How To Use Monstrous In A Sentence

The pilot process is a monstrous waste of time and money, stunningly inefficient an you say "amortize" kids? Re-Arranging the Deck Chairs
It's a striking image of traumatic birth from a monstrous, disembodied womb. Times, Sunday Times
As a monstrous assassin closes in and forces them to run, Jessa will have to find another way to discover if Matthias is her greatest ally — or her deadliest enemy. 2009 September « Items of Interest
And that in itself becomes the great terrible mystery of the film - the monstrous enigma that propels the townspeople towards some inexplicable, and therefore, inextricable, oblivion.
Rome created the word that denotes this marvellous and monstrous phenomenon, of history, the enormous city, the deceitful source of life and death -- _urbs_ -- _the city_. Characters and events of Roman History

The killer committed monstrous acts.
It was laden with two bowls of steaming chilli, a monstrous plate of salad, and several side dishes of onion, cheese, sour cream, and cubed bread.
Materialization of both wish and phantasy is monstrous to Victor, because his egoic coherence depends on denying the death-drive that he sublimes as life — especially the life of science, invention, and creativity. Attached to Reading: Mary Shelley's Psychical Reality
With the one exception of its monstrous size, there were the characteristics in plain view; -- the convex body, the large head, the projecting clypeus. The Beetle
The harpy, whose name was derived from the Greek word arpazo, ‘to seize’, was a monstrous female demon of insatiable hunger, known as temptress, seductress and tormenter of victims.
stumps...had uncanny shapes as of monstrous creatures
A tube of pile ointment Tranquilizers of course, buffered aspirins and a bottle of monstrous half-blue, half-yellow capsules. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
All men are prone to believe in such marvels; and it is quite possible, as Niebuhr supposes, that some discoveries of the remains of mammoths and other monstrous forms embedded in the crust of the earth, may have given definiteness and prominency to the Chaldaean notions on this subject. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 1. (of 7): Chaldaea The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
I am not speaking of that kind of tallness, but another; you know what I mean, and there my friend is really monstrous. The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova
She was in no state to argue, nor to mask herself as a horrible monstrous creation.
In the dawn a monstrous wave, well over the height of the mast, appeared from nowhere and completely enveloped the ship. Times, Sunday Times
She would read, she would write, and she would be free from 'unhealthful, uncomfortable ... inconvenient ... fettering, hampering, monstrous skirts'. The Times Literary Supplement
The ocean has long been our repository for ideas of the monstrous and the unknowable.
I formed monstrous shapes in potter's clay, or cut them in trees; I filled my notebooks and the margins of my books with rough sketches, and I spent more than one night crying without reason. Wladyslaw Reymont - Autobiography
As reviewer Ron Charles rightly points out, "the jacket flap tries to dress up the book in the clothing of a coherent story, but the title offers complete truth in advertising: This is indeed a monstrous collection of notes. A Monster's Notes
Rosie's shadow loomed monstrously across the ceiling as she lumbered to her feet with a threatening growl.
Fields and hedgerows would be overrun by monstrous insects and gigantic, unstoppable weeds. Times, Sunday Times
The British are Darwinists, and instead of monstrous machines, they use genetically-engineered amalgamations of animals to create enormous creatures. 2010 March 04 « The BookBanter Blog
SAMANEA SAMAN is a truly noble tropical tree. It has a sturdy, smooth, pale grey trunk mostly divided near its base into a few hefty branches that grow almost horizontally to support its monstrous parasol canopy.
To the broody hen the notion would probably seem monstrous that there should be a creature in the world to whom a nestful of eggs was not the utterly fascinating and precious and never-to-be-too-much-sat-upon object which it is to her. On Scientific Explorations of Human Nature
He has constructed a pandaemonium in an upper story of his museum, in which he has congregated all the images of horror that his fertile fancy could devise; dwarfs that by machinery grow into giants before the eyes of the spectator; imps of ebony with eyes of flame; monstrous reptiles devouring youth and beauty; lakes of fire, and mountains of ice; in short, wax, paint and springs have done wonders. Domestic Manners of the Americans
Life is all moon shine, a monstrous humbug, a grand suck - in.
