Sentence examples for were encumbered from inspiring English sources
verb
To load down something with a burden
Taxpayers – especially in finance-dependent countries like Britain, Iceland, Ireland, Spain, and the United States – were encumbered with enormous bills.
Butler sought to demonstrate that nature and natural religion were encumbered with the same kind of uncertainties as revealed religion.
More often, lobbies were encumbered by the meretricious ornamentation that developers, both past and present, seem to think will attract buyers.
Slipper chairs were originally intended as low-to-the-ground seating for well-to-do women of the Victorian era who were encumbered by corsets and petticoats and needed a convenient place to sit while putting on stockings and slippers.
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.
As far as he could see, he was cock of the walk: many of the men in Sunset suffered from diseases that Horace had so far escaped, or they were not as good-looking or as thin, or they were encumbered by wives they loved.
Genius cannot be encumbered.
You look professional without being encumbered.
Black is encumbered by no such constraints.
And many assets are encumbered with legal issues.
