colossus

Example Sentences

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Don’s suit is indented with billowing wrinkles, perhaps to suggest the idea of movement, as if the colossus is soaring through the air.

From Slate • Jun. 2, 2026

Legendary Jazz musician Sonny Rollins, who was known as the "saxophone colossus", has died aged 95.

From BBC • May 26, 2026

Weak domestic demand and huge government production incentives have created an industrial colossus that exports an estimated $2 trillion more manufactured goods than it imports.

From Barron's • May 14, 2026

Cook, who built Apple into a colossus with influence coursing through geopolitics, pop culture and the daily lives of billions of people, said he would step down as chief executive on Sept. 1.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 21, 2026

The colossus of Wagner is an inescapable reality of late-nineteenth- century music, indeed of recent Western civilisation.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall