How To Use Massive In A Sentence

Rows of brick garden apartments all backed onto a massive common garden: a shared backyard for children to play, dogs to gambol, and families to eat picnics together. Day of Honey
Equally badly behaved, but a little calmer and better informed, were the massive numbers from the labor unions.
Though serfs were freed in 1864, they remained poor sharecroppers and staged a massive peasant uprising in 1907.
There's no massive hills and the swim won't be rough. Times, Sunday Times
Thrice a day, the performers have been taking to the stage under the massive fireproof tents, which can accommodate up to 2,500 viewers.

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In present-day usage, despite Fowler's strictures, concern for classical and linguistic purity is minimal and the coining of etymological hybrids is casual and massive.
They are happening in a system that's constantly working to full capacity, massively understaffed and unable to cope with the impact of cuts to social care. Times, Sunday Times
Once the victim's mind had "snapped" into cult mode, the unsnapping requires a massive assault on the victim's mind to untangle the coded messages injected into it by the sinister forces of the cult leader. Warren Adler: Martha Marcy May Marlene: A Brave Movie
He ran up massive debts borrowing from loan sharks.
Gulf War veterans fighting to prove hundreds of former servicemen have been crippled and killed by a mysterious syndrome caused by their time in the conflict have been dealt a massive blow - their own solicitors say the case is unprovable.
Sinosteel, another Chinese-owned metals conglomerate, has plans to develop a massive opencast iron ore mine in the Weld range, a ridge of hills 400 miles north-east of Perth. Australia leases out mineral-rich land as China's hunger for resources grows
The U.S. economy is operating with a massive amount of slack" or unutilized resources such as workers and manufacturing capacity says Sal Guatieri, an economist at Toronto-based BMO Capital Markets. Canada Bank Shift Signals Strong Recovery
I thought maybe my family would like it too (little did I realize back then just how much my family does not care for Indian food), and so I made it for them, increasing the mustard seeds but massively reducing the pepper flakes for my heat-averse mother (I did not know to sub in paprika then). Tried & True Goan Style Vindaloo
The cabin crews have balloted for industrial action and a massive ‘yes’ vote is expected.
So before they ship out, the Marines are undertaking what amounts to a massive deprogramming campaign for their own troops.
The track, released on Monday, is tipped to be a massive Christmas hit.
Astronomers believe that quasars are galaxies with very massive black holes in the center.
The grain distribution system currently has massive over-capacity, meaning any company can handle extra volume if it can sell it.
Rosheen watched as Postine came into view on the big screen, her massive frame picked out in infra-red against the night.
Club members can get a massive discount of ￡50.
Its author believes that Border's bankruptcy and massive store shutdown is a result of the dummying down of books and America's ultimate good taste. Laura Munson: Books Without Borders
To make your life a sound structrure that will serve others and fulfil your own potential, you have to remember that strength, however massive , can't endure unless it has the interlocking supprt of others. Go it alone and you'll inevitably tumble.
That unexpectedly collapses it into a black hole, a supermassive region with a gravitational pull so strong not even light can escape.
Certainly there have been powerful nonviolent movements in which strikes, work stoppages, non-cooperation, and massive civil disobedience have been effective without any religious or moral reference.
The machine had a massive storage capacity which could nevertheless fit into a handbag.
Its massive back pushed up against the ceiling; the wooden timbers groaned and dust sifted down, making Rafe cough.
Customers seem fed up with lugging around massive lap warmers.
Elegantly erotic statues stood once more in alcoves around the room, and the massive murals were nearly finished.
But the Oregon story also illustrates some of the difficulties that will accompany legislative changes on such a massive scale.
