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Significados de lumbering em inglês

Slow and laborious because of weight.

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Examples for "heavy"
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China's new climate-related insurance services, however, often depend on heavy government subsidies.
Reuters
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Reporting remains subject to heavy legal constraint, thus key information remains obscured.
The Irish Times
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Twenty years of freedom have seen heavy investment is Soweto's public transport.
The South African
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And Western Australia has particularly heavy penalties under its Public Health Act.
News.com.au
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There is also new evidence that heavy precipitation has increased in Europe.
The Guardian
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Urban voters in particular have criticized Banda's response as ponderous and ineffectual.
Reuters
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Princes of the blood royal had sat in the ponderous carved oak-chairs.
Henry Dunbar: A Novel
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Gerrard's departure leaves Liverpool short of one slightly ponderous 34-year-old central midfielder.
The Guardian
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Wilshere is rarely fit, leaving West Ham's ponderous midfield short of options.
The Guardian
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A man of unusual height and ponderous proportions appeared in the opening.
A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
Uso de lumbering em inglês
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The familiar lumbering of wheels began, and the clanking of the wagon-chain.
The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel
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Switch still in one hand, he set off at a lumbering run.
Forge of Darkness
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He went, in his lumbering way, down the hill into the city.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 48, October, 1861 / A Magaz...
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Few such lumbering, unsubtle directors have accumulated quite such a weighty reputation.
The Irish Times
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It was lumbering slowly along like a great ship through an iceflow.
New york: the novel
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Is it destined to be a lumbering single-digit growth mobile phone group?
The Irish Times
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The driver cracked his whip, and the lumbering old coach drove on.
Herbert Carter's Legacy; Or, the Inventor's Son
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The lumbering vehicle started on its way, and the journey began afresh.
Original Short Stories — Volume 01
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The swineherd went lumbering back into the hut, and called his wife.
Little Saint Elizabeth and Other Stories
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The monolithic, lumbering SAPS is hopelessly inadequate to the task of responding.
The South African
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They swung quickly out of line and went lumbering down the street.
The Circus Boys in Dixie Land; Or, Winning the Plaudits of the S...
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I heard Roven behind, lumbering and cursing and bouncing off the walls.
Empire in black and gold
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These men were like lumbering oxen in a field of porcelain-delicate politics.
The Winds of Dune
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The mines, water-powers and lumbering will only create small towns and villages.
Animal Sanctuaries in Labrador / An Address Presented by Lt.-Col...
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In the heavy, lumbering coach we left next morning, Saturday, for Mitla.
In Indian Mexico (1908)
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We left the lumbering camp known as Sugar Pine to our right.
Out of Doors—California and Oregon
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