Sentence examples for the encumbered from inspiring English sources

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the encumbered

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To load down something with a burden

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Here she stretches them more quietly in what has become a familiar genre: a domestic novel about characters struggling to decode the lean messages of suburban existence through the encumbered signals that carry them.

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He did not wish to burden his writing at that early moment in his career with the encumbering weight of Jewish history.

I imagine it being sung by some fisherman, in his sea salt-crusted Wellingtons and Pendleton wool sweater, reeking of the fisheries, encumbered by the welterweight embrace of his adoring son.

3 With 3- and 4-substituted bromocyclohexane derivatives, a number of reports have demonstrated the preferential incorporation of the "nucleophilic" component into the less encumbered equatorial position in iron-catalysed cross-coupling reactions [e.g., Scheme 1 (i)].

"The more encumbered our judgment, the better," he said.

He is their most experienced and principled horse, but he's also the oldest and the most encumbered by Bush and Iraq baggage.

The less encumbered by stuff you are the freer you are to tell the truth.

Notably, the attempt by Protasiewicz and co-workers to generate the analogous bis(borane) adduct from the sterically encumbered phosphanylidene phosphorane (2,6-Mes2C6H3 -P=PMe3 5 a failed and only the monoborane adduct 5 a⋅BH3 was isolated and spectroscopically characterized.

The FCC is selling the spectrum "encumbered", which is to say already occupied by television stations in most regions.

The ironclad Weehawken led the attack, encumbered by a large raft attached to her bow fitted with grappling hooks to snag the devices.

Though London was the traditional hub for Asian art in the West, the city has become eclipsed by New York, as taxes and dictates from the European Union have encumbered the trade in England.

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