colossal
Example Sentences
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The facility was taken offline when 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
But now we see this colossal change of heart - delivered in a characteristic blitz of capital letters.
From BBC
Not everyone hailed his “colossal tower”; for some critics it was an “odious column of bolted metal” and a “stupefying folly.”
Two colossal brutes were fighting in front of a stone building just ahead of us, blocking the route in either direction.
From Literature
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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
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