Her footsteps fell ponderously on the wooden floor.
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Ponderously
Synonyms for "ponderously" (19 found)
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Closest matches (4)
Strong matches (6)
Adverb(4 words)
Related words (9)
Adjective(1 words)
Noun(1 words)
slow sort
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More general
2 entriesadverbadverb of manner
More specific
9 entriesCollocations
6 entriesmove ponderouslyperform ponderouslyproceed ponderouslyspeak ponderouslystare ponderouslywrite ponderously
Inflections
2 entriesmore ponderouslymost ponderously
Derivations
2 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
Sir Ernest Heavywether rose ponderously.
Source: wiktionary
Rooney and his team-mates started ponderously, as if sensing the enormity of the occasion, but once Scholes began to link with Ryan Giggs in the middle of the park, the visitors increased the tempo with Sunderland struggling to keep up.
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A narrow and deserted street in deep shadow, high houses, innumerable windows with Venetian blinds, a dead silence, grass sprouting between the stones, imposing carriage archways right and left, immense double doors standing ponderously ajar.
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