wordnik.com. [Book of Genesis] Reference
(Soundbite of "Rite of Spring") Ms. ALSOP: The picture I have in my mind really are these lumbering dinosaurs. From Wordnik.com. [The Primitive Pulse of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring'] Reference
Meanwhile, stuck behind these lumbering posses, I'm desperately trying to scoot by so I can get on the next train. From Wordnik.com. [Laura Weiss: Subway Tourism Trauma: Is It Really so Great That Tourism Is Up in New York?] Reference
The more pregnant you get, the more people stare and pass comment, as if in the presence of a giant, lumbering freak. From Wordnik.com. [I'm very pregnant - and people are unbelievably rude to me!] Reference
There are fewer than 200 of the lumbering but lethal A-10 tankbusters affectionately known to ground warriors as "wart hogs.". From Wordnik.com. ['We'll Win, But...'] Reference
Despite improvements that came along for 2007, the out-going Equinox still had lumbering handling and a cheap-looking interior. From Wordnik.com. [Pricing: 2010 Chevrolet Equinox] Reference
Better for American troops to arrive as peacekeepers by day, in orderly convoys of helicopters, hovercraft and lumbering C-130s. From Wordnik.com. [Here We Go Again] Reference
Small companies have younger, cheaper work forces and can move more nimbly in deregulating markets than Japan's lumbering giants. From Wordnik.com. [Will The Rising Sun Shine?] Reference
But it's more likely that the Kremlin will choose to bail out its friends and various lumbering state corporations, however inefficient. From Wordnik.com. [Out Of Pocket] Reference
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