To this jealously guarded and ponderously sorted gallery he day by day added some new face, some new scene, some new name.
Then he clambered over the rail itself, and with a double twist of the rope about his great leg let himself ponderously down over the side.
The gunlayer watched a dial, and the gun's crew stood tense and expectant, while the huge breeches of the weapons moved ponderously up and down, with a wheezing and a groaning of the water through the hydraulic machinery.
Then he heaved himself ponderously out of his great chair.
Then he ponderously repeated--"To Her Majesty the Queen Regent--Have you got that?
Rising ponderously from her chair, she moved on heavy tiptoes out into the kitchen, the thin boards creaking as she walked.
And having nodded his headponderously several times, he turned and went ponderously along the passage and down the stair.
Twenty thousand pounds is a very handsome sum," remarked Mr. Grainger ponderously and as though more with the intention of saying something rather than remain silent just then.
And when they had gone, out over the wide water the gulls or the fish hawks would sail, or a great blue heron, with wings like the fans of an old Dutch mill, would beat ponderously across.
And, thrusting the book into my stomach, he sank his head upon his breast, and fell to swaying it ponderously up and down.
There was a little extra yelling and whip-cracking, and the great vehicle rolled ponderously through, and began toilsomely to mount the steep ascent on the other side.
The whips cracked, the drivers yelled, and the waggons rolled ponderously forward.
Then, turning on his lights, he moved ponderously and jauntily to his wife's door and knocked discreetly.
And Agatha, turning, encountered only the stupid gaze of Plank, moving ponderously past on Sylvia's heels.
And he went ponderously down-stairs to the square hall, where Gumble held his hat and gloves ready for him.
Then abruptly Major Ralston, who had been standing in the background with a tall drink in his hand, slouched forward and let himself down ponderously on the edge of the verandah by Tommy's side.
Even his brother seemed lost in meditation with his eyes fixed immovably upon a lamp that hung from the ceiling and swayed ponderously in the draught.
Mr. Blackrock slowly and ponderously read the proposed plan of incorporation.
Yes," answered Mr. Stevens ponderously from his place on the porch.
The Germans launched a heavy offensive, for the retaking, wave after wave, line after line, movingponderously forward.
Then the tanks, faintly outlined forms in the grey light, moved ponderously forward.
A brace of truculent beasts of frighteningly saurian mien shuffled ponderously along in the loose harness.
Even Eemakh, plodding ponderously up, lowered himself to a bench with a sigh.
The physical explanations which I have seen are easy, but miserably insufficient: the spiritual hypothesis is sufficient but ponderously difficult.
Emily, with an intimidating bump and a wooden clatter of sculls, fell ponderously into the boat and lay sprawled across the gunwale.
John had to be careful then, and creep upstream along the bank while their long lines of barges swung ponderously round the corner.
Occasionally he ponderously leaned forward to listen to some remark, with his head cocked in keen scrutiny--actions which did not escape the Captain's notice.
With lowered forehead, without looking up, swiftly and ponderously he crossed the room to one of the French windows.
Roaring in his fierce agony Ravana fell ponderously upon the plain and immediately expired.
When they scented the tame elephants lying crouched in slumber, they trumpeted aloud, and of a sudden charged ponderously and fell upon them like to mountain peaks tumbling into the valleys beneath.
I, my dear Eliza, have nothing with which to reproach myself," he used to tell his wife ponderously in moments of conjugal unbending.
So it's all right" The visitor went ponderously up-stairs.
Then the details wereponderously thought out by the miller, and ponderously acted upon, with the dry approval of Medallion, who dared not tell the Cure of his complicity, though he was without compunction.
Honest George hoisted himself ponderously out of his arm-chair and lumbered heavily across the room, shouldering the crowd aside with a high-handed contempt for the pack of them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ponderously" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clumsily; heavily; heavy; slowly; superficially
