How to Use encumber in a Sentence

encumber

verb

• Lack of funding has encumbered the project.
• These rules will only encumber the people we're trying to help.
• The local road signs were missing, to encumber the invaders.
  — Susan Mathison, Hartford Courant, 23 Feb. 2024
• This is remarkable given that they’re so heavily encumbered by government regulations.
  — Veronique De Rugy, Orange County Register, 23 May 2024
• As a result, Hamlin's win in the Irish Hills 250 was ruled encumbered.
  — Detroit Free Press, 21 June 2017
• There’re points in the game where the addition of details — both old and new — becomes encumbering.
  — Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 22 Feb. 2024
• The production is encumbered by long blackouts for scene changes, during which the same Luther Vandross and Sade songs play over and over and over and over.
  — Sam Hurwitt, The Mercury News, 16 Jan. 2017
• Laptops and tablets may also be encumbered with the 25% import levy.
  — Mark Gurman, Fortune, 28 June 2019
• Dallas is encumbered in its ability to deal a first-round pick.
  — Chris Fedor, cleveland, 24 Jan. 2020
• But in fact there could have been nothing worse than to encumber himself with the obligation to form and control children.
  — Rachel Cusk, Harper's Magazine, 10 Sep. 2023
• But efforts to keep them on may, in effect, encumber reform.
  — Maura Ewing, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
• The hope is that the testbed will remove much of the red tape that might otherwise encumber partnering with the government.
  — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• Many runners don’t like being encumbered with a handheld or hydration packs, but if the heat is extreme, don’t leave it to chance.
  — Brion O’Connor, BostonGlobe.com, 25 July 2019
• Nationwide and around the globe, children and adults alike face days encumbered by hunger — 42 million total in the U.S., according to FeedingAmerica.org.
  — Samantha Brodsky, Good Housekeeping, 12 July 2017
• An artist from a rich family who perceived himself as a failure, Cézanne was pressed forward by a sense of encumbering shame and a need to show them.
  — Adam Gopnik, Town & Country, 5 Mar. 2023
• Hensley ran off at record-breaking speed for a man encumbered with a large bellows instrument.
  — Andrew Hamlin, sandiegouniontribune.com, 8 Mar. 2018
• So a clean debt-limit bill could be quietly encumbered.
  — Ed Kilgore, Daily Intelligencer, 3 Aug. 2017
• Mathurin hasn't hit a rookie wall in part because he's encumbered by almost zero self-doubt.
  — Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 22 Mar. 2023
• There’s even a perk that lets players fast-travel if they’re encumbered, a persistent problem in the Fallout franchise.
  — Matthew Gault, Time, 22 Oct. 2019
• When my parents finally left, they were encumbered with office files and binders my father refused to throw away.
  — Deepak Unnikrishnan, Foreign Affairs, 7 Feb. 2020
• Sounds of shouting and struggle, then down the back staircase went the whooping gang encumbered by flailing, crew-cutted, unclean Bill Elder.
  — Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Town & Country, 22 Aug. 2013
• One man told us to embrace a kind of youthful workaholism, before we became encumbered by kids and families.
  — Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2024
• Those schemes were invented in the 1970s and quickly became encumbered by patents, limiting their use during the early years.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 June 2018
• Slowly, desparatly slowly, the remains of passage debris that encumbered the lower part of the doorway was removed.
  — Kim Zetter, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2010
• Sometimes no means no, and that should be the case every time there is a request to develop land encumbered by a conservation easement.
  — The Denver Post Editorial Board, The Denver Post, 13 Nov. 2019
• There is no formal art training to encumber your pure expression.
  — Borys Kit, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 July 2023
• Share a tin of pimento cheese (sadly encumbered by strips of pickled onions — just let us at the cheese, please!) with saltines ($8) or fluffy biscuits and Benton ham, with a swipe of sorghum butter on the side, worth eating on its own ($16).
  — Kara Baskin, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2019
• Horowitz: Six years into a show you're encumbered, for better or for worse, by everything that has come before — from wardrobe choices to story choices.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 Oct. 2017
• Still, in scene after scene, their exchanges are encumbered by complex music roiling in the orchestra.
  — New York Times, 1 June 2018
• At this point, Alex and Kim, newly encumbered with an unwieldy but magnificent collection, were unsure of what to do.
  — Nathaniel Adams, Chron, 19 Feb. 2023

Last Updated: 3 Dec 2024