In addition, part of your amazing sexiness is your monstrous computer knowledge - nothing says "Teh Sexay" like a sysadmin - so shouldn't you be able to clean up that dark, overly-saturated photo with a little Photoshop work? Trick Or Treat Or Bum
That is his God, his Christ, his worship; that he preaches, that he discourseth of, that he labours to propagate, until, by the righteous judgment of God, it comes to pass that such men in all other things wither and die away, all the sap and vigour of their spirits feeding that one monstrous excrescency, which they grow up daily into. The Doctrine of the Saints�� Perseverance Explained and Confirmed
The multinational energy and oil giant made the essence of the term literal by turning its exhibition hall on the Olympic Green into a monstrous Chia pet. Courtney Woo: The Corporate "Green Olympics": Sponsors Use Green Messaging in Their Pavilions
There was screeching, discordant, monstrous music. Times, Sunday Times
From this standpoint, the city's monstrous caricature of futurism is simply shrewd marketing.
twisted into monstrous shapes
It was as if a daimio had been taken out of one of those cuirasses of iron and lacquer, so like the shell of some monstrous crustacean, and thrust into the clothes of a European waiter. The Child of Pleasure
Lots of people would sign up if they could grow a gigantic potato or a monstrous zucchini or a humungous tomato.
It is also asked whether we are to believe that certain monstrous races of men, spoken of in secular history, have sprung from Noah's sons, or rather, I should say, from that one man from whom they themselves were descended. September 2nd, 2009
Dolly is about five times the size of a dog, and she's monstrously fast and strong.
Attacked by a monstrous little creature called a "delver", Cara is rescued by a shambling, manlike beast called "the Dimblethum. SFFaudio
Spielberg's films have the advantage of comparison, between live actors, who simulate terror, and monstrous reptiles that look so real you hold your breath when close to them.
Nor have they any legal commitment to managing the monstrous forests they created for their absentee landlords.
Broadcast television is available only to monstrous corporate powers.
He has done me a great service, and I be under monstrous obligations to him, but he be, nathless, the Outlaw of Torn and I the daughter of an earl and a king's sister.
Before their imaginations had fully wakened out of the primeval dream, the cosmogonies and theogonies, gross and monstrous, of their national infancy, they were asked to have an opinion about the classical mythology, as represented by the Latin poets; they were made acquainted with the miracles of the lives of saints. Epic and Romance Essays on Medieval Literature
Hong Kong sweltered yesterday in its hottest day so far this year with the mercury reaching a monstrous 37 degrees in the western New Territories and 34 degrees in urban areas.
He was wrapped in a kind of capot of green bays, lined with wolf-skin, had a pair of monstrous boots, quilted on the inside with cotton, was almost covered with dirt, and rode a mule so low that his long legs hung dangling within six inches of the ground. Travels through France and Italy
Many other servants came in to strip the bed and put new sheets and comforter on her monstrous bed.
The stranger was so monstrous in size that he was extremely terrified and stunned.
Monstrous Ophidia are mentioned in sober history, e.g. that which delayed the army of Regulus. Arabian nights. English
How dare anyone blame Britain's security services for this monstrous evil? The Sun
It was inevitable that for each their rival should grow to monstrous scale and, deprived of humanity, become a cipher for predatory threat. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
If this monstrous juggernaut of metal and circuitry wasn't a titan, he didn't know what was.
Huge elephantine forms, the mastodon, the hippopotamus, the tapir, antelopes of monstrous size, the megatherium, and the myledon — all, for the moment, in juxtaposition. A Pair of Blue Eyes
He was ugly and monstrously fat.
Jesus Christ therefore, by implication, liberates the African Christian from disease, human and natural disasters, from tribalism, racism and any monstrous and inhuman political domination.
After the most advanced and modern nations deteriorated so far so as to do the most monstrous thing of all, a clear trend indicating the assurgency of religion and the decline of academia can be seen. RSSMicro Search - Top News on RSS Feeds
Ornamental umbels are represented by the delicately virginal Queen Anne's lace, which can grow to monstrous proportions if supported among other plants in the flower border and makes a surprisingly good cut flower.
