colossal

Example Sentences

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Not everyone hailed his “colossal tower”; for some critics it was an “odious column of bolted metal” and a “stupefying folly.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Two colossal brutes were fighting in front of a stone building just ahead of us, blocking the route in either direction.

From Literature

Some of the funds will go towards a colossal plan to renovate the Louvre, which French President Emmanuel Macron announced last year.

From Barron's

Japan pulled the plug on nuclear power after a colossal earthquake and tsunami sent three reactors at the Fukushima atomic plant into meltdown in 2011.

From Barron's

The colossal weaknesses in Nancy's formation, the giant amounts of space conceded by his players were the problem again.

From BBC