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:

  • In Louisiana, politics and politicians have always been a fascinating business — and business is the word — but none of the bosses could compare with larger-than-life Huey P. Long (1893–1935).

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Parker is remembered as "a larger-than-life field general who could wield the entire arsenal of the magazine to tell a story with power, insight and drama."

  • célèbre populated by such larger-than-life characters as Haywood, Darrow, and McParland; all wrapped around a history lesson about the class bitterness of a century ago.


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