There can be few among today's absintheurs whose skills are on a par with this dwarfish playwright, author of Ubu Roi and creator of the monstrous stage figure Pere Ubu.
And there was afterwards writ a proper and careful treatise, and did set out that there did be ruptures of the Æther, the which did constitute doorways, as those more fanciful ones did name them; and through these shatterings, which might be likened unto openings -- there being no better word to their naming -- there did come into this Particular Condition Of Life, those Monstrous Forces Of Evil, that did dominate the Night, and which many did hold surely to have been given this improper entrance through the foolish and unwise wisdom of those olden men of learning, that did meddle overfar with matters that did reach in the end beyond their understanding. The Night Land: Chapter 7
If you've ever been inside a Judaica store, you know from which I speak -- monstrous menorahs, krass kiddish cups and flashy door mezuzahs with motion detectors. Rich Siegel: Are Jew Kidding?
Ingratitude is monstrous, and for the multitude to be ingrateful, were to make a monster of the multitude: of the which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members. The Tragedy of Coriolanus
At 12.59 am, a massive deep sea quake struck just off the coast of Indonesia, sparking a tidal wave of monstrous proportions.
Misha darted away into the courtyard, and into the carriage, waved his cap over his head, hallooed, — the monstrous coachman leered at him over his beard, the greys dashed off, and all vanished! A Desperate Character
Every lady should read _A Simpleton_, and learn something of the monstrous wrong she inflicts upon herself by trying to compass an artificially-produced "middle sae jimp. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science
The humans and elves fight against the monstrous orcs and ogres while the third group, called the Zerg, seek to destroy both of them.
Nor are they simply satirical swipes at the monstrous power of the royal whim. The Times Literary Supplement
White beaches, standing stones, flowers on the machair, Gaelic psalm-singing (which sounds like no other church music in Europe - a Chinese or Mongolian feel to it) and monstrous alcohol consumption on a Saturday night (an Englishman is best advised to avoid Stornoway dockside bars) followed by a real Sabbath - no shops, taxis, bars - you go for a walk or go to church. Archive 2005-06-26
This was undeniably true; the monstrous orderly was lying on his face in the corner, breathing in ragged, stertorous snores. Sick Cycle Carousel
For I have lived long enough to learn that the monstrous and outlandish figure, the _magot chinois_ whom I believed to be but a memorial of our forefathers 'mental aberration, that grotesque _potiche_, works! Notes on Life and Letters
Perhaps that is why this holier-than-thou hoochie seeks the psychic matchmaking advice of a monstrous drag queen.
Ah! I like that a monstrous deal better than keeping watch for a vampyre, which is a sort of job that don't at all suit such a constitution as mine, do you see? Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 3
I have been toppled by my own monstrous solipsism, hoodwinked by the belief that everything revolves around me. LOVE YOU MADLY
Can you savour the South American experience without clocking up monstrous mileage?
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
HOW has the monstrous scandal of unpaid fines been allowed to fester this long? The Sun
It will show the extent of people's anger about these monstrous turbines.
“Yes,” said the Rector, quietly; and he crossed one gaitered leg over the other, and, with fingers interlaced, twiddled his thumbs, as he eyed the monstrous sectary under his orthodox old brows with a stern inquisitiveness. Uncle Silas
Something lived in that house, thought the oldest kids in the neighborhood, something dark, evil, monstrous.
Beyond the port, the monstrous gaseous globe of Goldin XI precessed in stately, indifferent silence. Flinx's Folly
We are overall reminded of how brutal, vile and monstrous the Nazi regime truly was and why we had to completely destroy them in order to prevent any chance of their coming back.
The media have documented a string of monstrous cases in which prosthetic breasts have been exposed and urostomy bags worn by bladder-cancer patients have been disconnected, with humiliating consequences. The TSA Is Keeping the Skies Safe
Overhead them was a huge, monstrous and extremely ugly bird drooling over them.
