colossus

Example Sentences

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Early fears that the fast-food colossus would be overly brand conscious and dictate content were allayed.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 17, 2026

He's been a total colossus in this fixture in the past and he was again on Saturday.

From BBC • Mar. 14, 2026

In September, Netflix, the streaming colossus behind fare like Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” and a sinking civilization’s “Poop Cruise,” will present a boxing rematch between 49-year-old Floyd Mayweather Jr. and 47-year-old Manny Pacquiao.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

"Uini is someone who showed the right path through his actions -- and always with a smile," said Galthie about the New Zealand-born colossus.

From Barron's • Feb. 3, 2026

In Egypt, a towering colossus, immobile, beyond the power of the imagination to endow with movement, as fixed in the stone as the tremendous temple columns, a representation of the human shape deliberately made unhuman.

From "Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes" by Edith Hamilton