A living human being is always a threat to a lumbering system.

The long, lumbering train was too close to stop in time.

She felt light, no longer the lumbering elephant she'd become.

With a lumbering stride, he set off into the morning.

The huge, lumbering form of the demon made its way toward him.

But now he would have to let the play unfold to its lumbering and far less certain end.

A lumbering truck forced her to step off the road.

The same might be said for the entire work, despite its lumbering scenario.

"I thought they were one of those big lumbering giants," he said.

He took a lumbering step over some debris and then stopped.

In the life of this lumbering institution, though, the speech had little effect.

It was a drum machine making its lumbering way down the street.

What was the lumbering Thomas doing gambling too far from second base?

Take me then, she said, and felt his lumbering movements in the cave.

Because of their lumbering performance and relatively small size, they are particularly vulnerable.

And all were making good speed, despite their lumbering gait.

Looking like the very devil, and full of big lumbering goodness.

Events at the festival recall the lumbering history of the park.

A large and lumbering man, he quickly got drenched, people who were watching said.

Then he made a lumbering charge for the boats before they could turn and follow.

The lumbering motor home was almost to the far end of the connecting road.

With such huge and lumbering civility the country hands a chair to the city.

The first cab had been a lumbering old taxi that looked its part.

They operate large, lumbering vehicles that could take out several cars at once.

They stopped their lumbering charge and, very slowly, tried to dodge out of the way.

The lumber company, as was a common practice of the time, clear cut the land.

This is when he began work in the lumber field.

For example, he'd show them how to make a lumber saw.

I'm going to get some lumber and board up that side of my house.

There was also a lumber industry in the area during these same years.

For a long time I heard him moving among the lumber, and every moment seemed to me an age.

The site of a former lumber company is now a museum.

She never married, and worked for her father in the family lumber business.

He also served as director in a number of lumber companies.

The town became a part of the lumber trade with the English government.

I did and to my surprise some were still good lumber.

"A house of good lumber will last a hundred years also."

But one went to the lumber camp three weeks ago.

This saw turned trees into lumber from 1930 until 1980.

In 1914 the community, with 250 residents, had a lumber company.

He has not been around the lumber camp for weeks.

We were to use local lumber for most of our construction, you see.

That same year also saw the end of the lumber industry in the region.

The lumber industry defined the early growth of the city.

These are the source of the island's large lumber industry.

Then men were sent to cut lumber for the ship building industry.

Prior to 1880, this community was known for its lumber industry.

The lumber industry had a negative effect on the environment.

There are problems with using the wood as lumber, however.

"Go into the lumber business myself," was the way she put it.

Now, there's no telling who will lumber in the door.

He lumbered to his feet and turned back toward the house.

He lumbered over and I led him into the other room.

The girl was there, lumbering about exactly as she had been before.

The boys turned to see a big man lumbering toward them.

They had been lumbered with her now for nearly ten years.

The figure lumbered again to the far side of the river.

He did not walk but lumbered from the computer to the front door, then back again.

The woman came to her feet at once and lumbered off to the kitchen.

With that, he lumbered out of the door and down the hall.

She did not see the moving van lumbering down on her.

John had lumbered to his feet when I entered the room.

"They will lumber on and not be allowed to go bankrupt."

Somehow it got its feet back and lumbered toward her.

Now she was back, and we lumbered into the traffic.

He lumbered to the front of the room and faced the students.

The motor home lumbering to a stop on his right.

She heard him lumber into the outer office, and went back to her desk.

Then he lumbered down the steps and across the street to the bank.

Turning around, he lumbered toward the bar with his friends.

Buses lumber along, carrying workers home at the end of a long day.

One lumbered over to answer a phone, then shouted a number.

One or two turned and lumbered away as she rode toward them.

Johnny tried to lumber into a run, but the ground kept shifting under his feet.

He was lumbering forward at the time, and plunged on into the room.