Example sentences for: larger-than-life

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

  • The agents' triumph was not complete, however, until the late 1980s and early 1990s, after all the studios had been bought by larger, mostly international corporations, and colorless corporate executives replaced the larger-than-life moguls of the studio era.

  • The government started its case, all the papers report, by contrasting Bill Gates' video deposition (displayed on a "larger-than-life screen" says the WP ; the NYT says "10-foot") in which he said he knew nothing more about an alleged market-carving meeting with browser rival Netscape than what he read in the newspaper (actually he mentioned the Wall Street Journal , a fact included by everybody--including the WSJ --except USAT ), with a Gates email in which he states "..

  • Furthermore, all events are accompanied by the larger-than-life personality of Los Angeles and its residents, which makes for a memorable experience regardless of the venue.

  • The tragedy of JQA's life is that, for all his spectacular achievements, he was doomed to feel inadequate next to his larger-than-life father.

  • Carey specializes in the picaresque, in one-man novels about larger-than-life social misfits who must cope with rotten childhoods, loveless families, hideous disfigurements, and secret shames.


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