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Lumbering meaning
The act of one who lumbers; heavy, clumsy movement. | The business of felling trees for lumber.
Synonyms of Lumbering
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By 2001, Microsoft had become the industry’s lumbering giant, and the Justice Department filed antitrust charges.
Chief among them is that the legend of Bigfoot is a creature that is an upright, swift and agile walker, not a lumbering quadruped beast.
Cohozuna is a lumbering target, one that can simply lay flat on its belly to defeat someone.
I love exploring these subtleties, but at certain restaurants, not many servers are prepared to take seriously the lumbering white guy who walks through the doors and insists upon his dish being maximally spiced.
It’s not as if adding Max Strus or Duncan Robinson to the starting lineup in place of a lumbering big man necessarily makes the Heat any fleeter.
They were lumbering giants with 84-foot wing spans.
A video taken at the scene shows the alligator lumbering across the road while the trapper walks behind it in pursuit.
Centre-backs are, by and large, not the lumbering heading machines of old.
It moves at the same sort of drifting pace as an ocean liner, lumbering along, taking its time.
Juveniles such as Jane and Petey were fast, fleet footed, and had knife-like teeth for cutting, whereas adults were lumbering bone crushers.
That’s leavened with a video of Davis, a retired Air Force colonel and lawyer, singing John Prine’s “Angel From Montgomery” to commemorate the singer’s recent death and video of bears lumbering around outside Davis’s home.
The cat and rat agreed a pact to go together, taking a lift on the back of a lumbering ox.
They've been spotted lumbering around Vermont cities, college campuses and in suburban and rural backyards.
But these are designed to bet on startups, not to perfect processes at lumbering giants.
His abilities seemed to fluctuate with whatever the story needed, and really, he was just a lumbering plot device.
It’s got everyone’s favorite farting warthog, graceful giraffes, lumbering elephants and a whole cast of realistic-looking animal characters.
Lumbering through the third quarter, both teams punted twice.
That night we drove north on the BR-163 to the town of Miritituba, and then left the highway again, this time to board a lumbering ferry that took us across the Tapajós River.
The merger, combined with the implosion of the PDP and the absorption of those who found themselves out of the then ruling party and other factors, gave the APC the muscle to truly challenge the lumbering behemoth in the 2015 election.
The movie crew was like this giant, lumbering machine.