Example Sentences

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In consequence, our civic machinery was, and still can be, lumberingly ineffective.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 3, 2025

But as they lumberingly circle the ring – trading insults, playing to the gallery – it becomes harder to tell which is which.

From The Guardian • Jun. 14, 2018

It’s a precept that covers her Long Island menagerie, which includes, besides poultry and bees, three goats, a small herd of sheep and Pepe and Boris, her lumberingly overgrown pigs.

From New York Times • May 10, 2018

But the play as a whole is lumberingly lurid, and Alvin Epstein's Claudius offers some adroit stammering that is more effective than anyone else's speech.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our father plays touch tag -with us on the beach in the evenings, running lumberingly like a bear, laughing at the same time, wuff wuff wuff.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood