Example sentences for: goliath

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

  • The Accademia’s uncontested star, the great David (which once stood in the Piazza della Signoria, now substituted by a life-size copy), provides the perfect object lesson of the finished product, a hero infused with all the contained energy needed to hurl that stone at Goliath.

  • Amsterdammers fight for everyone’s rights against oppression, or the right of David to stand against the faceless Goliath of bureaucracy.

  • Here, Goliath is trying to rub out David in front of a mass audience.

  • One of Tintoretto’s best, the Marriage at Cana, is on the wall opposite the entrance, while three of Titian’s most vivid canvases decorate the chancel: Cain and Abel, Abraham Sacrificing Isaac, and David and Goliath, their drama heightened by the perspective di sotto in su (looking up from below).

  • Stallone has certainly had his blockbusters over the years, but he has also turned himself into a Goliath of camp.


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