The neat box hedges reached a monstrous size, and many of the buildings and terraces subsided. Times, Sunday Times
For evil purposes are, perchance, due to the imperfection of human nature; that it should be possible for scoundrels to carry out their worst schemes against the innocent, while God beholdeth, is verily monstrous. Consolation of Philosophy
It can ride monstrous riffs with effortless grace and style. The Sun
The land question should have a distinct recognition as a true reform issue, and while committal to the policy signified by the term single tax, in its entirety, should be avoided, land speculation and monopoly should be condemned as a monstrous evil, and against that evil should be directed such special taxation of land values as will check and ultimately destroy it, without too rudely disturbing existing values. The Arena Volume 4, No. 24, November, 1891
In any event, the descriptivist POV is that the entirety of the language has resulted from monstrous bastardizations, and that this process continues all around us. Prescriptivists amaze me (to) no end « Motivated Grammar
His relationship with Briseis, who resists and then falls in love with him, exposes him to the absurdity and indefensibility of his position, as the glory-seeking pawn of a monstrous expedition.
Wright, who is best known for his low Prairie-style buildings, had a complicated relationship with tall buildings, calling one an “incongruous mantrap of monstrous dimensions.” Little Skyscraper on the Prairie
The villains of his plays know that they have something monstrous within them and they strain to give birth to it. The Times Literary Supplement
Let's not forget that the perpetrator of this monstrous crime remains at large. Times, Sunday Times
It was denounced by one outraged commentator as ‘a monstrous departure from the dignity and propriety of journalism’.
These characters are monstrous studies in sybaritic excess.
With his ear against the moist earth, Jason heard a monstrous rumble and the ground shook hundreds of times more violently than it would have in an earthquake.
She looked at one of the frogs, a big homely one with a gigantic mouth and monstrous warts.
But I'm still troubled by the fact that they could even consider doing something so monstrous.
Across one large wall, a purplish strand of smoke pulsated and contracted, cohering into a monstrous head.
He has wires and tubes attached to his body, huge scars across his shaven head, monstrous bedsores. Times, Sunday Times
Monstrous storms descend from the Artic circle, blanketing Europe in snow, sending a tidal surge across the US east coast, and flattening the west.
Some are like horses, others like monstrous turtles, many resemble wicked snakes, and the list continues.
It is a monstrous eyesore quite out of keeping with the surrounding area.
Then they told him that somewhere, a long way off, there dwelt three dreadful sisters, monstrous ogrish women, with golden wings and claws of brass, and with serpents growing on their heads instead of hair. The Blue Fairy Book
The next moment a hideous, grinding speech, as of some monstrous machine running without oil, burst from the big telescreen at the end of the room.
For I have lived long enough to learn that the monstrous and outlandish figure, the _magot chinois_ whom I believed to be but a memorial of our forefathers 'mental aberration, that grotesque _potiche_, works! Notes on Life and Letters
It didn't matter to her that Timothy Gedge intended to enact monstrous scenes in a rectory garden.
They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.
She bids her worshipper travel down each red and yellow ray, bathe in its hues, and return to her "jewelled," but not smirched; and each time he returns, not jewelled, but smirched; always to appear monstrous in her sight; always to be dismissed with the same sad smile: so pitying that it promises love, so fixed that it bars its possibility. A Handbook to the Works of Browning (6th ed.)
Through binoculars they're visible at all points of the compass; gawky, fragile, birdlike skeletons of metal hauling skywards monstrous slabs of concrete and steel.
Nobody wants to come home to an ugly building, or worse, live opposite a monstrous, modern carbuncle and it seems builders and developers are at long last beginning to realise this.
Fire belched from dragon maws; huge clubs thudded to the earth with monstrous regularity, each blow signifying another walker crushed. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
The monstrous behemoth of white had come out of nowhere as well, throwing Josh off track.
His crouch was a gathering together, an assembling of all the parts of him under the rule of the spirit of him, for the spring upward to meet in mid career this monstrous, menacing thing. Jerry of the Islands
A monstrous sea creature mentioned in the Old Testament.
It was inevitable that for each their rival should grow to monstrous scale and, deprived of humanity, become a cipher for predatory threat. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
Great West Wind Drift, setting squarely into the teeth of the easterly gale, kicked up a tideway sea that was monstrous. CHAPTER XL
They deem insignificant sins that the church considered monstrous only a few generations ago.
