CUMBROUS in a Sentence
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Example sentences for CUMBROUS, such as:
1. These pretended journeys to France were rather cumbrous.
2. Hampered by the shadowy boughs and his cumbrous spoil, Euryalus in his fright misses the line of way.
2. Hampered by the shadowy boughs and his cumbrous spoil, Euryalus in his fright misses the line of way.
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Meanings and Examples of CUMBROUS
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cumbrous
a. difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight
Classic Sentence:
1 These pretended journeys to France were rather cumbrous.
2 Now to the historical, for as Madam Mina write not in her stenography, I must, in my cumbrous old fashion, that so each day of us may not go unrecorded.
3 Monasteries, when they abound in a nation, are clogs in its circulation, cumbrous establishments, centres of idleness where centres of labor should exist.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—THE CONVENT AS AN HISTORICAL FACT
4 Hampered by the shadowy boughs and his cumbrous spoil, Euryalus in his fright misses the line of way.
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