cumbersome

In a sentence

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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