Sentence examples for encumbered with a from inspiring English sources

The press is encumbered with a growing battery of rules.

In an unfortunate effort at education, the performance was encumbered with a part for the composer as narrator.

Carlyle's wife, Jane, gossiped that "Mrs. Taylor, tho' encumbered with a husband and children, has ogled John Mill so successfully that he was desperately in love".

Thus encumbered with a burden that could not be borne – she had become her own ugly baggage – she stumbled awkwardly on to the path of self-discovery.

Leading the attack was the ironclad monitor Weehawken, which was encumbered with a huge anti-torpedo raft lashed to her bow.

But I was encumbered with a stereotype, and the bad news is that statement was an accurate reflection of my belief at the time.

MoMA is encumbered with an abundance of masterpieces that demand to be displayed; amid such riches, Latin American art is inevitably relegated to a supporting role.

Worse, they were encumbered with an election manifesto written in the belief that it would not have to be implemented and so promising a host of reforms that no prudent finance minister would want to pay for.

Nevertheless he's the TV doctor you would most want to visit if you ever found yourself encumbered with an inexplicably obscure illness, even if you did spend your recuperation contemplating the irony of Neighbours alumni Jesse Spencer following in his fictional father's footsteps.

Finn, who is reading philosophy, arrives from London with her half-French "dark horse" university friend Ava, and the rest of them tumble out of the Hotel Hoppa minibus, encumbered with an overload of vanity cases and suitcases full of shoes, bikinis, cigarettes, condoms, hair-straighteners, an iron and more.

Written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell, who turns in a spectacular lead performance, "Hedwig" follows the travails of the title character, a would-be rock star and survivor of a botched sex-change operation that has left her encumbered with an unwanted and embarrassing vestige of masculinity.