Example sentences for: colossi

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

  • Back in the 1950s, twin colossi sat astride the Hudson, figuratively glowering at each other: Betty Friedan in Grandview on the West Bank, writing The Feminine Mystique , and John Cheever in Scarborough on the East Bank, writing the Wapshot books and the short stories.

  • It's played amid the cornfields of the Midwest by lanky boys with flaxen hair and 'twixt the housing projects by the troubled shores of Coney Island, where otherwise powerless young African-Americans bestride the courts like colossi.

  • The four monumental colossi of Ramses II that frame the entrance stand 20 m (65 ft) high and they are aligned to face the rising sun, to be infused with the energy of the sun god each day.

  • Reliefs carved on Ramses’ thrones depict the Nile gods, and in a niche between the two central colossi is a small statue to the god Ra-Herekhty (Ra the sun god combined with Horus) with whom Ramses shares the temple.

  • To see these two former legislative colossi bury their ideological differences and come together on behalf of American underpants is either inspiring or grotesque, depending on your perspective.


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