Sentence examples for cumber from inspiring English sources

Sentence The word 'cumber' is not a correctly used or understood word in written English.
It is often confused with 'encumber', or used as a form of the verb 'to encumber'. An example sentence with the correct word 'encumber' would be: "The heavy workload encumbered him with too much stress".

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cumber

verb

To slow down; to hinder; to burden.

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However, cumber some and bureaucratic laws have much it difficult to recruit staff from there.

In the moments before her reckless surrender in the wild wood, she is pictured wearing "a dress of thin, creamy material, which, whilst seeming to cumber her as little as garments could, yet fitted closely enough to declare the healthy beauty of her form".

Mrs A. M. Walden: Ham actor dashing off set has a few (Cumber(batch) + some; ham2).

This world he cumber'd long enough; He burnt his candle to the snuff; And that's the reason, some folks think, He left behind so great a s----k.

The Los Angeles store is a mecca for soda enthusiasts around the world, stocking everything from Fentiman's Curiosity Cola (below) to oddities like Mr Q. Cumber Soda.

Bananas is one of three new series released by Mr Davies for Channel 4, the other two being Cumber, and Tofu, the latter of which is only available online.

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The current six-party talks with North Korea were inherently cumber-some and slow-moving: "The [South] Korean and American governments need to come up with a new formula for persuading and pressuring the North".

"There were 13 likely scenarios," Benedict rumbled from beneath his Cumber-thatch.

Mr Cumbers had previously worked for both ITN and Channel 4 and also set up his own production company with his wife Louise.

In his 2007 book Blood and Sand, in which he recounts his experience of being shot and left for dead, the BBC correspondent described Mr Cumbers as a man of "endless patience and good humour" who had a "kind and big-hearted family".

By ninety, bent and crooked, she is homeless: "A useless cumberer / on the earth / From house to house / they send her forth".

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