human dynamo
Example Sentences
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Emil, the human dynamo, did more than exhaust his opponents.
From Washington Times • Aug. 2, 2020
Braude portrays Napoleon as a human dynamo ill-equipped to take advantage of the austere charms of the “isle of rest,” as the emperor called his prison.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 10, 2018
But in 1959 those words were being shouted on another Broadway stage by another human dynamo, named Momma Rose and played by Ethel Merman.
From New York Times • Jan. 31, 2013
In reality, though, the composer was far more flawed and infinitely less reverential a figure than we might think, not so much a reclusive genius as a pipe-smoking, caffeine-addicted human dynamo.
From The Guardian • Jul. 29, 2010
They realized, without knowing why, that this man of power, this human dynamo, would quickly dispel the clouds which now rendered the outlook so forbidding.
From The Albert Gate Mystery Being Further Adventures of Reginald Brett, Barrister Detective by Tracy, Louis
