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ponderously

[ UK /pˈɒndəɹəsli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in an uninterestingly ponderous manner
    the play was staged with ponderously realistic sets
  2. in a heavy ponderous manner
    he moves ponderously

How To Use ponderously In A Sentence

  • Slowly, ponderously this great armada moved across the Channel.
  • Instead of sweating underneath monstrous loads, moving as slowly and ponderously as beasts of burden, we cruised the trail like coyotes, heads up, alert, eyes on the horizon.
  • He picked up his goblet, ponderously swirled the lees and drained them in one gulp. A SHRINE OF MURDERS
  • Reading it, he felt properly shamed for his exaggeration, yet Mr. Song, who’d followed each word ponderously close, was neither alarmed nor offended. Heaven Lake
  • Not many ordinary people were out on the streets, but there was a heavy population of police and army trucks lumbered ponderously around.
  • And at that very instant something did, then moved slowly, ponderously but very heavily upstream.
  • he moves ponderously
  • “Dortmunder,” Tiny said, ponderously thoughtful, “is what you call your focal point.” Drowned Hopes
  • As I said, the exhibition has set out deliberately, and even ponderously, to enlarge our image of Turkishness and to reveal far more about the history of these varied peoples than concentrating on Ottoman art would have achieved.
  • There's a bass hiding in there, peeking out from behind the overdriven rhythm guitars and ponderously formless solos like a shy mammal trying not to be seen.
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