Sentence example with the word 'encumber'

encumber

add, burden, decorate, entwine, hobble, lime, overtax, rest hard upon, subjoin, toil

Definition v. hold back

Last update: September 3, 2015

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The greatest variety of episodical matter is thus introduced; but the propriety of the occasion and the mode of introduction are such that no complaint can be made; the episodes never entangle, encumber or even unpleasantly interrupt the main narrative.   [verb]

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Either husband or wife may hold, manage and dispose of his or her separate property independent of the other, but property which they hold in common is under the management and control of the husband except that he cannot devise by will more than one-half of the community real or personal property, or convey, mortgage or encumber any of the community real estate unless his wife joins him.   [verb]

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But the impetuous young men were rewarded by finding that, encumbered with Cora, the Hurons were losing ground in the race.   [verb]

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TAIGLIT, harassed, encumbered, loitered.   [verb]

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The landscape, as they advanced, became waster and more wild, until nothing but heath and rock encumbered the side of the valley.   [verb]

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On the whole, I thought I should have great reason to congratulate myself if it should be my fate to possess twenty thousand pounds encumbered with such a wife.   [verb]

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Giles (who had the shortest wind of the party, as was encumbered with a pitchfork) most handsomely insisted on stopping, to make an apology for his hastiness of speech.   [verb]

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The ground must be cleared of the prejudices which encumber it.   [verb]

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encompass - encumber - cumbersome