Florida's Democratic candidate for governor, Alex Sink, said Monday she will begin airing a rare two-minute-long TV ad attacking Republican opponent Rick Scott for the massive fraud scandal that occurred on his watch at his former hospital company. Alex Sink Attack Ad RIPS Rick Scott Over Massive Medicare Fraud (VIDEO)
Massive investment in research and development; Put in place an industrial policy that prepares for the future and reduces the risks of delocalization; Support small and medium-sized businesses through the creation of regional participation funds and by reserving for them a percentage of public contracts; Give priority to business investment by lowering tax where the profit is reinvested and increasing it where it is distributed to shareholders. Archive 2007-02-01
Someone had slipped a massive overdose of chloral hydrate into the bottle. SKORPION'S DEATH
The most commanding presence is the horse chestnut tree, often a massive green tower covered with bright white lanterns. Times, Sunday Times
Defendants file massive summary judgment motions, seeking to dismiss every claim on various grounds.
This massive infusion of money and credit has yet to satisfy the appetites of airline executives.
He suffered massive brain damage in the soccer ground tragedy.
Detectives have launched a massive poster campaign to help in the search for the two killers.
They based their predictions on one million-acre feet a year deficit of the Colorado River, massive amounts of evaporation from the lake and the viscous effects of a warming world from climate change. Dr. Reese Halter: Global Warming, Drought and the Grim Reaper
The vote - 110 to 46 in the House and 31 to 8 in the Senate - came as mayors, town managers, social service agencies, and local activists across Massachusetts began to digest the massive cuts the budget proposal calls for, including up to a 15 percent cut in noneducation local aid for municipalities. CapeCodToday Blog Chowder
Across her back I threw a soft light blanket before heaving the massive English saddle across.
At that house, he would stop playing his game of solitaire over in the corner table and, cigar-smoke billowing around his massive figure, have me ask him in Yiddish -- bitte mia gelt -- "please give me some money," before peeling off a fresh ten soles bill. David Kersh: Time-travel to Peru With My Son
There was a massive public outcry against the harsh prison sentence.
We have been massively underspent over the past three years. The Sun
He reports that the historically designated building will house units from 1,450 square feet to a massive 3,449 square feet over its five floors.
OTOH I’ve always been fascinated by the massive blind spot in multiculti and PC discourse which refuses to acknowledge the oppressive and discriminatory elements in many non western cultures. Cheeseburger Gothic » Drop your bombs between the minarets, down Geneva way-ay-ay-aaayyy…
The car was launched with a massive media/advertising blitz, involving newspapers, magazines, television and radio.
Suddenly there was a big wave of flame coming across the garden towards me, a massive fireball. Times, Sunday Times
There is talk of a massive fall in profits and a slump in turnover - talk that some outposts of the empire were simply not performing well enough to survive.
A spokesman said the two victims had died in hospital and added that a massive manhunt was under way. The Sun
Any more massive star that exhausts its nuclear fuel will collapse completely under its own gravity.
In almost every sense, this is a massive improvement on the first game.
Record ￡9.5million striker Juan Pablo Angel only arrived after Christmas and has been a massive disappointment.
She said a post-mortem examination revealed he had suffered ‘a massive heart attack’ caused by a heart abnormality.
It was adequate though and the Explorer could also boast massive cargo capacity, extensive research facilities and most importantly the ability to serve as a mobile dock for semi-independent ships.
Soon the guard - about half a dozen soldiers and NCOs in all - marched out with an extremely rapid step and exaggerated movements; they came to a halt with a massive goose-step.
In town is another story, as its massive bulk can make it unwieldy in tight parking areas.
That debugged wonder machine then replaces the pedestrian, proven technology because it offers massive performance improvements and is now far more reliable. Would You Bring Back NGLT-or SLI? - NASA Watch
The mountainous Mid-Coastal Sedimentary ecoregion lies outside of the coastal fog zone and is typically underlain by massive beds of sandstone and siltstone in contrast to the volcanics of Ecoregion 1d. Ecoregions of Oregon (EPA)
They are also massively supported by volunteers who undertake thousands of hours of unpaid labour. Times, Sunday Times
Will computers make trains so massively more controllable as to amount almost to a new form of transport?
