Gargantua

Example Sentences

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In 1995, Federated, the department store chain with an appetite like Gargantua, had already taken over Macy’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2021

These include Thurman Sensing, the conservative who had written about Gargantua.

From Slate • Nov. 22, 2021

Gargantua olives, he joked, came one per can.

From Washington Post • Oct. 9, 2019

Surely Don Quixote or Moby Dick or Gargantua and Pantagruel would all be classed as postmodern novels, but they were written in the 17th, 19th and 16th centuries respectively – so what’s going on there?

From Salon • Aug. 20, 2012

“Friar John” is a mighty man of valor, who figures equivocally in the story of Gargantua and Pantagruel.

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver