burdened

How To Use burdened In A Sentence

• Cultural practices have survived or fallen only in part because of their effect on the strength of the group, and those which have survived are usually burdened with unnecessary impedimenta.
• Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
• They play urban refugees - an unhappily married man and a coffee-shop girl burdened by her ill father - on the threshold of potential love.
• He finally reached Bear Dooley's half-closed office door, which was burdened with numerous layers of thick brown paint. THE X FILES 3: GROUND ZERO
• Inmates feel isolated and are already overburdened by the tension of courts and hearings.
• And when thou hast done it, to let me understand what he saith, that I may dye the more contentedly, and disburdened of so heavy an oppression, the onely comfort to a parting spirit: and so she ceased, her teares flowing forth abundantly. The Decameron
• Older manufacturing companies are burdened with tremendous health care costs for retired employees.
• This feeling is very strong in many apartment houses where small rooms are overburdened by this kind of wainscot, and to make matters worse, the top is used as a plate-rail. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today
• He unburdened a horse of its load.
• While the idea of people telling their stories is attractive in theory, in practice the courts are overburdened as it is.