The city's historic center, which had been largely spared massive bombing raids until then, was almost completely destroyed during this attack.
It takes a massive toll on you doing hard and difficult storylines. The Sun
Stupid fcuking Beckinista dumbshit, take to the internet and look into the massive heat waves that occur, get this, during our winters. Think Progress » Global warming denier Sarah Palin to appear at ‘Oil Palace’ in Texas.
The flock simultaneously screamed and swooned as Way crooned "Cancer," a dirge about a slow death from the title illness, all while backlit with a massive white spotlight and engulfed in a faux smoke haze. The Washington Post: National, World & D.C. Area News and Headlines - washingtonpost.com
And interestingly, a similar detonator is connected to a massive nuclear device under the city of Munich, set to ignite in eighty hours. Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
The new semi-automated test could at last make massive screening programmes for cervical cancer economically feasible.
At the end of the millennial reign, Satan will be loosed and a massive rebellion against the kingdom and a fierce assault against Christ and His saints will occur.
All three losing candidates appealed against the election results, alleging massive fraud by the government.
The young singer is enjoying massive critical acclaim .
It is a massive secular cathedral, glittering with the best retail opportunities money can buy and here nothing comes cheap, certainly not a top-end restaurant.
These tumors are highly aggressive, with most deaths related to hepatic failure, massive hemorrhage, or metastatic disease.
An irregular elongated window pierces the massive back wall.
Of course, a basic corollary of the theory is that deep drilling should uncover a portion of these massive methane resources.
The school holds over 2, 500 young people in a massive brick structure that can only be described as foreboding.
European farmers are planning a massive demonstration against farm subsidy cuts.
The unit is an orange/red-weathered ignimbrite, which is generally massive and strongly feldsparphyric.
The massive petty crime is implements under the ethyl alcohol function, this by no means coincidence.
Its massive sundials and other structures are a geometry of red sandstone inlaid with dazzling white marble, more like works of modern art than scientific instruments.
My bank incorrectly debits a transfer twice from my account, sending me massively overdrawn.
Exhausted, and at a moment of massive emotional import, unique and unrepeatable, Martin Johnson gets a microphone shoved in his face and is asked for his reaction.
He had massive pop hits sometimes without any promotion at all. Times, Sunday Times
His approach involves massive research combined with a matter-of-fact storytelling style. Times, Sunday Times
A pair of large stone lions preside massively over the approach to the Summer Palace.
The massive cleanup in New Orleans includes some unpleasant, some might say downright disgusting, jobs.
"Suddenly we saw a massive escalation in their blood pressure to very dangerous levels," she said yesterday.
We ran up a massive hotel bill.
It has been carved from a massive slab of marble.
You can't make massive leaps forward unless you think that way. Times, Sunday Times
There is a massive sub-culture there, looking backwards and it's getting more insidious all the time.
MOSCOW - The Moscow Machine-Building Enterprise Salyut on the east side of town has put up a massive Soviet-style poster advertising its need for skilled workers.
Their range could carry massive shells well past the supply ships unloading more than ten miles out to sea. Whicker's War
Combined with other compounds, they created a massive dynamite-type bomb.
But they quickly realised the judge had done them a great disservice and that his report hinged on a massive irony.
Community groups in York are being urged to respond to a rallying cry to take part in a massive city centre parade in September.
Unlike the destruction caused by an earthquake, which may affect several buildings across an expansive area, this disaster involved many buildings and a massive debris pile in a small, confined area.
But it has involved parking a massive mobile recording studio outside my house for two weeks.
Their wings stretched to a massive span of six feet.
Let's watch a massive magnetic anomaly. Times, Sunday Times
I know cigarettes cause cancer, but cancer causes cachexia, which is massive weight loss and appetite loss. Ali A. Rizvi: The Ultimate 9-Step Guide to Looking Good
When the Americans did not give up but rather kept building more planes and tanks, the Japanese responded with massive suicidal attacks, believing that Americans, selfish and mongrelized, could not stand up to such a show of national unity and self-sacrifice. Sea of Thunder
He could see a massive row of cruisers and destroyers, accompanied by a single battleship.
