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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lumber.

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Examples

  • DC Comics refused to let him (temporarily) kill Aquaman to turn him into a water elemental, and the title lumbered along for another couple years under various writers.

    NPR Topics: News 2010

  • As the woman lumbered from the table to the truck and back - 'working her a - off,' says our spy - she was overheard mumbling, 'I have to do a good job for Crest.'

    05/20/2004 2004

  • She fell suddenly silent again, and sat gloomy and staring at the endless procession of gum trees as the train lumbered on through that fantastic forest, which made her think of all kinds of ridiculous things.

    Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

  • He yawned ponderously, and with never a civil word lumbered off to his sleeping-place.

    Kim 2003

  • He yawned ponderously, and with never a civil word lumbered off to his sleeping-place.

    Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • And as that little guy became not so little anymore -- as the minority population in the city became the majority -- the Sun-Times labored (though some would say "lumbered") to keep up.

    Daniel Sinker: Slipping Backwards: The Loss of Two Journalists of Color at the Chicago Sun-Times Reflects the Growing Whitewashing of the News 2008

  • This is one that kind of lumbered in a very zigzag fashion.

    CNN Transcript Aug 21, 2008 2008

  • Peter Oppenheimer just raced into the Jobs Pod okay, he kind of lumbered, actually after reading this item from my blog earlier today about the guy with 100 old Macs in his house.

    The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs : Our new Mac recycling program 2007

  • Peter Oppenheimer just raced into the Jobs Pod okay, he kind of lumbered, actually after reading this item from my blog earlier today about the guy with 100 old Macs in his house.

    Our new Mac recycling program 2007

  • Andrew Marr If Orwell was writing now, would he, I mean, how much would he be concentrating on the way America has kind of lumbered around the world.

    Christopher Hitchens on George Orwell 2002

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