lumbering's Usage Examples:

Lucullus charged downhill with his cohorts and his orders soon proved decisive: the lumbering cataphracts were caught by surprise and, in their attempts to break free from their attackers, careered into the ranks of their own men as the lines began to collapse.

James English " convict leasingWhile he was not descended from the antebellum era aristocracy and had never owned a slave before emancipation, by 1897 his enterprises controlled 1,206 of Georgia's 2,881 convict laborers, engaged in brick making, cutting cross ties, lumbering, railroad construction, and turpentining.

was nominated for being the birthplace of the region"s seminal industry—lumbering—and a major landing on its crucial transportation route, the St.

at the Serpentine Gallery, describing it as being "full of lumbering inanities".

Strikes" and "Joanie"s Butterfly" and the rest "variously lumbering, untuneful and forced", and concluded that, although Aerosmith "could barely function".

shot victory and Pink Star was described by contemporary sources as a lumbering and ugly mount.

A notable episode has Ultra Seven blundering about a hilltop and accidentally causing a rockslide that awakens a slumbering.

The name translates as "the dormant one" or "the one slumbering" (akin to the Danish and Norwegian "dvale" and Swedish "dvala", meaning.

During the period 1900 to 1915, Osceola was a sizable lumbering town of several hundred loggers, timbermen, sawmill operators and saloonkeepers.

a thin crust which may at any time be rent by the subterranean forces slumbering beneath.

comes with bland guitar solos, chugging drums, lumbering time changes and otiose lyrics about "getting to know the empty space/Beneath the surface of common.

1915, Osceola was a sizable lumbering town of several hundred loggers, timbermen, sawmill operators and saloonkeepers who made the most of the then booming.

The Paul Bunyan Logging Camp Museum, which opened in 1934, portrays the town's lumbering history and contains seven authentic logging camp buildings.

Synonyms:

heavy-footed, heavy, ponderous,

Antonyms:

effortless, interesting, light, light-footed,