Ponded

According to campus tradition, students are "ponded" on their birthdays. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I could smell the salt out on the Gulf, the baitfish and shrimp in the waves, the warm and stagnant smell of wet sand and dead vegetation and ponded water in the marsh, and the distant hint of rain and electricity in the clouds. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Vernal pools are usually quite small and ponded only during the wetter part of the year. ❋ Unknown (2010)

My example is when continued pressure when Former President Clinton made a comment in S.C. and was ponded on for that comment. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Almost half the reserve area is formed of marismas - freshwater marshes on accumulated clayey silt - where the Guadalquivir river delta has been deflected and ponded by a coastal sand spit (~27,000 ha). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Some large areas do not fully drain through channel systems, but remain ponded well into the growing season. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Therefore, most species are very likely to be adversely affected by loss of shallow wetland habitat as ponded areas dry in response to rising temperatures, a potential decline in precipitation, and permafrost degradation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Such is the case for the unglaciated lowlands of many arctic islands where special ecological niches, such as found at Polar Bear Pass on Bathhurst Island or Truelove Lowland on Devon Island, are produced by unique hydro-climatic regimes and are largely dependent on ponded water produced by spring snowmelt. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Frost came behind the rain, and the resulting scene across the fields was a ponded desecration, frozen like a photograph of ruin, an upheaval painted with the hues of autumn which had bled to mud. ❋ Unknown (2009)

– If she had ordered me to be horse-ponded, I do protest to you, I would not have demurred. ' ❋ Unknown (2008)

'I was never so serious in my life; not that I should like to be horse-ponded in the least, though I would submit to it for a punishment, and out of duty: but then, when it was done, it would be over: now the deuce of study is, there is no end of it! ❋ Unknown (2008)

A porous asphalt surface can improve skid resistance and reduce traffic noise, rutting, and splash due to ponded water on the surface. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Steel support beams rose from a muddy, ponded floor like rusted ribs. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Then he removed one glove and-leaning forward, careful not to step in the blood that had ponded beneath the chair-placed the back of his hand against Decker's forehead. ❋ Preston, Douglas (2005)

And into these came, sweeping over the shattered chine of shingle, gigantic surges from the outer deep, towering as they crossed the bar, and combing against the sky-line, then rushing onward, and driving the huddle of the ponded waves before them. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

Firm, who had been at the head of the valley, repairing some broken hurdles, declared that a water-spout had burst in the bosom of the mountain gorge where the Blue River has its origin, and the whole of its power got ponded back by a dam, which the Sawyer himself had made, at about five furlongs above the mill. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

And the nature of these ponded deposits is going to tell us what that water -- how much water there was, and how these rocks got in this crater, perhaps some by water, some by ejection from craters, and we're not sure what the balance of those forces is on Mars, and that's what we're going to learn, one of the things we'll learn from this rover. ❋ Unknown (2004)

[I dunno] mate, [shipping] that [across the pond] 'll cost quite a bit ❋ Cockroach (2007)

[Veronica] is [frequently] [at the pond]. ❋ Wyrdgyrl (2014)

[Waterloo] doesn't have a single beach for [tanning]. So we had to go [ponding] instead. ❋ UWaterloo (2009)

[Stop] [ponding] me! ❋ Abbicus (2019)

"So [James], how [is it] [across the Pond]?" ❋ David (2003)

[I would] really [love to] pond [Amy Pond]. ❋ Anonymouse42139 (2010)

[Holden]: Have you seen Luke and [Noah]? Lily: Yes, I think they just went down to the pond Luke: That was the best [swim] I have ever had. Noah: Oh I know. ❋ Cjlxx (2009)

1. I have five fish swimming in my pond. 2. Have you guys checkout pond.6te.[net] recently. 3. Have you read the latest Billy [Chronicle] at pond.6te.net yet. It's worse than [the last one] and that must have been really hard. ❋ Jordon Peace (2005)

On video, in shop windows, listening to recordings of self and [getting stuck] in front of mirrors - like [Narcissus] looking at himself in [the pond], but with a 21st century twist. i.e.: Jonathan spent ages ponding in Selfridges' window. ❋ Kafka129 (2006)

"[Julian], stop [ponding] our [next door neighbor] and come eat your dinner!" ❋ J00lesC (2009)