Example sentences for: formidable

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

  • For instance, in the Navy, so the story explains, the plan to develop unmanned bombers ran into the formidable opposition of the carrier admirals.

  • He was met by “…a formidable army of 20,000 warriors, their bows decorated by myriad colored banners…”

  • When Beatty does commit, his insecurities present formidable obstacles.

  • There's an odd lacuna in the piece, where it describes the formidable staffing of "one of the best-connected Washington investigative agencies," Investigative Group International.

  • It was a formidable weapon but weighed so much that it could be transported only 5-kms (3-miles) per day; often the fighting had finished before it could be brought into play.


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