Sentence examples for lumbering background from inspiring English sources
"We're seeing an end to the stereotype of the tuba as a lumbering, background instrument," Mr. Akins said.
When lack of rainfall depletes the rivers where the bears feed on salmon, he performs a manic religious rite, calling for the intervention of God, Jesus, Allah, and "the Hindu floaty thing"; at another excruciating point, while he blathers to the camera about wilderness and death, one of the objects of his devotion lumbers towards him from the background.
A former lumber mill worker, he had a seemingly pristine, if prosaic, background.
The Casa da Ciência offers a scientific background to Amazon ecology, including the threats facing the rainforest such as illegal lumber, mining, dams and urban sprawl.
BENJAMIN HOFFMAN Who's Lumbering Now?
Lumbering is also economically important.
Seasoning, in lumbering, drying lumber to prepare it for use.
Lumbering 200-pound sea bass.
The physical transformations are lumbering.
