A summer resort...encumbered with great clapboard-and-stucco hotels.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : Red tape encumbers all our attempts at action. ,a mind encumbered with trivial and useless information. ,She was encumbered with a suitcase and several packages.    From Dictionary.com. 

Bourgeois revolutionaries were "encumbered" by these ideas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Self-Evident Truths?] Reference

McCall says Reed and his new team should be able to make their reforms without being "encumbered" by the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2003] Reference

McCall says, Reed and the new team should be able to make their reforms without being, quote, "encumbered" by the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Sep 28, 2003] Reference

This choice, though, is to be exercised by a stripped-down version of the individual: one who is no longer "encumbered" (to use a liberal term) by what is inherited or inborn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oz Conservative] Reference

We're not smarter than NIH, but we're less encumbered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Search For A Vaccine] Reference

Its exterior is irregular, and encumbered with houses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The South of France—East Half] Reference

We were alone in the world, encumbered with heavy debts and.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

His mind is encumbered by a fixation on the holocaust and Hitler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ahmed Moor: America Cannot Go to War for Israel] Reference

There are plenty of less-encumbered competitors eager to outdo Frist.    From Wordnik.com.  [TORN BETWEEN FAITH & SCIENCE] Reference

It's difficult to work towards your goals if you're encumbered by stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilaina Edison: Elder Independence: 50? Welcome to the Rest of Your Life] Reference

Asian countries seem less encumbered by ethical concerns over new technologies.    From Wordnik.com.  [A CONFLICT OF VALUES] Reference

Each of the Beatles must feel a little lighter these days, a little less encumbered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Come Together] Reference

Too many of his countrymen still opted for the comfortable, if debt-encumbered, status quo.    From Wordnik.com.  [STEALTH REFORMER] Reference

The lumbering wagons, encumbered with much heavy and unnecessary baggage, made slow progress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tecumseh A Chronicle of the Last Great Leader of His People; Vol. 17 of Chronicles of Canada] Reference

The agonized Smith, accompanied by a few of his best woodsmen, pursued the spoil-encumbered foe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference

Behind her you could see the baby-encumbered preparations for a morning of baby-encumbered errands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Franzen On The Book, The Backlash, His Background] Reference

Singapore by taxi on roads bordered by beautiful, lush landscaping and rarely encumbered with too much traffic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Road Warrior] Reference

The furniture, the carpet, the mantel-piece were encumbered, almost buried under a heterogeneous mass of things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

She rose, pushed away with her foot the stalks and pods, which encumbered the passage, and replied, very shortly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

The truth he had was encumbered for a time with a great deal of error; but it was owned and blessed notwithstanding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Love's Final Victory] Reference

He thought this would be a very easy matter, but he soon found that it was encumbered with inextricable difficulties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

In the midst of the jewelry which encumbered the salon was a full marquise's coronet set in precious stones and pearls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

How to manage alone, and thus encumbered, was the problem, and they solved it frequently by marrying shortly a neighbor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Domestic Life in Virginia in the Seventeenth Century] Reference

And during that conflict especially, with the most formidable enemies she ever had, she could not afford to be encumbered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference

Throughout the East it is only the barefooted peasant or the sandalled mountaineer who does not seem encumbered by his feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference

"From the Gucci perspective, running the company efficiently could have been encumbered by this family management structure.".    From Wordnik.com.  [It's All In The Bag] Reference

United Staten with dispatches, traveling two thousand miles almost alone, in preference to being encumbered by a large party.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

It was indeed the rear coach of the stalled passenger train, and, a moment later, Joe was climbing the snow-encumbered steps.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baseball Joe in the Big League or, A Young Pitcher's Hardest Struggles] Reference

This if thou also shalt use to do, thou shalt rid thyself of that manifold luggage, wherewith thou art round about encumbered.    From Wordnik.com.  [Meditations] Reference

With the press and Congress in full cry, the FBI and CIA were encumbered with a new set of rules to guard against future abuses.    From Wordnik.com.  [How He'll Haunt Us] Reference

That, as this command is designed to operate by water, it will not be encumbered with much land transportation, say two wagons to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference

But some, perhaps many, states may decide that the process has now become intolerably encumbered with anomalous regulations and will stop electing judges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conan Doyle School Of Law] Reference