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Sentence Examples Several colossal, yet dormant, volcanoes lorded over a steamy jungle realm of rice paddies, nipa huts, majestic palm trees, and lush undergrowth. I actually thought about charging for it, which would have been a colossal mistake. Her new album contains a colossal 18 tracks, some of them traditional songs, some instrumental traditional airs, reels, jigs and waltzes. At that moment one of the colossal dark shapes passes directly under where we are standing. Its colossal doors and cathedral-like interiors admitted great steam yachts of the period, with tall masts and rigging standing. Conner rose and stretched, his lupine muzzle gaping wide in a colossal yawn, the muscles rippling across his broad back. It's an error in judgment so colossal that it can't even be whispered aloud. They are on all the time and use a colossal amount of electricity and overheat. New World tropical leafcutter ants create colossal underground metropolises, each housing several million workers that tend huge fungus gardens. Once a commentator commits a major rhetorical gaffe or colossal misstatement of fact, it becomes impossible to take them seriously. The black limousine came slowly around the corner and pulled up next to the colossal sight that was Air Force One. The four guardsmen stepped aside as she approached the colossal arched doors. He is looney tunes but harmless, and his contribution to the game is colossal. Your summer has been a colossal mess, but other folks have been lousing things up, too. The ferocious energy shot into the sky, and the colossal beam was visible from miles around, until slowly, it faded away. The colossal irony is that a madman who rescued her from her folly was the same madman who later killed her. Today, the colossal bronze statue of Atlas stands on the site of the Mills house. A tall sandalwood tree, the transverse section of a teak trunk and the colossal egg of an ostrich are some of the other fascinating exhibits. The first oil was produced in the 1930s and in the 1940s and '50s Saudi oil exports began to bring in colossal wealth. The strain, as a punter tries to manoeuvre a fully laden trolley around the end of an aisle is just colossal. Show More Sentences On view were several large-scale objects and numerous small and medium-sized maquettes for colossal outdoor pieces. Plus there's a colossal boot, loads of space inside, extremely comfortable seats and a genuine sense of quality. Thanks to some very generous donations and a colossal amount of hard work, it's all taken shape. She has put on a colossal amount of weight though, so I hope she's doing ok and it's not a bad sign. For any of them to become a reality would require a massive amount of consultation, colossal investment and a great deal of faith. So colossal was the output that Blackburn was the greatest weaving town in the world. The amount of money generated for the local economy in salaries alone is colossal. Yet it is a colossal mistake to concentrate on the negative aspects of our society and to be blind to so much of value. Four of his hit films have had sequels, and each one of the follow-ups has been a colossal misfire. The nutrients it drags up are the basis of a colossal food chain with the big pelagic predators at the top of the heap. A colossal black serpent, with a dragon's head, wings, and legs, was twisted around itself like a giant knot. At least the colossal squid isn't likely to join toothfish on the seafood menu. The large ships boast colossal fitness centers, complete with top-of-the-line equipment, personal trainers and scads of classes. Most extraordinary of all is a colossal pair of tortoiseshell and ivory globular vases and covers, probably made as exhibition pieces. Legions of rebellious young blacks, and non-blacks, happily shovel out colossal dollars to revel in this image. The colossal amount of animal manure produced will be used for generating biogas and as fertiliser. I loved looking at the cars, colossal cars of steel, carried along by equally impressive undercarriage and wheels. The fire illuminated a colossal figure that stood about as tall as a skyscraper. In November he went to Bologna and there he made a colossal bronze of the Pope in his role of conqueror of the Bolognese. If the snow is wet, its colossal weight can compound the slide's lethal force. Show More Sentences Well, because of its speed, which was slow, and its size, which was huge, Frances was and is a colossal rain maker. The colossal white columns, which lean forward 20 centimeters, will be returned to their upright position. It was felt that the shadow he cast was so great, there couldn't possibly be a composer who could hold a candle to his colossal talent. The Rajguru, the king's main political advisor, is a man with a colossal ego and doesn't like Raman stealing his thunder. Similarly, the shot of Isaac's Cathedral with its colossal onion domes is awe-inspiring. The vast forested areas grew colossal numbers of trees such as hazel, oak, ash, beech, and many others. Ms Liberty is almost drowned and the city overwhelmed by a colossal tsunami. On the island of Malta, where great colossal statues of Goddesses still stand, is the underground hypogeum. She demonstrates how this colossal structure of deceit clouds the historical record. Obesity has a colossal impact on physical, mental, and social ill health in many parts of the world. A 330-pound, sixteen-foot female colossal squid was caught in early April 2003 in the Ross Sea south of Wellington, New Zealand. Adelie and emperor penguins, Antarctic petrels and Weddell seals, Ross Sea