ENCUMBER in a Sentence
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29 example sentences for ENCUMBER, such as:
1. The casket would encumber you.
2. I don't want to encumber myself with unnecessary luggage.
3. Some people encumber themselves with too much luggage when they take short trips.
4. Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.
5. In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cocheres were encumbered with wounded.
2. I don't want to encumber myself with unnecessary luggage.
3. Some people encumber themselves with too much luggage when they take short trips.
4. Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.
5. In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cocheres were encumbered with wounded.
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Meanings and Examples of ENCUMBER
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encumber
v. burden; put a heavy load on; load with debts, or other legal claims
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 Again, not a very difficult condition with which to encumber such a rise in fortune; but if you have any objection to it, this is the time to mention it.
2 The casket would encumber you.
3 This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied his wants.
4 A dizzy multitude fills the roads, the paths, the bridges, the plains, the hills, the valleys, the woods, encumbered by this invasion of forty thousand men.
5 The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with horses and riders, inextricably heaped up.
6 The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a shed.
7 The grave-digger's dwelling was, like all such wretched habitations, an unfurnished and encumbered garret.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
Context Highlight In BOOK 8: CHAPTER VII—IN WHICH WILL BE FOUND THE ORIGIN OF THE SAYI...
8 By nine o'clock, more than eight hundred persons had been arrested, the Prefecture of Police was encumbered with them, so was the Conciergerie, so was La Force.
9 The hall on the first floor, where "the restaurant" was situated, was a large and long apartment encumbered with stools, chairs, benches, and tables, and with a crippled, lame, old billiard-table.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
Context Highlight In BOOK 12: CHAPTER I—HISTORY OF CORINTHE FROM ITS FOUNDATION
10 In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cocheres were encumbered with wounded.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—THE CHARYBDIS OF THE FAUBOURG SAINT ANTOINE AND...
11 He introduced him into the drawing-room, still encumbered and topsy-turvy, and which bore the air of a field of battle after the joys of the preceding evening.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—THE SEVENTH CIRCLE AND THE EIGHTH HEAVEN
12 She doubted Mrs. Van Osburgh's reluctance, but was aware of Miss Farish's habit of ascribing her own delicacies of feeling to the persons least likely to be encumbered by them.
13 In the red glow from the fire-box, a group of people stood huddled together on the platform, encumbered by bundles and boxes.
14 They went together, picking their way across muddy streets and sidewalks encumbered with the cheap display of small tradesmen.
15 But the impetuous young men were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora, the Hurons were losing ground in the race.
Example Sentence:
1 Some people encumber themselves with too much luggage when they take short trips.
2 I don't want to encumber myself with unnecessary luggage.
3 Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.