Ponderous in a sentence as an adjective

" It feels terribly ponderous to do the latter.

And speed is directly bound by the number of function calls being performed, not by ponderous data structures.

At other times, it feels impossible to breathe without violating some ponderous rule.

I'm sure it loses something not being there in person but Mr. Alexander's delivery sure seems ponderous.

There is certainly a place for long, ponderous reference book-like tomes, but they are a poor substitute for concise beginner books.

I believe he's hoping the whole legal system would be forced to become less ponderous - sad and not terribly admirable hope.

I have lived the reality of ponderous engineering processes which need weeks to approve the smallest imaginable change.

Estonia is looking quite intriguing... the low/simple tax thing could be quite tempting for those of us sick of the high/ponderous western european taxes.

Java is probably better for larger, more ponderous, enterprisey projects.

Are you seriously posing the question of why a ponderous government bureaucracy hasn't streamlined a process and made it user friendly?

The ponderous locomotive, with its various appurtenances, is dispensed with, and the light aerial fluid that we breathe is the substituted motor!

We're talking the slowest, most ponderous development cycles imaginable.

Python's syntax is already pretty ponderous, this kind of thing pushes it rapidly toward bash-like incomprehensibility.

Once we got past the big fight about "always showing your work" not being a 'for all time, forever' edict but instead for a 'these problems while you are learning' edict, it became possible to do math in this ponderous way, but only when learning and only when training our minds on the steps and alerting ourselves to the places we were likely to make mistakes.

Ponderous definitions

adjective

slow and laborious because of weight; "the heavy tread of tired troops"; "moved with a lumbering sag-bellied trot"; "ponderous prehistoric beasts"; "a ponderous yawn"

See also: heavy lumbering

adjective

having great mass and weight and unwieldiness; "a ponderous stone"; "a ponderous burden"; "ponderous weapons"

adjective

labored and dull; "a ponderous speech"