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Meanings of ponderous in English
Usage of ponderous in English
1
Urban voters in particular have criticized Banda's response as ponderous and ineffectual.
2
Princes of the blood royal had sat in the ponderous carved oak-chairs.
3
Gerrard's departure leaves Liverpool short of one slightly ponderous 34-year-old central midfielder.
4
Wilshere is rarely fit, leaving West Ham's ponderous midfield short of options.
5
A man of unusual height and ponderous proportions appeared in the opening.
6
Nathaniel Adams Sawyer sat in his library reading a ponderous legal document.
7
Araminta heard the ponderous motions of larger systems through her rib cage.
8
Through the breach fell the ponderous weight of a river left unsupported.
9
Round went the men, and steadily and safely rose the ponderous chain.
10
But the muff lay in her lap, ponderous with its rich enclosures.
11
He seemed to feel an actual ponderous weight on his young shoulders.
12
It is like the arched and ponderous roof of the poet's mausoleum:
13
Then it may get quietly intense and ponderous toward the 2nd week.
14
She extended the note with a second dip of her ponderous form:
15
His short innings was ponderous by the hectic standards of these matches.
16
In favour of the man before her, they swung with ponderous obviousness.
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Ponderous through the time
Ponderous across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common