It can ride monstrous riffs with effortless grace and style. The Sun
At the terminuses of these drainages, thousands of icebergs - many of monstrous size - are formed every year.
The proposals - which were widely condemned as monstrously intrusive and constituting a gross infringement of privacy and liberty - have been withdrawn for further consultation.
I guess this gives me a shoddy excuse to embark on a weeklong bender of hard drinking, dire self-examination and monstrous self-pity.
Jim Hall believed that the judge knew all about it and was hand in glove with the police in the perpetration of the monstrous injustice. The Sleeping Wolf
We've seen some pretty middling horrible things already, and if these two men of ours call the frightful things we have seen normal, and are planning on deliberately hunting up things that even they will consider monstrous, you and I most certainly shall stay at home! Skylark Three
Assyria, the classic mythologies of graceful Greece and iron Rome, the monstrous shasters of thine Indian Pundits, or the more chaotic clouds of thy German philosophies -- in none of them wilt thou ever find this divine thought, _an end of destructions -- a perpetual end_. Fables of Infidelity and Facts of Faith Being an Examination of the Evidences of Infidelity
She was dancing with her husband -- a pitiful spectacle, for the lawyer must be pushed through the dance as he were a doll, with monstrous ungracefulness, and no sense of the time of the music, his thin legs quarrelling with each other, his neighbours all confused by his inexpert gyrations, and yet himself with a smirk of satisfaction on his sweating countenance. Doom Castle
Charlie's dad is an immense, monstrous presence at the centre of the film.
The boats battled hazards that included monstrous waves, icebergs, and storms - even waterspouts with winds of up to 60 knots.
The creatures included a monstrous blue unicorn with a beard like a goat and tailless, but talented, beavers that walked on their hind legs, lived in huts and built campfires. Marc Hartzman: A Touch of Knowledge: The Man-Bats on the Moon
The contribution that these charities have made in helping form the monstrous view that Israel is a demonic aggressor rather than the historic victim of exterminatory aggression – a viewpoint which has unleashed the current wave of Jew-hatred in Britain and the west – cannot be exaggerated. The ugly face of bigoted Britain
A beautiful dive at 20m, I saw huge coral formations and monstrous sea fans.
The villains of his plays know that they have something monstrous within them and they strain to give birth to it. The Times Literary Supplement
This has been a race of extremes where crashes challenged us in the first week, infernal heat in the second and monstrous mountains in the third. Times, Sunday Times
Monstrous Ophidia are mentioned in sober history, e.g. that which delayed the army of The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
In the next two decades, there will take place a total discrediting of these monstrous blights on the economic stability and prosperity of our civilization.
It was as if he walked in a new and monstrously populous jungle and was unacquainted with its ways and denizens. CHAPTER XXV
Any country that would even seriously consider such a monstrous act certainly isn't going to be shown mercy when war is brought to its civilian population.
For another such work, Chu carved the head of a fanged, monstrous beast and mounted it on a chintzy quilt with little flowers.
The illustrations show monstrous beasts with bodies like bears and heads like tigers.
It is natural for a wolf to worry a lamb, but when a lamb worries another lamb then it is a monstrous business.
The ravaging giant of Eirena's territory finds counterparts in other figures depicted as monstrous, cruel, degenerate, and corrupt.
But the main point is, if you are right, if God really is the petty, narrow-minded, bigoted, capricious, cruel deity that you portray, then eternity with such a monstrous creature would be worse than any "Hell" your terror-thralled brain can imagine. Dallas Methodist bishop to local pastor: Gay is not exactly OK | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com
"Never underestimate that monstrous regiment of women ", I said.
