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Example sentences for "lumbered"

Lexicographically close words:
lulls; luma; lumbago; lumbar; lumber; lumberer; lumberers; lumbering; lumberjack; lumberjacks
  1. Norton got out at the Shadywalk hotel; and the omnibus lumbered on through Butternut Street to the parsonage gate and drew up at last before the old brown door.

  2. Indeed David had some difficulty in finding the knocker; and meanwhile the omnibus lumbered off, while they were not attending.

  3. The lordly oryx crossed our path; the ungainly hartebeest lumbered away to windward at a pace which made pursuit hopeless; the gazelles of the desert fled before us like thistledown borne on an eddying wind.

  4. The hour of rest soon came to an end; once more the oxen were yoked and our wagon lumbered on.

  5. In the morning the three wagons lumbered on.

  6. The chuck wagon veered past the herd and lumbered up the valley and the wrangler and one other followed with the horse herd.

  7. And with that the colonel lifted Mrs. Culpepper off her feet and kissed her, then lumbered down the steps and strode away.

  8. Behind them lumbered the great creature that carried the bullets of Mr. Dacre and Tom in his gigantic carcass.

  9. The bears lumbered steadily forward till they were wading through the tall, half dry grass that grew almost up to the shack's sides.

  10. Also, traveling with a pack on one's back was much easier here than in the lumbered country.

  11. Also in a lumbered country, where water is the only means of transportation for logs, all log-roads run downhill and ultimately lead to river or lake.

  12. Off to the neighbourhood of the Orange and the Vaal Rivers lumbered the long waggon trains drawn by innumerable oxen, bearing, to pastures new and undefiled by the British, the irate Boers and their household gods.

  13. Many of the emigrants admitted themselves to be British subjects and remained there, but the great majority took to their waggons and lumbered back across the Drakenberg to their old settling-place.

  14. In another moment she bestrode the bear, and the big beast lumbered up the street with its rider.

  15. In another moment she bestrode the bear, the crowd fell apart, and as the onlookers broke into a roar of applause the big beast lumbered slowly up the street with its rider.

  16. If a wagon had not lumbered by as she reached the lowest step, so that she must wait and thus had time to lower her veil, she would have been recognized at once by the little Georgiev, waiting to ascend.

  17. An oxcart, laden with vegetables for the market, lumbered along the streets.

  18. The wild moon drifted behind a cloud, the sea darkened, something huge and shadowy lumbered down to the water and splashed heavily away, the cat owl hooted.

  19. After some searching, he discovered the small object cowering down in the mist, handed me a letter, with a muttered oath at being intercepted on such a night, and lumbered on and out of sight in three rods.

  20. The coach lumbered on, and rattled up, and passed.

  21. The next day the coach lumbered up and rattled past, and did not stop,--and the next, and the next.

  22. But in they piled, regardless of trains, corpulency, or height; and coach after coach lumbered away to the church.

  23. Away lumbered one diligence after the other, the first drawn by seven horses, the second by five, while the carrier's little cart with one brought up the rear.

  24. He lumbered awkwardly to his feet and sat stolidly down again as though moved by invisible strings.

  25. Very sullenly he lumbered to his feet and stepped back a pace, his fists still doubled.

  26. You are very good, sir; but I am sure I can make the inquiry for myself.

  27. The bushes directly in front of him parted, and, with a grunt like that of an overfed hog, a gigantic grizzly bear lumbered into the little clearing under the boughs of the tree.

  28. As the ’bus lumbered away, half a dozen excited individuals dashed out of the hotel door and shouted for the driver to draw up.

  29. Antelope came up in bands and gratified their curiosity as to who these invaders might be, while old solitary buffalo bulls turned tail at our approach and lumbered away to points of safety.

  30. A single "woof" brought one of the cubs to her side, and she dropped on all fours and lumbered off, a half dozen shots hastening her pace in an effort to circle the horsemen who were gradually closing in.

  31. A great hackney-coach nigh mired in mud as it lumbered through mid-road.

  32. We lumbered up through the straggling village in one of those clumsy coaches that had late become the terror of foot-passengers in London crowds.

  33. The elephants lumbered swiftly in file through the deserted city, for it was now emptied of its inhabitants.

  34. Frank felt himself quivering all through as they closed with the derelict yard by yard, until when she once more lumbered round to windward Jake put down his helm a little farther.

  35. However, we were now bent upon paying Spoof a neighbourly call in any case, and when at last our oxen lumbered up we found him gazing somewhat ruefully upon a heap of smouldering embers.

  36. The old coach, creaking ominously, lumbered and rolled down the avenue.


  37. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lumbered" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.