Don't pit your puny wit against my massive intelligence.
The massive ship's boilers were easily recognised, piercing the gloom like giant globes.
The architecture attested to its ancient heritage, with massive castle-like structures adorned with spires and turrets on nearly every building.
A massive explosion ripped through the building.
It effectively means the beautiful sprawling town at the centre of the game becomes a massive playground. The Sun
Knowing that the club would still have a home at which to play would be a massive boost for any would-be investor.
The story is one of massive overheads and razor-thin margins. Times, Sunday Times
A massive exodus of doctors is forcing the government to recruit from abroad.
At the extreme north-west corner of Ngargo Island, near a massive bomb-scar in the rocky cliff, lies a very curious wreck.
Marcasite, when viewed in hand specimen, tends to form crudely banded masses or massive aggregates.
What they have experienced is a life of missed opportunities caused by an aging clerical leadership, massive corruption and a regime that is increasingly dictatorial. Times, Sunday Times
As usual The Beatles have a massive presence with some very interesting articles, well worth a browse through all the items just for some of the stories.
Tuscaloosa resident James Sykes told CNN the massive twister was "like a silent monster.
The thing Matt hasn’t pondered is this: had prosecutions been pursued, then Obama’s policy of massive drone bombings in Afghanistan – that kill civilians right and left – would have led to prosecutions after his team leaves office as well. Matthew Yglesias » The Yoo and Bybee Rulings
The computer can manipulate massive amounts of data.
One big reason that the Court can give corporations such massive giveaways is because their work is buried in complex doctrines and legalese. Wonk Room » The Biggest Supreme Court Case You’ve Never Heard Of
Eventually (due to a massive diversion along some hairy country roads, and some cows crossing) we arrive at our destination.
I put a massive mint in my mouth and my mouth was wide open. The Sun
This massive monetary expansion has been accompanied by a steep downtrend in the federal funds rate.
The removal of huge amounts of material from the underground deposit causes massive subsidence at the surface.
Record ￡9.5million striker Juan Pablo Angel only arrived after Christmas and has been a massive disappointment.
Combined with other compounds, they created a massive dynamite-type bomb.
Halfway through the day I took it down to redo it, and couldn't make it go the right way at all because there was a massive kink in it.
Writing about the building for The New York Times in 1995, Christopher Gray said, "This medieval brick fortress recalls the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, with a massive entry arch, barred windows and a machicolated cornice. Quogue-mire!
Sukarno began to tour Java, addressing massive crowds on the theme of the awakening of national consciousness.
Once, presumably, this quadrangle with its smooth lawns, its massive buildings and the chapel itself was marsh too, where the grasses waved and the swine rootled. A room of one's own
On four dives there we would see a hawksbill turtle, huge parrotfish, various morays ranging from massive to tiny, jack, snapper, batfish and numerous other species.
Once an eruption is initiated, the seal ruptures, suddenly releasing massive amounts of gas, which have been accumulating within the plumbing system of the volcano.
It wasn't until she'd pushed herself across the command deck and gently touched his arm that he pointed down at the massive fumarole below them. Asimov's Science Fiction
The main theme in the media business has been the transformation of relatively discrete producers of entertainment products into massive financial combines.
The massive sulphides are always contained within the Volcano - Sedimentary Complex.
What this did was massively penalize the Netherlands, bumping it out of the seeded teams and making it one of the sides nobody wanted to face.
The steel industry is coddled by trade protection and massive subsidies.
tonight the haddock were shoaling massively in three hundred fathoms
There are already massive researches about sole type complex networks, but the research work which mutually affected between the different types of networks are certainly seldom.
May 10th, 2009 ALLAHABAD - A massive fire engulfed an optical fibre cable factory in Naini area of Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh on Sunday. Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7
Then he died suddenly a year ago, after suffering a massive brain haemorrhage. The Sun
The government found itself confronted by massive opposition.
We also witness huge elk grazing, and for a brief intoxicating moment, a massive moose plodding across a stream.
The film culminates in a massive assault on the police precinct where the stoolie is being held.
In southern Florida, utility companies now grapple with monk parakeets and the massive, nettlesome nests they build atop transmission poles.
One way of viewing the American Social Security Trust fund is as a massive cookie jar filled with IOUs.
This victory was a massive uplift for us.
He played a massive part in supporting all the families back then. The Sun
Ahead, a line of massive, two-tailed scorpions scuttled through the eastern gate and swarmed among fallen hunks of ceiling. GuildWars Edge of Destiny
It would have been a massive blow to lose it at the end. The Sun
The Sun" calls it a massive slap in the face for the United States government.
The trails we went to work on had literally become streams thanks to massive run-off from a new building's parking lot shedding water straight into this watershed area.
It's very pleasing that as you add parallel client loads, the server pretty well just soaks it up with massively sublinear slowdown. Planet Sun
The only sound was that of the digger's massive engine as the machine moved forward and crushed the wooden fence at the end of the former front garden.
New analyses of old seismic data have unveiled a previously unrecognized type of earthquake - quakes created by brief surges of massive glaciers.
Gunnera manicata, the truly massive and most commonly sold kind, is not invasive. Times, Sunday Times
The growth of China's massive economy is beginning to slow as stimulus funds peter out and aggressive monetary tightening measures take effect.
He said the exhibition had been a massive success with people queuing into the park grounds.
A supernova explosion marks the dramatic endpoint of the life of a massive star.
Reaching lengths of over two feet in length and weighing over 3 lbs., the hellbender is the largest amphibian species found in North America and the third largest salamander in the world, coming in behind the Chinese and the Japanese giant salamanders which are truly massive. David Mizejewski: Salamander Eating Habits
In some industries, most notably textiles, massive changes took place in technology and in the organisation of production causing dramatic productivity growth.
One of the last photographs of him shows him in his seventeenth-century timbered cottage, resting on a sofa beside the massive open fire chimney corner.
Others thought the IOC president was ending an era of massive hypocrisy, known as "shamateurism," in which state-sponsored professional athletes from Eastern bloc countries had passed as amateurs for decades. Olympics leader Juan Antonio Samaranch dies at 89
A massive recession requires massive intervention; yet given the scale of things, the intervention that was done appears to be damnably half-a$$ed (which still makes them boundlessly superior to your pitiful attempts at commentary.) Think Progress » Fifty-five years after Brown v. Board, Mississippi county schools ordered to stop school segregation.
HIGHllelujah we have busted Heidi Montag after boyfriend Spencer Pratt innocently uploaded this photo of Heidi's new fabulous "updo" with a massive bong in the background (see image) to his Twitter account. Bumpshack.com
On her back she wore a simple double-edged sword, but her strength hid the massive weight that it really was.
The central "aisle" is devoted to "Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico," which in fact features masterworks from roughly 1400 to 400 BC, ranging from the massive stone portrait heads of rulers ... Peter Clothier: Big Day at LACMA
It contains a massive array of war relics, collected from all round the world down the years, including authentic uniforms modelled by specially-made dummies in authentic uniforms.
A huge workforce, in the region of a million today, handles this massive volume of diamonds.
All along the rupture, the seafloor moved vertically about ten metres, which displaced hundreds of kilometres of overlaying water resulting in a massive tsunami.
Oh, I have a cracker of a photo of the two of us after a massive goodbye cry, when I left Australia 10 years ago.
Morone called the House of Representatives 'passage of the Affordable Health Care for America Act on Nov. 7 "historic," noting that it was the first time in American history that a chamber of Congress has passed health reform on such a massive scale. The Brown Daily Herald RSS
After many years in the doldrums, cinema groups are reporting a massive increase in takings, as crowds flock back to the big screen.
