monstrous

Example Sentences

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It became clear that what at first appeared to him and his father as another of the floods that afflicted Mystic every few years grew inexorably through the night until it became monstrous.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026

These deficits have accumulated into a monstrous debt.

From Barron's • Apr. 3, 2026

When “Frankenstein” was first published without Shelley’s name, and chatter about its author began to spread, an early commentary in the British Critic scorned the dissonance between Shelley’s womanhood and the novel’s monstrous narrative.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2026

"I am outraged that this monstrous ballroom was designed and the construction of the original without any approval," another said.

From BBC • Mar. 5, 2026

They’d fashioned sticks into fake spears and pretended the two of them alone could defend their city from the creatures of the Greater Jungle, the monstrous beasts of legend.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray