How To Use Monstrosity In A Sentence
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I've just spent three nights in such a monstrosity, holed up in a room only marginally larger than a shoebox.
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At any rate, as much as I loath the idea of lugging this monstrosity over there again, it looks like I might have to arrange another appointment and take it back.
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If we take back even one house this November we will be able to conduct hearings where the architects of this monstrosity will be required to defend their malfeasance, or nonfeasance, before the dreaded cameras of C-Span.
Yes Nancy, apparently we did have to pass the bill to learn what’s in it
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The claws on the monstrosity jutted out and curved like a dozen scimitars.
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Here a burrito is a small flour tortilla folded in half over a spoon of filling, for maybe 3 pesos, compared to the $8 US for the Chevy's monstrosity.
A week in Los Angeles
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The saguaro is a monstrosity in fact as well as in appearance, -- a product of miscegenation between plant and animal, probably depending for its form of life history, if not for its very existence, on its commensals." [
Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
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Nazism was a diabolical monstrosity and it was fitting not only to commemorate its demise, but also to celebrate the millions who paid the highest sacrifice.
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The film is a brutal, blood-soaked plea for compassion and understanding in the face of monstrosity.
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On the three days I work in the city, I have a short walk from the concrete monstrosity where I park my car to the office.
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From here we progress northwards, meeting the outskirts of Milton Keynes the following day - more tidy gardens and open parklands than monstrosity - and have our first pub lunch at the appropriately named Barge Inn.
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The only door in the room was an ancient thick oak monstrosity with a rusty wrought iron latch, matching hasps and a key stuck in the lock.
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And yet the building is a monstrosity, a gaping hole in the middle of town, hostile to the needs of its neighbors and inhabitants alike.
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I think it is an absolute disgrace that the tube station is being redeveloped into that monstrosity of a building.
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A choir of ventriloquistic monstrosity, from Hungary.
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And their first move should be to halt the building of new power lines, most notably the giant monstrosity about to scar the Yorkshire countryside.
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The Gothic palace is a stark monstrosity that is in striking contrast to the delicately chiselled and embellished Palacio Nazaries, the Moorish royal palace.
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Elsewhere I have discussed the importance and volatility of the figure of the body in aesthetic discourse (see Redfield, ch. 2); for present purposes it will suffice to note the emphatically aesthetic vocabulary with which Victor seeks to "delineate" his creature’s monstrosity.
_Frankenstein_'s Cinematic Dream
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The police station is going to be demolished and from what I have seen of the plans, a monstrosity of a building is going to be erected in a conservation area.
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Unfortunately, in its place I found a deformed monstrosity.
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Might Lou Reed's monstrosity of non-stop feedback noise, Metal Machine Music, be a good record to help people shake their sillies out and wiggle their waggles away?
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Olsen electrical. summand streamlined, voiding sinusoids equate, monstrosity Brian,
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I would rather take my chances fighting an invasion of foreigners than participate in that evil monstrosity.
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I stared in horror at the monstrosity in my arms.
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Achilles 'shield does not paralyze its beholders with a frightful monstrosity, but overawes them with its impression of divine artifice, an emblem of the irresistible destiny of its bearer.
Ekphrasis and the Other
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He's probably spent his life languishing in this moated monstrosity.
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Ordinarily lame and mundane places like rotary clubs transform into shanties of shock and mazes of monstrosity.
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It was suggested, by the French surgeon Jean Riolan and the Italian naturalist Ulysses Aldrovandi, that the new teratological science claimed to understand monstrosity exclusively in terms of physical deformity.
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If you've ever seen a more terrifying beard than this, then you are most certainly a liar, because there is no beard more frightening than this hellish monstrosity.
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They had used their newly-designed, precise instruments of torture to flay away skin, then the drugs to rebuild it into this monstrosity, this hideous pattern of nerveless layers.
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He was a man and a monstrosity, as fearful a thing of fear as ever gibbered in the visions of a maddened brain.
The Sleeping Wolf
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It obstructed the view into the city centre, and became an eyesore and a monstrosity that for the past several years has been closed and obsolete.
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The palace is a monstrosity.
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In most cases of monstrosity by excess, however, it is needful to remove the superfluous parts, in which case the general principles employed for embryotomy must be followed.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse
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There was a meeting of the "Comite de Tierras Urbanas", some administrative monstrosity who is trying to treat urban lands as if they were Agricultural AND Urban lands, in the spirit of the most demagogical of all Chavez programs, the artificially recreated version of "Los Sin Tierras", the landless.
Great moments in populism
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Better to be rejected for THE job than ejected from a sidemount monstrosity ...
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“I resist it to-day, and always,” he declared, adding, “I say, sir, that according to my conscientious convictions, we are now fixing upon the constitution of the United States and upon our form of government a monstrosity—a disfiguration—an enormity.”
A Country of Vast Designs
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Let it be shown what this monstrous notion really meant, what herds of strange creatures and shoals even of vermin it would permit in England; and would England ratify the monstrosity, or the Independency consociated with it, even for twenty Cromwells, or ten Marston Moors?
The Life of John Milton
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For over 30 years, a doubledecker freeway ran through the Hayes Valley neighborhood like a festering wound, but the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake damaged the structure sufficiently that it was torn down by Caltrans, and committed neighborhood activists managed to keep the monstrosity from being resurrected.
Adaptations 2: Patricia's Green
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Not much to cheer about then as I parked my car in a multi-storey monstrosity.
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It will essentially be a concrete monstrosity with street lights on it.
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It is dishonest, and worse, to accuse this honorable man of the monstrosity.
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You'll be made to feel an ingénue if you choose to eat a known fish (such as delicious Hake) over some previously unclassified deep sea monstrosity.
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ONe of my biggest fears was the ecto 1 being like a hummer or an escalade and that all the monsters would be some CGI monstrosity.
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The Butcher is a monstrosity feared by enemies and allies alike.
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Every now and then, I come across a film that is so crashingly awful that I find myself numb from shock when considering that seemingly intelligent adults spent their time and energy (not to mention someone elseâs money) to create a monstrosity.
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And all of this talk of dis-establishing the unwieldy and unworkable and agglomerated-monstrosity 'nations' (and Economy) as over-extended as 'the 48 States,' is what is contained and meant in the 1960s bumpersticker: Think globally, Act locally. by meremark (1 articles, 3 quicklinks, 30 diaries, 589 comments [29 recommended, 0 rejected]) on Tuesday, Jan 20, 2009 at 1: 58: 24 AM
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Although I don't remember the food I do remember the cafe being knocked down to make way for the concrete monstrosity that is the council offices.
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And also there is a great love affair, I suppose, with ideas of monstrosity.
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She has said it's a disgrace that young couples who saved and borrowed for their dream home should end up with a monstrosity virtually in their back gardens.
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The letters echoes a much held view: because in the 1960s a monstrosity was put up at 9 High Street we should never, ever build anything again.
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Reagan's greatness lies in that he clearly saw this monstrosity for what it was and relentlessly worked to defeat it.
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It is still a disparate monstrosity, full of solitudes & barrens & wilds.
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Nazism was a diabolical monstrosity and it was fitting not only to commemorate its demise, but also to celebrate the millions who paid the highest sacrifice.
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His home, of which he was very proud, was a gray architectural monstrosity designed to look like a medieval castle, inside acres of pecan and live oak trees, all of it in an unzoned area that mixed pipeyards and welding shops with thoroughbred horse barns and red-clay tennis courts.
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Its replacement is yet another brick, glass and steel monstrosity, alongside so many new buildings of similar unmemorable and offensive design, in particular the hideous Leisure Exchange.
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Famine had mutated into an invincible monstrosity that was ravaging more than half of Africa's children.
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After a contest of strenght between the hooked subject and myself, me being the victor, a deckhand "gaffed" the monstrosity on my line (aka: fucking hooked it with a long poll) and hauled it aboard.
Ronin622 Diary Entry
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I observed to - day a curious monstrosity of an Umbelliferous plant, in which the rays of the umbellules are soldered together; forming an involucre round the immersed central solitary female, the male flowers forming the extreme teeth of the involucre.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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I'm amazed by the monstrosity of architecture, the eradication of beautiful buildings.
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Clark sez, The MPAA monstrosity is an activity patch or temporary insignia - these denote that a scout has participated in a special event or activity; a couple of common examples of activity patches are those issued to scouts who have attended a weekend camporee or a week at summer camp.
Boing Boing
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Rejecting the notion that freaks were sports of nature, Saint - Hilaire argued that teratology (the medical study of congenital monstrosity) should link normal and abnormal development.
