Sample Sentences forponderous (editor-reviewed)
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The elephant moved with ponderous steps across the dusty savanna.ponderous = slow and heavy
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The old truck made ponderous progress up the steep mountain road.
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The findings were presented in a ponderous three-volume report.ponderous = large and not elegant (unwieldy or boring)
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We've been working through the ponderous regulatory approval process for the last two years.ponderous = slow and unwieldy
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The sun was a ponderous circle without edges, a roar without a sound, (source)ponderous = very large
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The steps in the gravel sounded heavy and ponderous, like those of a large man. (source)ponderous = slow and unwieldy -- especially because of size
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He shook his ponderous head. (source)ponderous = large
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BRADY re-enters and crosses ponderously to the RADIO MAN. (source)ponderously = slowly in an unwieldy manner
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He examined it for a long time, tracing the sentences with his pencil, a ponderous reader whose thick black eyebrows kept bunching in the manner of a child having difficulty with a complex puzzle. (source)ponderous = slow and with difficulty
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He moved ponderously across the room and settled into the armchair, filling it completely.† (source)
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Then he took off with ponderous flight and circled and lowered, circled and lowered until the others danced in joy and hunger at his approach. (source)ponderous = slow
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The old man blew his nose ponderously and wiped his eyes.† (source)
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But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery—go! (source)ponderous = very large
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But she stayed anyway, next to Saeed on the naked earth that had been stripped of plants by hundreds of thousands of footsteps and rutted by the tires of ponderously heavy vehicles, feeling for the first time unwelcome.† (source)
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As if in the superhuman energy of his utterance there had been found the potency of a spell—the huge antique panels to which the speaker pointed, threw slowly back, upon the instant, their ponderous and ebony jaws. (source)ponderous = large
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It exited the shark as had the lobster, in flakes that fell ponderously to the aquarium floor, joining, and indistinguishable from, those that had come before.† (source)
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