PONDEROUS in a Sentence

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120 example sentences for PONDEROUS, such as:

1. I am pondering how to respond.
2. He is both ponderous and profound.
3. She pondered for a moment before replying.
4. I ponder for some minutes before giving the answer.
5. I pondered the incident, asking myself again and again how it could have happened.

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 Meanings and Examples of PONDEROUS
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ponderous
 a.  slow and laborious because of weight; labored and dull
Classic Sentence: (109 in 8 pages)
1  The upstairs hall seemed to shake as Mammy's ponderous weight came toward the door.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
2  Clouds hewn of ponderous timber weighing down on the earth; an irresolute dropping of snow specks upon the trampled wastes.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
3  He turned and plodded back, a ponderous furry figure, holding the horses' bridles, Carol's hand dragging at his sleeve.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
4  His broad-brim was placed beside him; his legs were stiffly crossed; his drab vesture was buttoned up to his chin; and spectacles on nose, he seemed absorbed in reading from a ponderous volume.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. The Ship.
5  But it is a ponderous task; no ordinary letter-sorter in the Post-Office is equal to it.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32. Cetology.
6  He is both ponderous and profound.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 85. The Fountain.
7  The foundation does not penetrate the deck, but the masonry is firmly secured to the surface by ponderous knees of iron bracing it on all sides, and screwing it down to the timbers.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
8  The one grand stage where he enacted all his various parts so manifold, was his vice-bench; a long rude ponderous table furnished with several vices, of different sizes, and both of iron and of wood.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 107. The Carpenter.
9  The sewing-machine made a resounding clatter in the room; it was of a ponderous, by-gone make.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VIII
10  Edna was glad to be rid of her father when he finally took himself off with his wedding garments and his bridal gifts, with his padded shoulders, his Bible reading, his "toddies" and ponderous oaths.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXIV
11  There was sudden change from the ponderous infantry of theory to the light and speedy infantry of practice.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
12  So saying, she left the apartment; and Front-de-Boeuf could hear the crash of the ponderous key, as she locked and double-locked the door behind her, thus cutting off the most slender chance of escape.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXX
13  The ponderous castle-bell had tolled the point of noon, when Rebecca heard a trampling of feet upon the private stair which led to her place of confinement.
Ivanhoe By Walter Scott
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  But it came with a strange slow thrust of peace, the dark thrust of peace and a ponderous, primordial tenderness, such as made the world in the beginning.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 12
15  Then Sherlock Holmes pulled down from the shelf one of the ponderous commonplace books in which he placed his cuttings.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
Example Sentence:
1  His humor lacked the light touch; his jokes were always ponderous.
2  I ponder for some minutes before giving the answer.
3  Though the child is not in immediate danger the work seems to ponder the possibilities of the outcome.
4  Corporate profits were up markedly, and that's leading hungry brokers to ponder yet more rises on the stock markets.
5  The dream is not a dream, the difference between the two usually have a very worth pondering the distance.
6  I am pondering how to respond.
7  In pondering the great mystery, I thought of Helen Burns, recalled her dying words -- her faith -- her doctrine of the equality of disembodied souls.
8  I pondered the incident, asking myself again and again how it could have happened.
9  She pondered for a moment before replying.
10  You have pondered long enough; it is time to decide.
11  The last of the Doolittle Raiders, all in their 90's, offered a final toast Saturday to their fallen comrades, as they pondered their place in history after a day of fanfare about their 1942 attack on Japan.