Sentence examples for ponding from inspiring English sources
The word "ponding" is not standard in written English
It is often used in specific contexts, particularly in engineering or environmental discussions related to water accumulation. Example: "The heavy rain resulted in ponding on the road, making it difficult for vehicles to pass."
noun
The excessive accumulation of water at low-lying areas that remains after 48 hours after the end of rainfall under conditions conducive to drying.
"You could see where water had already been ponding," Mr. Hill said.
"Because of all the different angles in the roof, as soon as I've fixed one bit, then the water ponding shifts to another area".
Charles Drda, transportation maintenance director for the State Department of Transportation, explained how potholes most commonly occur, from weather changes that occur at the beginning of spring: "Asphalt is a permeable surface, so water will go through asphalt, and where there are defects, they will concentrate in that area, or else where you get ponding.
Many emergency officials said they were used to seeing the flooding from a winter thaw, either from "ponding" by rain and snow melt behind clogged drains -- the kind of flooding most likely to occur in cities -- or along the shores of rivers and streams that have been clogged by ice dams.
The time is called the ponding time.
Along the coastal strip there are several salt flats, or sabkhas, formed by the ponding and evaporation of water behind coastal dunes.
But it's less replicated over the pond, where sitcoms tend to be ensemble jobs.
When I wasn't worrying about how to stop the water breaching my bodily barriers, I was fretting about catching pond life in the miniature drag net that is a swimming costume on an ample bosom.
A week or so ago, when there was a weeny temperate gap in the Arctic spring, I noticed that the pond was heaving with froggies, with one clump of them clinging to a white thing.
"I'd go from being a medium fish in a small pond to just another ex-con".
Gone are the days when the garden was off limits to all but the most inquisitive of future footballers – it's now a public space and, with some inevitability, there's a Costa cup floating in the pond.