As shown below, the stokehold vents provided entry for the massive airflow demanded by the boiler fires.
The massive forces of the merging clusters accelerated intergalactic gas to great speeds.
She took a massive overdose of sleeping pills.
The tax will require a massive administrative apparatus.
Yesterday, he announced an £8.5m grant to help construct two vessels to carry massive loads such as electricity generators and transformers.
BOX NYC will be holding a "massive social boxing event" tomorrow night which apparently entails poker, models, and, you guessed it smart guys, boxing**, all broadcast on ESPN2 (so let's just get this out there now-only the camera ready should read on). Dealbreaker
My systems have always been what you would call massively paralleled, meaning to a great degree all of the machines are doing the same thing but on different data. The Net's Master Data-miner
Her statement that boys of fifteen should put aside childish things like ball games suggests a massive chip on her shoulder.
Enthusiasts say the extreme sport of kitesurfing, in which a massive wind-powered kite propels a surfer on a small board to defy gravity, can prove more exciting than sex.
Six massive shapes wrapped in cling film rise from the floor: rotund, curvaceous, one shaped like a fennel bulb with an elegant slender neck, another like a Russian doll, yet another plumped and segmented like a swollen gourd. A Potter's Monumental Inspiration
But so did much of what had been packed into that massive trunk.
Even more amazing is the figure for the Portlaoise hinterland which has under-gone a massive 41% rise in the number of people living there.
CityUnslicker said ... massive underbuilding due to planning regs is a key factor. House !
To return coal mining jobs to West Virginia would mean erecting massive barriers to imports. Times, Sunday Times
Moving one of the world's biggest bands around on a tour of this size is a massive operation.
The Costs for crossrail dropped because of design changes, not massive hidings in the budget, building a station a lot closer to the ground will save massive amounts. Woolwich Crossrail overspend to be paid for by local business tax
Meanwhile, powerful United States Army helicopters continued dropping massive concrete blocks to hinder the lava flow.
This increase was exclusively confined to the private sector which recorded a massive 115 percent increase in the number accommodated.
Clive and Elsa are massively proud of the new male and female they have in their tank, whom they are now encouraging to perform a mating ritual-dance known as imprinting and whom they whimsically name Fred and Ginger. Splice
The "massive" rainstorms were brought about by Tropical Cyclone Iggy in the Indian Ocean, south of Bali and the nearby Nusa Tenggara islands, he added. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
Again we notice the ragged effect of massive snow avalanches.
Will only lead to massive disappointment back at the hotel room. The Sun
Astronomers have discovered the largest and oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe - a gigantic, 12-billion-year-old cloud harboring 140 trillion times more water than all of Earth's oceans combined. supermassive black hole called a quasar located 12 billion light-years from Earth. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
I arrived at the field by 6.15 a.m. to behold the magnificent sight of the massive balloon half inflated.
This would ensure that the massive pillaging of the fiscus which is currently taking place would be checked before it jeapordises the transition process. ANC Daily News Briefing
A more exotic model posits the existence of small black holes not far from the supermassive one at the galactic center.
Although smallpox has no known cure or specific treatment, the disease was beaten with a massive, worldwide immunization campaign.
In size there is the difference between the huge _terminalia_ towering up 200 feet high and the tiny little potentilla; between the atlas moth 12 inches in spread and the hardly discernible midges; between the elephant, massive enough to trample its way through the densest forest, and the humble little mouse peeping out of its hole in the ground. The Heart of Nature or, The Quest for Natural Beauty
Massive jaws sliced through his body like a knife through a stick of butter.
The Marc Webb-directed restart is intended to scale the series back from Spider-Man 3’s massive $250+ million price tag to a mere $80 million budget for the 3D 2012 release, starting with the lead it seems. TWILIGHT SAGA NEWS FOR JULY 6:DAVID SLADE, ROBERT PATTINSON, CAST SALARIES, & MORE | Open Society Book Club Discussions and Reviews

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