killer whales and colossal squid all thrive in these remote waters. Penguins, orcas, minke whales, colossal squid, seals, krill, and a multitude of other animals all call the ice and ocean home. He indicated a colossal towering figure, easily thirteen foot high, meandering towards us along the wide roads. There can be more than comfort drawn from keeping company with teams whose capabilities are far from colossal. It was the unearned increment which opened the West and laid the basis for our present colossal industrialism. Likewise he has been a colossal force throughout this campaign and his interceptive vision has been an important factor in their progress. Last Friday he died instantly from colossal injuries when he crashed to the ground. That breach turned out to be one of the most colossal of cybertheft incidents. It is, after all, the biggest country on earth with a colossal roll-call of intellectual and artistic geniuses. Show More Sentences In order to avoid colossal budget deficits, many economists say, the U.S. will need to slash benefits, raise taxes, or both. There should be no excuse for failure because colossal sums of money and other resources have been pumped into the Authority. Regardless of what caused them though, the die-offs, like the victims were colossal. In short, the group lacked diversity and as a result demonstrated a colossal example of the failings of groupthink. It all seems like a colossal waste of time and money which could be well spent elsewhere in the beef sector. Then, aged 26, he took on the seemingly impossible challenge of sculpting a colossal statue of the biblical hero, David, from one piece of flawed marble. The amount of methane generated by wildlife is colossal, yet nothing is mentioned about that or waste tip venting of unburnt methane to the atmosphere. I am a colossal fool, completely uncultured, uneducated, unable even to spell opara, poorly dressed, but fortunately not quite ugly enough to have to put a bag over my head. At exactly 1pm, when the ship was about a mile off Beadnell Point, there was a small bang, followed by a colossal explosion which blew off the bow. This colossal structure of iron and glass, despite the gradual decay and depletion it suffered over the 82 years of its existence, had not lost its ability to amaze. A small port had been built and colossal barges looking like giant overflowing matchboxes were being towed the short distance down the coast to Korea. Dive into the colossal family shoe heap to locate missing orthotic. On the surface, it would appear to be a colossal waste of money. We're encouraged to look up with awe at the colossal deal-makers. They spend colossal amounts of money on their dogs over there. In Tom's World, it's always better to try a swan dive and deliver a colossal belly flop than to step timidly off the board while holding your nose. Even at the remove of twenty years many of the key players in the dreadful tragedy could still not accept that they had made colossal mistakes on the night. I thought it was a mistake of colossal magnitude and I still do. Before long, she's managed to insert herself into the cast, snare her dreamboat, popularize her colossal hairdo and integrate the show for her black friends. As they sauntered through the village's contrasts of pigmy and colossal in architecture, they praisefully took in the unalloyed holiday character of the place. Show More Sentences The colossal room was packed with people of nobility and breeding. It ends with a colossal, anatomically correct forty-six foot tall baby boy. Abandoning the project now, ANS officials note, would make all that spending a colossal waste. I survived about thirty-five years of it myself without calling in sick or making colossal mistakes or going postal whenever it was that time of the month. Standing in the shadows of the colossal statues in front of the twin temples of Abu Simbel, one can only feel humble by human ingenuity, both past and present. But to have a machete-wielding wild woman and a baseball bat-brandishing hero and to never once get a good look at their handiwork seems like a colossal gyp. His decision to coerce Netanyahu into imposing a 10-month settlement freeze was also a colossal misjudgment. She still has the colossal cojones to say all that dough is what she personally earned. As colby notes, it was a colossal failure, and not because of Republican opposition. He fell on top of a colossal butte overlooking a dense jungle. Along with a colossal statue of Athena, bases for busts inscribed with the names of Homer, Herodotus and other noted literary figures were found here. For Celtic's French defender has shown a propensity for injudicious decision-making when finding himself in the white heat of colossal continental confrontations. Among the colossal redwoods, proportions change and dimensions shift. There is no need for an alibi to defend the colossal failure. The colossal warships aligned themselves to their correct vectors. Frida is a colossal woman, in girth and stature, and she becomes the dark star at the center of this disconcerting debut. Stepping off the airplane and into the Houston humidity, the first sight I spotted was not my homesick sister Laura, but a colossal bronze statue of George H.W. Bush. Yet Diana, with its soporific romance and awful dialogue, is a colossal bore. It is also the only building in the parish with colossal order columns. Sluggish acting and leaden dialogue make this drama a colossal no-no. Show More Sentences Two mammoth horns curved out from the head stretching up along the sides of a colossal diadem of brilliant brass encircling the bony ridged cranium of the beast. Lapidus became notorious in the 1950s, an era that liked its modernism discreet, for flamboyant hotel designs that were often called gaudy, garish, splashy and colossal. It was of colossal figures that would have been of white marble, surfaced in part in rocailles, which would have made them appear to be of a single piece. Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, which later became a Disney movie, featured an encounter between a colossal squid and a French naval vessel. Meet Phoenix, the French lop-eared rabbit, who tips the scales at a colossal 1st after being kept in a hutch all day by her former owners, who found her too aggressive. I'm not expecting to be particularly impressed by a religious icon, but my jaw drops at the size and imposing beauty of this colossal gold-leafed statue. Many of the projects, it turns out, have actually been built, and they've proved colossal duds, leading a growing chorus of critics to question the studies' methods. Turbulence within the super-hot plasma has a nasty habit of transporting the heat out as fast as colossal electric currents and particle beams can shovel it in. Trent's bilious name-calling, vows of revenge, and cheap martyrdom are no deeper than those of any car-less teenager, but his colossal production crystallized his complaints. Beyond the event horizon of our own evolutionary history there may lie the colossal remains of a hundred different would-be histories of intelligent life on Earth. We, in olden days, had towering kooks and colossal villains. Two colossal works by Verdi and Schoenberg explore the power, the meaning and the consequences of religious belief. Such colossal aeonian alterations in the world's climate are not the only ones. Don't let us spoil the Xmas holidays by a chore as colossal as it is disagreeable, and as disagreeable as it is unnecessary. On 65 minutes a colossal brawl erupted when Georges Fages kicked Derek Turner on the chin following a tackle on Fages. The colossal impact 200 million years ago left a crater the size of Kildare in St George's Channel. But the quarantine, lifted just 10 days in, was a colossal failure. In 75, he erected a colossal statue of Apollo, begun under Nero, and he dedicated a stage of the theater of Marcellus. A steel wire mesh pulled taut between two enormous steel hoops, it remains an ethereal and an uncertain form despite its colossal scale. Antarctic sea life includes penguins, blue whales, orcas, colossal squids and fur seals. Show More Sentences Egyptian civilisation is renowned for its colossal pyramids, temples and monumental tombs. New dating of the colossal Deccan volcanic eruptions bolsters the idea that the Chicxulub asteroid impact had help in wiping out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Included are colossal heads, a large-scale throne, and monumental stelae in addition to precious small-scale vessels, figures, adornments, and masks. Badal further said, the men in uniform led by the Punjab Police chief had succeeded in limiting the magnitude of the damage and pre-empting a colossal tragedy. When the supply falls short he employs his powerful effodient feet to hurl the earth from the roots of the tree and bring it down by his colossal strength. In Conquest's opinion, the visceral reaction to Nazism entails a verdict that it was morally worse than Stalinism, even if its eventual hecatomb was a less colossal one. With the colossal Diocletian's Palace, built in the countryside but later turned into a fortified city, a form of residential castle emerges, that anticipates the Middle Ages. One very famous Sultan, Moulai Ismail of Meknes, in Morocco, had as many as 25,000 European slaves who participated in the building of his colossal stables. Cult images are common in many cultures, though they are often not the colossal statues of deities which characterized ancient Greek art, like the Statue of Zeus at Olympia. The famous row of four colossal statues outside the main temple at Abu Simbel each show Rameses II, a typical scheme, though here exceptionally large. Lee Lawrie's colossal bronze Atlas, Rockefeller Center, New York. But to keep the state intact after it had been formed was a colossal task. The site shows a number of the characteristics of Olmec culture, including depictions of jaguars, colossal heads and images of figures of rotund children. The colossal amount of water flowing over the waterfall created the curved shape of the cove because the lip was more heavily eroded than the sides. Instead of maintaining warts-and-all support for this colossal national mission, however, these summer soldiers expressed surprise and disdain that there are any warts at all. The range of beers available to beer drinkers now is colossal and we're seeing real competition between pubs who want to serve the best selection of real ales. Colossal squid have occasionally been observed attacking and feeding on Antarctic toothfish as they were being hauled in by fishers. By 1972, Oldenburg transformed these waterworks into the regal celadon Proposal for a Cathedral in the Form of a Colossal Faucet, Lake Union, Seattle. Related to slugs and snails, this monster from the deep, along with its cousin the Colossal Squid, is the largest invertebrate in the world. Opener Colossal Estates starts with an Air-like swirl and turns into the sound of futuristic elevator music. Show More Sentences This monster from the deep, along with its cousin the Colossal Squid, is the largest invertebrate in the world. From school, Sally knows that the Colossal Squid has the largest eye of any creature in the animal kingdom. Express yourself to