CUMBROUS in a Sentence

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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.

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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.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In III. A CASE OF IDENTITY
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.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
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
4  Hampered by the shadowy boughs and his cumbrous spoil, Euryalus in his fright misses the line of way.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK NINTH
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