Example sentences for: colossal

How can you use “colossal” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • And because education courses are a colossal waste of time, many people who would make wonderful teachers never get the opportunity.

  • You'll be floating contentedly along in Klein's pleasant, foamy prose--"the gorgeous display of her colossal adiposity, her thundering, moonfaced, creviced posterior, evokes a vastly delicious, (sub)lunar landscape in which an explorer could lose himself in pleasure forever.

  • "The central question," wrote Times correspondent Nicholas D. Kristof in his Hong Kong dispatch, "is whether Hong Kong amounts to a colossal Trojan horse: a prize so glorious that China's Communists cannot leave it outside the gates but which, once inside, will destroy those in power" with its irrepressible example of roiling capitalism and affluence, and its concentrated economic power.

  • More than any of the empire’s colossal arenas, soaring aqueducts, or triumphal arches, you’ll find the everyday reality of Roman life in the bakeries, wine shops, groceries, and brothels of Pompeii, a town of about 25,000 founded before the 6th century b.c.

  • They need to sell the case that our colossal wage inequality is not a fact of nature; that a progressive labor movement can make our workplaces more decent and more productive; and that strong unions can leverage gains not only for their members but for the broader society.


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