Example Sentences

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Since 2011, Fukushima has been saddled with the staggering burden of the meltdown’s aftermath that, despite government PR, will encumber and stigmatise its citizens for at least several decades.

From The Guardian • Mar. 16, 2018

The dance may be mimetic; but the beauty and verve of the performance, not closeness of the imitation impresses; and tame additions of truth will encumber and not convince.

From Ancient Art and Ritual by Harrison, Jane Ellen

"If thou art well, I will encumber thee with a journey," continued the king; "thou shalt announce to Marsk Stig's daughters that they are free."

From King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 3 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. by Ingemann, Bernhard Severin

Blessings on this kind of friend! say I; the friend who will encumber himself with the responsibility of thinking what's to become of you, when you are down in the world.

From Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty

He wants nothing that will encumber him, and your watch would only be a nuisance when the water had soaked in.

From Nat the Naturalist A Boy's Adventures in the Eastern Seas by Anonymous