This should be effectively prevented by the formation of sufficient gutters, with such outlets as will prevent ponding at the sides of the road.
There is no evidence that the Green river was well enclosed immediately north of the Uinta mountains at the time of their first elevation; hence the likelihood of its temporary ponding or enclosure is increased.
Great accumulations of glacial débris took place around the borders of the glacier lobes, and, after retreat of the ice, the glacial deposits acted as dams ponding the waters far back into the mountain valleys.
And great barricades of ice still in the rivers blocking them up, and ponding them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ponding" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.