masses
Example Sentences
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There's a battleground of air masses beginning to build across the UK and it's far from clear which will win out.
From BBC
The new findings help explain how supermassive black holes could already exist just 700 million years after the Big Bang, some reaching masses billions of times greater than the Sun.
From Science Daily
People reached by the Journal reported seeing masses of bodies in morgues and cemeteries and believed the death toll to be higher than what’s been acknowledged by authorities.
“Pitt officials have provided no evidence of tampering, but the accusations have been enough to stir the college football masses into a cold sweat.”
From Los Angeles Times
As flying opened up to the masses and air travel became more routine than adventurous, a downgrade in duds followed—mimicking broader shifts in fashions but also a downgrade in the experience.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.