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Examples of lumbering
lumbering
It fluctuated between mining, lumbering, dairying, ranching and orchard farming.
From the thestate.com
One-company lumbering town which boomed from 1899 until the mill burned in 1931.
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The lumbering, money-losing giant finally sees that gas engines are a losing bet.
From the businessweek.com
There is rarely any lumbering around corners or over-thickness in the textures.
From the ocregister.com
He's as inevitable a force as a 300-car freight train lumbering down the track.
From the usatoday.com
So Artemis and Butler, his lumbering sidekick, hunker down to await their prey.
From the time.com
Suddenly, I heard a thump thump kind of lumbering rumble moving across my roof.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Lumbering behind were the TV crews and the newspaper teams, this one included.
From the brimbankweekly.com.au
The game at times moved with a lumbering pace, more preseason than postseason.
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- Heavy: slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"
- The trade of cutting or preparing or selling timber
- Logging is the process in which certain trees are cut down by a lumberjack or machine, such as the feller buncher, for forest management and timber.
- (lumbered) to walk heavily like an elephant
- (lumbered) moved ponderously, as though weighted down
- Unwieldy and heavy movement.
- French; verb. Moving heavily.
- The wood of trees cut and prepared for use as building material
- Move heavily or clumsily; "The heavy man lumbered across the room"
