How to Use encumbrance in a Sentence

encumbrance

noun

• Late August through the end of September is the best time to make major changes that free you from past encumbrances and give you a leg up in with your career.
  — oregonlive, 28 Mar. 2020
• Both a falcon feather and a hammer fall at the same speed, but without the encumbrance of a massive vacuum chamber.
  — Carl Engelking, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2014
• Google has been an advocate for open video To be fair to Google, the search giant has often been an advocate of keeping video standards free of patent encumbrances.
  — Timothy B. Lee, Ars Technica, 10 June 2018
• Paying down debt remains the best hedge against financial encumbrance.
  — Etta Money, Forbes, 12 July 2022
• However, the total quality of our freedom, the ability to move without encumbrance or a hindrance is a far piece off still.
  — Candace McDuffie, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Dec. 2021
• Don't like encumbrance rules or somatic requirements to cast spells?
  — Jason Bennett, Arkansas Online, 14 June 2021
• To critics of Web3, blockchains are at best an unnecessary encumbrance on a startup like Flowcarbon.
  — Christopher Mims, WSJ, 4 June 2022
• Perhaps most important, land banks have the power to clear title to its parcels of liens and other encumbrances that would normally inhibit a resale.
  — John Gallagher, Detroit Free Press, 3 Dec. 2019
• That might sound nice to Trump: a Supreme Court justice who’s sympathetic to the encumbrance of an ongoing investigation.
  — Jen Kirby, Vox, 11 July 2018
• No longer, Kennedy Center officials say, will any of the actors carry their scripts onstage, a practice that was a concession to short rehearsal periods but that over time has proved an encumbrance.
  — Peter Marks, Washington Post, 2 Aug. 2022
• The agreement temporarily helps Sears with its goal to get its products into the hands of consumers without the encumbrance of expensive real estate holdings.
  — Deb Gabor, Fortune, 26 July 2017
• The pleasure of seeing them together onscreen, and the intermittent spark of comedic energy that passes between them, doesn’t outweigh the overwhelming encumbrances of the script and, above all, of the direction.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 11 May 2017
• For a quarter-century, your humble Observer's gaze has peered through ice, rain, steam, sweat and most other encumbrances, but even he was staggered by the downpours challenging this year's party.
  — The Masked Observer, AL.com, 16 Feb. 2018
• Martin Weston, the national junior coach manager for British tennis, isn’t surprised by the shot’s dwindling presence, partly due to the shot’s encumbrance.
  — Richard Mills, SI.com, 16 Feb. 2016
• Musk points out that with shipping-container farms, which lock out all the traditional encumbrances of farming—drought, locusts, 24-hour cycles of day and night—optimization of food is possible.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 24 Oct. 2018
• Funds not obligated by Nov. 20 need to be returned to the county fiscal officer, and those will be redistributed to cities that have met the encumbrance requirements, Rubino said.
  — Ed Wittenberg, cleveland, 7 Oct. 2020
• Freed from the encumbrances of physical infrastructure, fitness can happen anywhere, in any form, anytime.
  — Michael Owen, The Atlantic, 29 May 2020
• Other skeptical reactions include preferences for the convenience of pills over the encumbrance of headsets, or fears that the widespread prescribing of V.R. will mean losing access to painkillers.
  — New York Times, 26 Apr. 2022
• The data from commercial spacecraft may not be as high-quality as those the latest U.S. spy satellites can reap, but they can be easily shared without the encumbrance of security restrictions.
  — Robert Wall, WSJ, 1 May 2022
• While some of his ministers still live in Yemen, Hadi remains holed up in Riyadh, a mostly impotent encumbrance to his backers, his value limited to his (unopposed) election, and the aura of democracy that confers on his government.
  — Nic Robertson, Nada Bashir and Charbel Mallo, CNN, 23 Apr. 2021
• Females are accused of Satanic encumbrance, hunted by law enforcement, tormented by reactionary bros, even lobotomized.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 8 Apr. 2021
• Wong often proceeds by indirection, and the obvious contrast of this first meeting — between Big Labor’s encumbrances and Roosevelt’s dexterity — made, in retrospect, a deliberate point.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New York Times, 23 July 2016
• The querying feeling is basically gone: In its stead is a polished cohesion, the reassurance of something executed crisply and masterfully, almost without encumbrance.
  — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 8 May 2020
• Perhaps the Prius’ greatest accomplishment — making hybrid technology mainstream — is now its greatest encumbrance.
  — Bloomberg, Twin Cities, 3 June 2019
• Proposed appropriations in the General Fund, including encumbrances, will be approximately $25.2 million.
  — Beth Mlady, cleveland, 16 Mar. 2020

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