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Sentence example with the word 'ponderous'
ponderous
all thumbs, bulky, crosswise, elephantine, graceless, hulking, large, massive, prolix, tedious, windy
Definition
adj.
slow and laborious because of weight
Last update: June 20, 2015
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Your bag is
ponderous
.
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His
ponderous
attempts at wit did not make anyone laugh.
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The combination of jagged guitar riff, chanted chorus and mildly
ponderous
organ made it top five on both sides of the Atlantic.
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The
ponderous
pace of legal action imposes huge extra strain on couples and adds invisible costs in diverted energy and lost working time.
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"More
ponderous
than any of the metal we shall make by it, I fear," answered Oldbuck.
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All the furniture in the house was Elizabethan, plain,
ponderous
, the conscientious work of Oxfordshire mechanics.
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As few, in the present age, are acquainted with the
ponderous
folios to which the age of Louis XIV.
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Hastily, yet with a reluctant quiver of his muscles, Milnwood lugged out two
ponderous
keys, and delivered them to the governante.
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A
ponderous
Saxon.
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He whispered then near Stephen's ear: LENEHAN'S LIMERICK There's a
ponderous
pundit MacHugh Who wears goggles of ebony hue.'
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(He swoops uncertainly through the air, wheeling, uttering cries of heartening, on strong
ponderous
buzzard wings) Ho, boy.
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