Sentence Examples

1. A ponderous, rolling wave of strength washed into him and he drew on it desperately to create new fibres to weave closed the puncture in his lung.
2. After a pause of a moment, he proceeded, in his stately way, to the door, drew back the ponderous bolts, unhooked the heavy chains, and began to draw it open.
3. Tarkyn watched in horror as, with ponderous grace, the makeshift stand sagged to one side.
4. The horse he had borrowed from Jamie was an aged and ponderous animal and the journey was a painfully slow one.
5. Inside, a man with a ponderous mustache and an equally ponderous belly raced by.
6. Sergeant Pedro Gonzales hurled his half-filled wine mug to the hard dirt floor, straightened suddenly on the bench, and crashed a ponderous fist down upon the table, causing wine mugs and cards and coins to scatter in all directions.
7. In one of these cells were several globes or balls of a most ponderous metal, about the bigness of our heads, and required a strong hand to lift them the other cell contained a heap of certain black grains, but of no great bulk or weight, for we could hold above fifty of them in the palms of our hands.
8. In the space of a single, ponderous heartbeat, a dozen thoughts flashed through her mind.
9. Not far away, a ponderous series of crashes signalled the death of some large tree as it fell victim to the howling gale.