Sentence examples for an encumbrance from inspiring English sources

An exquisite shot became an encumbrance.

Yaghdan's résumé was an encumbrance.

WASP-dom, an encumbrance to the fully realized emotional life, we have heard.

As Alibhai-Brown remarks "the gowns impede free movement; they are an encumbrance ….

"Don't you have an encumbrance with the Knicks?" Rowe recalled Stern asking him.

Even the most compact laptop would be an encumbrance on a walk through the Lake District.

This is not an encumbrance, Governor, it is a civic duty.

Sadly, though, the clothes on Ahmed prove to be an encumbrance.

Lord St. John said the new activism was becoming an encumbrance to managers.

In Reagan's administrations, scorn for treaties and international organizations as an encumbrance on American power was rife, but not dominant.

In the last two wars (the Arabian gulf and Kosovo), Europe proved to be more of an encumbrance than an ally.