dead-beat dads with a Colossal Cowpie from Tongue In Cheek. Take a peeksy around this Colossal theatre. You will no doubt notice that most of your comrades, your fellow patrons of the curious, have disappeared. Examples from Classical Literature A colossal and formless something was rushing across the field of his vision. We proceeded along its valley, where colossal planes and elms, as well as robinia and willows, afforded a welcome shade. The principal chamber within the colonnade contained the colossal statue of Athen Parthenos. One side of the square was illuminated with the word Wucics, and the other with the word Avram in colossal letters. The cirri disappeared by degrees, and the cumuli towered up on the horizon in colossal masses. All else on his canvas is subordinated to the grim image of the colossal Puritan. What colossal statues, hewn out of one block of stone and towering to the sky, with the pschent crowns of their diadems! He will then proceed to plunder and discrown the very kings that had assisted him in erecting his colossal power. The flooring of these colossal garrets has crevices in it through which one can look down into the abysm, the church, below. It was like a colossal gathering for naachtmaal at a Dutch dorp, but every man was black. To-night he stands on the Roof of the World, a solitary, colossal figure upright on the lone Pamirs. When I had completed the model for the base of the tazza, a desire came over me to model a group of colossal dimensions. From thenceforth she lived solely for deeds of charity on a colossal scale. On the acroteria, or pedestal, at the top, is a colossal statue of S. Michael with vestments adorned by a gilded pattern. Even as the colossal one approached, Miguel Alvarado caught sight of the slim young nut-brown girl under the algarroba tree. Nisana trilled an order to Abara, who rode the colossal bulk of Mister Johnson at the head of the line. The thing was chinless, and its small, foreheadless head surrounded its colossal body like a cannon ball on a hill top. As he stood there, illumined by the rising moon, he seemed colossal. In front of the dromos is a colossal figure consisting of a single stone. Erect or supine, these colossal statues were strewn all over the island. Show More Sentences Makalu was immediately opposite us with its colossal precipices. Against it stand four colossal Nubians, as black as night, dressed in white marble garments. In another moment the colossal mechanism went striding by me, and passed uphill towards Pyrford. New Zealand scientists Kat Bolstad from Auckland University of Technology led the dissection of a colossal squid. Patsy Horan and two of his satellites testified to a most colossal aggregation of perjuries. All is still on a colossal scale, but playful, capricious, phantasmagoric. The colossal figure of the centaur was plainly distinguishable. Charlemagne was at this time building up his colossal empire. Oceans and land and sky are avenues for our colossal commerce. Everything was on a colossal scale, and trim as a Dutch interior. They have not erected to themselves colossal statues upon pedestals of human bones, to provoke and insult the tardy hand of heavenly retribution. A colossal figure, carved apparently in some white stone, loomed indistinctly beyond the rhododendrons through the hazy downpour. And the Seigneur de Bracieux cast a profound glance over his colossal rotundity with a loud laugh. Having decisively thrashed the great Russian Empire, Japan promptly set about dreaming a colossal dream of empire for herself. With a cry that sounded not unlike the bleat of a sheep, the colossal creature shuffled into the water and was soon submerged. One of my friends, Captain Paul Bos of Havre, has often affirmed that he met one of these monsters of colossal dimensions in the Indian seas. Before us were two colossal statues of glistening white crystal. At first he had fancied the Red One to be some colossal statue, like Memnon, rendered vocal under certain temperature conditions of sunlight. Excuse me, I see what a person of colossal ignorance and simplicity can do. In the portico is the colossal statue of Constantine the Great. Show More Sentences This surplus it was compelled to dispose of abroad, and, what of its colossal plans, it needed money. Paul's telling London it was midnight, and well do I recall the deep, deliberate tones, so full charged with colossal phlegm and force. The colossal head of another statue of Rameses was found near by. It was said of her that she was a Frenchwoman of good birth who, living with her mother, possessed a colossal fortune. Here I was thrown upon my back, and beheld standing over me a colossal ape-like creature, white and hairless except for an enormous shock of bristly hair upon its head. Silent, grim, colossal, the big city has ever stood against its revilers. Magnified by its lift against the sky and by the soldier's testifying sense of the formidableness of a near enemy, the group appeared of heroic, almost colossal, size. And while dubai has certainly been vivified this year with growing tourism and services exports, the emirate must be careful to jump back on the colossal credit wagon. A long, lingering, colossal sigh followed, and his heart broke. The bourgeoisie, during its rule of scarce one hundred years, has created more massive and more colossal productive forces than have all preceding generations together. We sent our young men out as instructors to every nation of the federation, and the movement had reached colossal proportions before the Mahars discovered it. Find more words! 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