ponderous
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Ponderous, no speed, no penetration- I miss the first-20-min-onslaught approach of '13/'14.
From The Guardian • Aug. 9, 2015
Ponderous, no speed, no penetration- I miss the first-20-min-onslaught approach of '13/'14.
From The Guardian • Aug. 9, 2015
Ponderous RFC Chairman Harley Hise sputtered that the loan was made to the very respectable owners of the hotel, who had in turn leased out the gambling rights, in a state where gambling is legal.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ponderous, squat, ungainly were the trunks of the 1890's, trunks that grandfather and grandmother packed, trunks that still repose in many a U. S. attic.
From Time Magazine Archive
Ponderous logging trucks rumbled through town on Highway 41 night and day on their way to the mills in Aberdeen.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
Vocabulary lists containing ponderous
Their Eyes Were Watching God
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Mythology
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"The Odyssey," Vocabulary from Part 1 of the epic poem
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