colossal

How To Use colossal In A Sentence

• I leaned a minute against a Corinthian column; I lamented that no pontiff arrived with victims and aruspices, of whom I might inquire, what, in the name of birds and garbage, put me so terribly out of humour! for you must know I was very near being disappointed, and began to think Piranesi and Paolo Panini had been a great deal too colossal in their view of this venerable structure. Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents
• Many of the wrecks around our coasts are either mine or torpedo victims, and either way there is a colossal bang, the ship gets a big chunk blown out of it and the rest lands in a heap nearby.
• a colossal tsunami destroyed the Minoan civilization in minutes
• Plus there's a colossal boot, loads of space inside, extremely comfortable seats and a genuine sense of quality.
• £35,000 is a colossal amount of debt to start your working life with.
• The colossal arms disappearing into her coat's dolman sleeves, tweed flecked with purple and gold. THE SHIPPING NEWS
• Colossal emergents with overarching crowns a hundred meters across dominated the chlorotic topog'raphy, while smaller yet still gigantic growths fought for a share of life-giving sunlight. Mid Flinx
• On the island of Malta, where great colossal statues of Goddesses still stand, is the underground hypogeum.
• The more usual scenario is for colossal public art to cause a small flutter, then be ignored. Times, Sunday Times
• colossal crumbling ruins of an ancient temple