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.   [adjective]

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His ponderous attempts at wit did not make anyone laugh.   [adjective]

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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.   [adjective]

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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.   [adjective]

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"More ponderous than any of the metal we shall make by it, I fear," answered Oldbuck.   [adjective]

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All the furniture in the house was Elizabethan, plain, ponderous, the conscientious work of Oxfordshire mechanics.   [adjective]

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As few, in the present age, are acquainted with the ponderous folios to which the age of Louis XIV.   [adjective]

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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.   [adjective]

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A ponderous Saxon.   [adjective]

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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.'   [adjective]

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(He swoops uncertainly through the air, wheeling, uttering cries of heartening, on strong ponderous buzzard wings) Ho, boy.   [adjective]

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