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. Lead weights and air cylinders encumbered the divers as they walked to the shore.
4. Some people encumber themselves with too much luggage when they take short trips.
5. In the neighborhood, the spaces beneath the portes cocheres were encumbered with wounded.

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 Meanings and Examples of ENCUMBER
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
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.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
2  The casket would encumber you.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 21 THE COUNTESS DE WINTER
3  This quarter of an acre, so poorly planted, so encumbered with mean buildings and sheds, was dear to him, and satisfied his wants.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—WHAT HE BELIEVED
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.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
5  The edges of the hollow road were encumbered with horses and riders, inextricably heaped up.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIX—THE BATTLE-FIELD AT NIGHT
6  The building was a sort of ruin, where dismantled chambers were distinguishable, one of which, much encumbered, seemed to serve as a shed.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
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...
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.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 10: CHAPTER V—ORIGINALITY OF PARIS
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
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...
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
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.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 8
13  In the red glow from the fire-box, a group of people stood huddled together on the platform, encumbered by bundles and boxes.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: I
14  They went together, picking their way across muddy streets and sidewalks encumbered with the cheap display of small tradesmen.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXIII
15  But the impetuous young men were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora, the Hurons were losing ground in the race.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
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.