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There is, also, a turnspit, with short and crooked legs, closely resembling the existing variety; but this kind of monstrosity is so common with various animals, as with the ancon sheep, and even, according to Rengger, with jaguars in
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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It will seem equally monstrous to the future generation, much more than it would seem to our own generation, because people often become used to seeing monstruous things without noticing their monstrosity.
CEREMONY MARKING THE CENTENNIAL OF CUBA'S STRUGG
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There has been no consultation about this, and the proposed mast is an absolute monstrosity.
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It had warped me into a suffocating, totalizing essence, pinned me with the girders of weakness, monstrosity, and leprosy that supported their dichotomous construction of Homosexual.
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Being maid of honour is a pretty cool job really, and my taffeta monstrosity got lots of polite compliments.
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The awful intelligence came to me that Harwell must have loved that sentimental Victorian monstrosity.
WHISTLER IN THE DARK
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A planned telephone mast has been denounced as a monstrosity by people in Wootton Bassett.
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Outrage at the monstrosity of his regime is unavoidable.
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The reptilian monstrosity shook off the vines with total ease, body curled up beneath the neck, and tail stretched out behind it, rattling noisily.
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I have the misfortune to live between a blinding, yellow concrete monstrosity on one side and an unkempt, dirty, semi-paved yard on the other.
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Robert Heinlein characterized revolution as “a freak, a mutant, a monstrosity, its conditions never to be repeated and its operations carried out by amateurs and individuals.”
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The monstrosity had been nicknamed "Bes," after the monstrous dwarf god of
The Hawk of Egypt
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We are losing faith especially when we see a monstrosity of a building going up at the corner of Coronation Street and Mucurapo Road, which we understand is an illegal structure.
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`What a monstrosity ," observes Mr Onions, peering up at the great grey turrets.
SPLITTING
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To judge by the madness and diseasedness both of itself, and of the soil and element it is in, one might expect the rapidity and monstrosity would be extreme.
The French Revolution
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I am a monstrosity, a selfish little girl who selected her own life instead of those that gave her life and those who meant almost everything to her.
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I fancy the poor dog seems to feel the monstrosity of the performance, and, in sheer shame for his master, forgivingly tries to assume it is PLAY; and I have seen a little "colley" running along, barking, and endeavoring to leap and gambol in the shafts, before a load that any one out of this locality would have thought the direst cruelty.
The Twins of Table Mountain
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they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity
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The thought of being motivated to continue pursuing and perfecting your craft by continuing to make new stuffs for our relentlessly burgeoning population of upright apes is simply a monstrosity.
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The project ran into huge opposition from a committee, who were worried the building would be an ugly monstrosity, while also harbouring concerns about traffic.
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She is a hideous monstrosity and a small minded, chippy teenage rebel and I hope your fine lady wife forces you to sleep on the sofa for at least a week.
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The residents of the area enjoy a peaceful neighbourhood, this stadium would be a monstrosity.
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I began circling the black monstrosity, barely skimming my hand on the surface.
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You mean to say someone scooped this from off the floor of the labs and said, yes, this blue one here, let's see what sort of monstrosity it will blossom into if brought to term?
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It was possibly the most atrocious monstrosity every pulled off on American soil.
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The building is an architectural monstrosity.
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The 5-foot-11, 180-pound western Pennsylvania chef is the first person to eat a monstrosity called the Beer Barrel Belly Bruiser: a 15-pound burger with toppings and a bun that brought the total weight to 20.2 pounds.
Pennsylvania Man Chews Through Belly-Busting, 15-lb. Burger | Disinformation
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No bloated monstrosity had come creeping toward his house, of course not.
LOST BOY LOST GIRL
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Cosentino 3.57 mentions a case of the absence of liquor amnii associated with a fetal monstrosity.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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We pledge to ensure that such a monstrosity does not ever happen again.
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Everyone knows of the disasters unregulated commercial logging is causing in the world's tropical forests, disasters that are helped along by the frightening efficiency of machines like this monstrosity.
Kill Some Trees On Earth Day
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Of course, it never occurred to the landlord he was in actual fact selling the drinks to this drunken monstrosity.
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‘Not there,’ she groaned, grabbing my forearm and dragging me away from the pink pouf monstrosity that hung in the store window.
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And it is unlikely that anything could be done to make the monstrosity any less ugly - not even cladding it and turning it into flats, as was apparently once considered.
