Example sentences for: prodigious

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

  • They really have no idea how exactly life began, or whether its emergence was in some sense inevitable or simply a prodigious bit of good fortune.

  • Minor was so guilt-ridden over his prodigious sexual appetites that he committed an autopenectomy, reducing his organ to a stub that extended about one inch from its base.

  • She also lost a prodigious lot of talent, either by firing people, forcing them out, or forcing them first to throw up and then to give up.

  • The book's prodigious research is taken to validate the view of Johnson's presidency as a Shakespearean tragedy in which his megalomaniacal commitment to the Vietnam War ruined his ambitious liberal domestic agenda.

  • (The prodigious James Wood, the most gifted literary critic of his generation, springs to mind.)


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