[
UK
/lˈʌmbəɹɪŋ/
]
[ US /ˈɫəmbɝɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈɫəmbɝɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
slow and laborious because of weight
the heavy tread of tired troops
moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot
a ponderous yawn
ponderous prehistoric beasts
NOUN
- the trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
How To Use lumbering In A Sentence
- That call my slumbering life to wake to happy things. A Book of Strife in the Form of The Diary of an Old Soul
- One minister counseled his people, let us do nothing to rekindle the slumbering fires of prejudice between the two races. A Renegade History of the United States
- Cats were slumbering noisily beneath the TV set and a smallish party of utter strangers were drinking Harp in the saloon lounge. DEATH OF AN UNKNOWN MAN
- Perhaps the biggest myth Yi dispelled was that he's some kind of big lumbering center.
- It's not fun, it does hurt, abominably, and I do feel like a lumbering bear, huffing and puffing like Pooh on a bad day.
- In their opening and closing games England's lumbering back four were hopelessly outmanoeuvred by bursts of fast, mobile, unpredictable attacks, like tankers anchored as speedboats darted around them.
- During this time, all the big herbivores and carnivores were great lumbering creatures; some of which may have been semi-aquatic, while others were fully terrestrial.
- The drums often play not so much a beat or a pulse, but lumbering repetitions - just as Eastburn's violin at the start of ‘Repent’ is the weariest sawing I've ever heard.
- I am a huge fan of fast, movie style fiction, so the slow lumbering is too much for me. The Life Counted In Pages Meme - by Joanna Penn | The Creative Penn
- Currently, he says, enough waste biomass is being generated by lumbering, by farming, and as urban waste to meet 10 percent of U.S. transportation needs.