cumbrous in a sentence

1. The castle, a cumbrous structure, stands to the south by the lake.
2. So Macedonia has to live with the cumbrous official name of Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
3. He made improvements to the astrolabe by introducing brass instruments in place of cumbrous wooden ones.
4. With the specie from the later third century, through a cumbrous administration of collection and redistribution.
5. He was a member of General Henry Eyre's " Pack Committee ", which substituted the valise equipment for the cumbrous knapsack.
6. It's difficult to find cumbrous in a sentence.
7. In spite of a cumbrous and affected style, he is a vivid narrator; his character sketches are admirable as summaries of current estimates.
8. At first this cumbrous and complicated instrument of government worked tolerably well under the firm but cautious control of the Chancery President, Count Arvid Horn.
9. But after communing with reality, a chastened president came before a press corps drawn up in vast, cumbrous array to record his acquiescence with political necessity.
10. I halt at the 1980s, when Ono started contriving heavy sculptures about death and making bronze casts of early work, cumbrous retreads of a former gossamer self.
11. It was one of the many curious developments of the mixed taste, at once cumbrous and bizarre, which prevailed in furniture during the Empire period in England.
12. The new train, since joined by direct service between Hong Kong and Shanghai, still stops for a cumbrous customs check near Guangzhou, capital of southern Guangdong province.
13. Many South Koreans find it cumbrous to have to apply 10 days in advance while their government vets them before letting them cross the Cold War's last frontier.
14. He was selected to march at the head of his party, in the cumbrous uniform of a Lifeguard, when the heat was fearful even to the natives themselves.
15. By the early 20th century, mints were using electrical power to drive rolls, the advantage being that each pair of rolls could be driven independently without the intervention of cumbrous shafting.
16. Putin's delaying strategy may be to shift attention to the reduction of offensive missiles, with legions of experts drawn up in what Churchill called " vast cumbrous array ."
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