Sentence examples for cumbersome thing from inspiring English sources

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But I go with Jason that there's the real opportunity for the revitalization of what has become a cumbersome thing.

She'd brought a wheelbarrow, too, a cumbersome thing with an iron wheel and stripped branches for handles.

Despite my love of this whizziness, I can't help but feel that, while I can reduce my commute by 10-15 mInutes, I am losing it elsewhere: lugging the chain around or carrying the cumbersome thing up steps.

Although the Kevlar canoe weighs only 40lb and comes equipped with a horseshoe-shaped portage pad that fits around the neck and shoulders, it is still 16ft long, a cumbersome thing to carry through the forest and marshes.

"I remember being taken aback because she fished this big, cumbersome thing out of her pocketbook, and I thought, what is that?" Mr. Koda, the curator of the Museum's Fashion Institute, said that not only was it an unexpected form of communication, but she was already in her 80's.

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Sentiments like the Grabowskis' reflect a resurgence of interest in vinyl recordings, those big, cumbersome things once banished to dusty attics by all but audiophile diehards.

And while a 40 square foot hot pink outdoor poof, however inviting, isn't exactly on my shopping list, there are plenty of less cumbersome things to admire and actually pick up for the home, including some little known designs by the legendary but sometimes overlooked genius William Katavolos.

I'm totally grateful, not least because he was the only person who was going to buy this quite large, cumbersome, crazy thing.

On the set of The Night Manager, she's reminded, Hiddleston used to quiz her about the meaning of Australian slang words such as "dag" and "daggy"; she points a thumb at her backpack, a cumbersome, canvas thing: "This is daggy".

"But it was an awfully clumsy, cumbersome sort of thing".

The Democrats' proportional system makes that calculation cumbersome, but two things are clear: Clinton and Obama are almost neck-and-neck and far from the clinching total.

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