Sentence examples for necessary encumbrance from inspiring English sources

True, he seems to wear his head as if it were an annoying but necessary encumbrance, but then don't we all from time to time?

And I looked on the training analysis as a loathsome, unnecessary encumbrance.

Yaghdan's résumé was an encumbrance.

An exquisite shot became an encumbrance.

Sansom's production has one encumbrance.

To Mr. Dover, Mr. Aston was a weighty professional encumbrance.

WASP-dom, an encumbrance to the fully realized emotional life, we have heard.

America would free itself of the encumbrance of formal alliances and multilateral diplomacy.

"It's an incredible encumbrance on the operations of the department".

As Alibhai-Brown remarks "the gowns impede free movement; they are an encumbrance ….

As gorgeous as it is, the male peacock's tail is a ridiculous encumbrance.