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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of lumber.

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Examples

  • But if this thing kind of lumbers on shore and then takes a good day, day and a half to get over to the Gulf of Mexico, we could be talking about 10 to 15 inches of rainfall, maybe even higher than that in some case.

    CNN Transcript Sep 4, 2004 2004

  • This calms her and she lumbers off, eventually finding some foreign bozo to kiss on.

    Get Laid or Die Trying Jeff Allen 2011

  • Her mother lumbers onto the scene, her back arching backwards like a sideways U, barely looks at the girl, hands the cashier a 20.

    Logan Nakyanzi Pollard: When People Are Rude ... What Would Jesus Do? Logan Nakyanzi Pollard 2011

  • “Okay, Joe,” he says, and Crazy lumbers over to the jukebox every time, pushes a button, and goes back to the bar.

    The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011

  • There is Baxter, the injured box turtle, who now lumbers across her wooden floors and is indulged in warm baths.

    15 years later, Petfinder is a keeper 2011

  • As Rand Paul lumbers toward an expected win in Kentucky's often nasty Senate race, he embodies the promise and peril of a phenomenon the GOP establishment must accommodate if the party is to govern and campaign effectively from here on.

    The Rise Of Rand Paul & How Tea Party-Backed Candidates Could Face Rocky Road On Capitol Hill The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • At the bridge, a massive brown bear lumbers down the dirt road.

    Ice cold in Alaska 2012

  • As he lumbers away, she wonders what he looks like covered in whipped cream.

    Whipped Cream Robert Vaughan 2011

  • I look back at the mother bear, andshe sort of nods slowly, then lumbers off to roll around with her cub.

    First Snakes, Now This? « Looking for Roots 2010

  • Well, it's sort of this lonely thing that lumbers the streets at twilight and looks inside windows, maybe yours, tracing the thin outline of your body with eyes that swallow blue destiny.

    What Exactly Is a Valvis? James Valvis 2011

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