How to Use ponderous in a Sentence

ponderous

adjective

• And that’s not even the weirdest thing about the ponderous pachyderm’s voiceover.
  — Jessica Kiang, Variety, 20 Feb. 2024
• Or the slow, ponderous blockheads that got outplayed by the U.S.?
  — Jonathan Clegg, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
• Today, few read Spencer’s dense and ponderous books, and his ideas are rarely taught.
  — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Apr. 2020
• To their right, on a column, is a ponderous, blood-orange face.
  — Noah Shachtman, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2003
• And to help slow me down to the pandemic’s strangely ponderous pace.
  — Avivah Wittenberg-Cox, Forbes, 8 May 2021
• The movie is an odd mix, childlike in tone and mind-set but also ponderous and slow, a deadly mix.
  — Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 July 2021
• The data comes in at a ponderous couple of megabits per second (Mbps).
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 18 July 2022
• Critics found the paintings a bit ponderous and didn’t care for the muted gray color scheme.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2018
• This led to a slow, ponderous kind of warfare where armies would move short distances and then pause to set up new depots.
  — Michael Peck, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2021
• The Mirror and the Light is longer and more ponderous than its predecessors.
  — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 6 Apr. 2020
• Here lies a ponderous abuse of consciousness: one of the most bizarre songs in hip-hop history.
  — Jonathan Rowe, Spin, 22 Aug. 2023
• His 6-foot-6 height, which affords him a better view of where the ball must go, would be a detriment if Herbert were gawky and ponderous.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 12 Sep. 2021
• There was a sudden change from the ponderous infantry of theory to the light and speedy infantry of practice.
  — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 18 Oct. 2021
• The ponderous choice to cleave the overstuffed Scorpion into Sides A and B results in two uneven suites of songs.
  — Andy Hutchins, Time, 29 June 2018
• At the Amtrak station, my headache worsened, and a ponderous fatigue set in.
  — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
• To an astronomer, the longest night of the year occurs once in each hemisphere, as the earth makes its ponderous revolution around the sun.
  — Caity Weaver, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
• But turn a boat as if to land and these monsters would whip into the water with ponderous agility, almost as fast as a gecko.
  — Warren Page, Field & Stream, 13 Nov. 2020
• Two hippos sparred in a shallow pool, their ponderous jaws flashing in the sunlight.
  — John Gurda, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 Jan. 2018
• Predictably, the longer and heavier TourX wagon feels a bit more ponderous than the Regal Sportback.
  — Joseph Capparella, Car and Driver, 19 July 2017
• What should be like flicking a light switch is more like turning a cruise ship, a long and ponderous affair with a lot of hazards involved.
  — Dean Burnett, The Cut, 11 Jan. 2018
• This is realism with all the ponderous weight but little of the visual payoff.
  — Charles McNultytheater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2022
• Butler is more proficient at a ponderous pace than Marquette, and the press allowed the pace to quicken.
  — David Woods, The Indianapolis Star, 27 Feb. 2022
• The front door creaked and the winter cold slunk inside, a ponderous, invisible slug.
  — Hazlitt, 7 June 2023
• Things are so dire on Earth that in her quest to save it, the pace of Bae’s character can feel ponderous — despite her giving it her all as a performer.
  — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 23 Dec. 2021
• The whole thing looks kind of squat and ponderous, whereas the original Enterprise was narrow and sleek.
  — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Ars Technica, 23 Apr. 2023
• The bustle of interest in Congress, in turn, sparked a rare reaction within the opaque and ponderous offices of the V.A.
  — New York Times, 11 Jan. 2022
• My notes are just full of painfully ponderous lines of dialogue.
  — The New Republic Staff, The New Republic, 19 Mar. 2021
• If this all sounds a bit ponderous, blame me, not the ingeniousness of Ozick's novella.
  — Claude Peck, Star Tribune, 16 Apr. 2021
• Why fill chapters with ponderous quotations from writers who are, at the end of the day, talking about something else?
  — Andrea Long Chu, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2021
• Prizing succinct song form and immediate melody, the Raspberries stood in contrast to the shaggy jams and ponderous prog that littered the rock landscape in the early 1970s.
  — Stephen Thomas Erlewine, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024