lumbering in English

adjective
1
moving in a slow, heavy, awkward way.
Bob was a big, lumbering, gentle sort
verb
2
cut and prepare forest timber for transport and sale.
the traditional resource industries of the nation, chiefly fishing and lumbering

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1. Bunker, a businessperson in the lumbering industry

2. The tank was lumbering up a slope.

3. There are forests here, and lumbering is very important.

4. There are forests here, and lumbering is important.

5. Lumbering is very important in some underdeveloped countries.

6. Synonyms: awkward, blundering, bungling, lumbering More Synonyms of Clumsy

7. Continuous lumbering has changed this place into bare mountains.

8. Her lumbering footsteps kicked up small flurries of snow.

9. See that pile of lumbering by the barn?

10. There are forests here, and lumbering is very.

11. He looked straight ahead and overtook a lumbering lorry.

12. Once a lumbering center, it now has varied industries.

13. States are lumbering dinosaurs that take years to adapt to change.

14. The exploitative activities of this region include farming, lumbering and mining.

15. 77 synonyms for Clumsy: awkward, blundering, bungling, lumbering, inept, bumbling, ponderous, ungainly

16. A large, lumbering man, who fumbled through the ankle-deep water without grace.

17. Synonyms for Bumbling include incompetent, awkward, blundering, bungling, clumsy, inefficient, inept, lumbering, maladroit and amateurish

18. Short - sighted action of lumbering in a destructive manner destroys vegetation, and causes soil erosion.

19. It approaches Rome, lumbering up the Appian Way, doubling its size every few minutes.

20. Lumbering was an attack operation, as thoroughly strategic and disciplined as a military siege.

21. After she had oiled the hinges, she paused a moment before lumbering up the stairs.

22. The lumbering, Luddite world of automobiles has a special attraction for Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

23. In the distance, we could see a herd of elephants lumbering across the plain.

24. Synonyms for Clopping include clomping, clumping, galumphing, stamping, trudging, clunking, lumbering, plodding, stomping and tramping

25. Synonyms for Burdening include loading, encumbering, overwhelming, saddling, straining, trammelling, trammeling, lumbering, weighting and freighting

26. Synonyms for Clodhopping include uncoordinated, awkward, clumsy, ungainly, graceless, lumbering, bumbling, gawky, bungling and heavy-footed

27. Then one day Mark was lumbering up Parliament Hill, and Babur came running up from behind.

28. The lumbering Swordfish, caught from above, were shot down to the last plane in one swift attack.

29. A city of southern British Columbia, Canada, on Okanagan Lake east - northeast of Vancouver andand lumbering area.

30. We chat about the lumbering, and the latest antics at Mount Blue, in my neck of the woods.

31. Generosity Abounds quest Use #2 command to pull Scourge Bomb and take it to the Lumbering Atrocity

32. Although physically perfect for the role, his clumsy facial expressions make him a lumbering presence in Lilliput.

33. 9 The lumbering Swordfish, caught from above, were shot down to the last plane in one swift attack.

34. So lean in, apprentice Brontosauri! Your greatest prehistoric advocate stands poised to ease you patiently through life, lumbering gracefully beside …

35. The decision making process can be likened to one of those great lumbering steam locomotives seen in Western films.

36. Bronze spandrels between the third- and fourth-floor windows depicted scenes from American industry: Shipping, Farming, Manufacturing, Mining and Lumbering.

37. The Bugbear is the largest of the goblinoid races, a lumbering brute that stands at least a head taller than most humans

38. It’s bloody entertaining, to see this lumbering wreckage, this Blovious orange farce of a man, pretending to be president, and his clown men fanning him

39. Our favorite lumbering ape-man, Bigfoot, has been spotted again—this time, hanging out near bison in Yellowstone National Park, according to a …

40. The Bugbear is the largest of the goblinoid races, a lumbering brute that stands at least a head taller than most humans

41. Areas of isolated virgin forest, recently considered inviolable by human disturbance, now are the locales of extensive lumbering, mineral prospecting and mammoth copper mining projects that pollute the adjacent rivers.

42. ‘The hype has worked, but the reality is a lumbering, unconvincing tale that is filled with one Cliffhanging moment after another but never builds into a satisfying thriller.’

43. The Biplanes of the 1914-1918 conflict became ever-more specialized as the war progressed, from the nimble fighters to the dependable recon planes to the lumbering bombers soon flying over enemy cities dropping explosives on civilians

44. Leatherback, the bouncer-like Kaiju which spews electro-magnetic charges, is a favorite of del Toro, who conceived it as a "brawler with this sort of beer belly"; the lumbering movements of gorillas were used as a reference.

45. Those who have been lumbering may easily be known among the others, by sporting a flashy stock or waistcoat, and by being arrayed in "Boughten" clothes, procured in town at a most expensive rate in lieu of their lumber.Sketches and Tales Illustrative of Life in the Backwoods of New Brunswick, North America