CUMBER in a Sentence
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Example sentences for CUMBER, such as:
1. What's more, they will reproach you for cumbering the place, for being so long over dying.
2. The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul.
2. The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul.
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Meanings and Examples of CUMBER
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Classic Sentence:
1 Her paradise was not a tranquil one, for the little woman fussed, was over-anxious to please, and bustled about like a true Martha, cumbered with many cares.
2 It was almost completely dark in the narrow, cramped, low-pitched room, cumbered up with an enormous wardrobe and piles of cardboard boxes and all sorts of frippery and litter.
3 The sufferings of this mortal state will leave me with the heavy flesh that now cumbers my soul.
4 What's more, they will reproach you for cumbering the place, for being so long over dying.
Example Sentence:
1 One day, however, as she put away her account-book and unfolded her embroidery, she suddenly took her up thus -- "Georgiana, a more vain and absurd animal than you was certainly never allowed to cumber the earth."