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Six example sentences with ponderous, each labelled with its topic.
The costume was so ponderous that the actor needed two assistants to lift him upright between takes.
Movies
Ponderous siege towers crept toward the walls at walking pace, dragged by oxen over ground softened by rain.
History
The tuba part is deliberately ponderous, each note landing like a footstep from something far larger than the orchestra.
Music
The largest sauropods moved at a ponderous walk, each step slowed by forty tons of body and the sheer length of the neck.
Science
The old car ferry is ponderous, taking ten minutes to turn in the harbor before it can even line up with the dock.
Travel
The bank's vault door is ponderous, two feet of steel that swings shut only with a motor and a counterweight.
Architecture
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