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adjective

cumbersome

difficult to handle or use especially because of size or weight

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Six example sentences with cumbersome, each labelled with its topic.

  • The old plate camera is cumbersome enough that a second person carries the tripod and a third carries the case.

    Photography

  • The prototype headset is cumbersome, and testers took it off after twenty minutes because their necks ached.

    Technology

  • The cast iron pot is cumbersome, and lifting it full of stew from a low oven takes two hands.

    Cooking

  • The suitcase was so cumbersome on the cobbled streets that we swapped it for two backpacks the next morning.

    Travel

  • A double bass is cumbersome on the bus, so the player books a second seat for it every tour.

    Music

  • Early cannon were so cumbersome that an army needed teams of oxen and a week of dry roads to move a single gun.

    History

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