colossal
Example Sentences
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The Partition of India in August 1947 was a colossal, and very British, fiasco.
Burn, making his first appearance since breaking a rib and puncturing a lung, was even named man of the match after a colossal performance.
From BBC
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.”
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
