Example sentences for: ponderous

How can you use “ponderous” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the version of that argument given in What It Means , he asserts that "most government interventions are ineffectual" because "modern society has the inertia of a ponderous freight train."

  • I hit them with surprise quizzes and tests and destroyed them with the ponderous detailed examinations concocted by college professors who assemble high school textbooks.

  • Concealed in the courtyard between them is a Gothic masterpiece, the Sainte-Chapelle, whose fine proportions stand in sharp contrast to the ponderous palace.

  • Terry Press, DreamWorks' marketing chief, on the ads for the ponderous and lackluster Prince of Egypt .

  • He strums listlessly in this ponderous 11 ½ minute version of "." The gibberish about Einstein sniffing drainpipes just reminds you that he was stoned senseless.


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