Sentence examples for lumbered from inspiring English sources

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The word "lumbered" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used as a verb meaning "to move heavily and clumsily due to being tired, or carrying a large amount of weight". Example sentence: After a long day of work, the farmer lumbered home, exhausted.

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lumbered

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With Terminator-like indefatigability, The Tale of Two Celebrities lumbered on.

For the second half Franz Beckenbauer, the West German coach, replaced the struggling Allofs with Voeller but the change made little immediate difference to the game's pattern except that as the Germans lumbered forward in greater numbers they were more likely to be caught thinly covered at the back.

Tyson just lumbered around.

She lumbered her party with a "poll tax" which required both dukes and dustmen to pay exactly the same for their local-government services a tax so unpopular that her Tory successor rescinded it.

While so many other countries are lumbered with huge, unaffordable state pension benefits paid from taxes on workers, Britain has done relatively well in building up funded occupational and personal plans.

Executives are lumbered with two overlapping workdays: a formal one full of meetings and an informal one spent trying to keep up with the torrent of e-mails and messages.None of this is good for businesspeople's marriages or mental health.

His son, who is lumbered with the name Gogol Ganguli, studies architecture at Yale and acquires an All-American girlfriend, rich, blonde and well-connected.Mr Ganguli is part of a huge army of immigrants who have brought their brains and enthusiasm to the United States not just Indians and Pakistanis but also Chinese, Koreans and Europeans.

Neither São Paulo's international airport nor its domestic one will have train connections before the city hosts the opening game.Too much pride is at stake to hope 2013 will see a rethinkDeciding to have 12 host cities, when eight would have sufficed, means that Brazil will be lumbered with a herd of white elephants after the tournament.

The Russians are now lumbered with the second part of this deal without gaining the benefits of the first.

Chancellor Helmut Kohl, who has lumbered uninspiringly through the campaign, has begun to resemble a cornered elephant devilishly hard to bring down.Until this week, it had all been looking very different.

Their owners will be lumbered with "stranded costs".

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