On it, someone has daubed the ineludible, monstrous question: Why do I do this every day? The currents of dread
Possibly his first little wolfish howl (for it would be monstrous to think that he or even Remus condescended to a _vagitus_ or cry such as a young tailor or rat-catcher might emit) may have symphonized with the ear-shattering trumpet that proclaimed the inauguration of the first The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2
You need look no further than "ET - The Extra-Terrestrial" to see an example of how the frightening prospect of the alien from outer space -- depicted as monstrous in a series of movies from the 1950s through the 1980s -- had now been dealt with far more satisfyingly, by being infantilized. Harry Shearer: Don't Demonize Political Opponents, Infantilize Them
Not only had night fallen, but the mist from the marsh had grown heavy, so that the village looked to him like swarm of monstrous fireflies. Conan Fan Fiction!
I don't know how I'd react if I encountered something as monstrous as a Golem, but I doubt that I'd resort to verbal pyrotechnics.
Any suggestion that I accepted bribes would be a monstrous slur.
It was too monstrous, too unnatural an act. BLOOD AGAINST THE SNOWS: The Tragic Story of Nepal's Royal Dynasty
It's absolutely monstrous to pay men more than women for the same job.
The screen went dark as a monstrous tongue licked the lens, then a hand swiped it several times.
Leylandii trees, those avaricious and monstrous evergreens, have grown another yard, since I last wrote about them, and controlling legislation is still awaited.
The idol was, and is, annually dragged forth in procession on a monstrous car, and as masses of excited pilgrims crowded round to drag or accompany it, accidents occurred.
But his mind rejected the idea that his dault was a personal coward, as something which was monstrous and unnatural. The Fair Maid of Perth
You know the classic horror scene of a victim being chased by something monstrous through a forest? Times, Sunday Times
Soil, trees and fauna accrete to the zaratan, the monstrous whalelike creatures, which are being poachedfor bones and skin, killing off a whole ecosystem. Movie Review: Avatar and a Comparison II « Colleen Anderson
Fran, in particular, is a monstrous delight; watching her being shorn of her lousy dreadlocks was laugh-out-loud schadenfreude television.
They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.
I was backing up as the monstrous serpent advanced on me.
Let's not forget that the perpetrator of this monstrous crime remains at large. Times, Sunday Times
It was a strange and frightful spectacle — the small, bunk-lined space, the floor and walls leaping and lurching, the dim light, the swaying shadows lengthening and fore-shortening monstrously, the thick air heavy with smoke and the smell of bodies and iodoform, and the inflamed faces of the men — half-men, I should call them. Chapter 26
It is no doubt of volcanic origin, belched out of the bowels, and on to the surface, of the earth, by the sulphurous upheavings of subterraneous and subaqueous fires, and cooled and solidified into monstrous masses by the gelid currents of the deepmost waves of the most ancient of former oceans. Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated,
He was a Caliban, a monstrous phantom, fettered to him for untold ages, the penalty of some forgotten crime. In a Far Country
This monstrous crime was not carried out in the name of a religion which claims to be peaceful but whose fanatics boast: 'You love life. The Sun
It can ride monstrous riffs with effortless grace and style. The Sun
It is something monstrous, the fountainhead of violence.
In nineteenth-century France several freak shows were banned for fear that the shocking spectacles would cause women to bear monstrous children.
Prime Minister John Howard says the comments are absurd and monstrous.
A lot of it's just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness.
At the heart of the beast is a 686cc fuel-injected engine that makes monstrous torque from idle, through the mid-range, and right up to the 9,000 rpm redline. Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide
Having befriended the monstrous Lelio, she agrees to rescue him from the marital clutches of a middle-aged countess by wooing the lady herself.
Black Pat successfully embodies the crushing physical weight of depressive illness, and the crude banality of his torments illuminate its brutal power to strip away joy; but, for all his foul tongue and fouler breath, the monstrous dog fails to penetrate the darker psychological landscape of depression, so that the novel never packs quite the punch that it promises. Mr Chartwell by Rebecca Hunt – review
Rather than decide to actually cover this story of monstrous proportions, they resorted instead to bogus and pathetic bouts of existential soul-searching.
She may have had a beautiful, attractive body but once the fan went down, you would see a horrible, gruesome, monstrous, ugly face.
She saw them burning buildings, with flaming torches in their hands and astride their monstrous steed.
His oily, insinuating tones, his greasy smile and his monstrous self-conceit grated on my nerves till sometimes I was all in a tremble. Chapter 6
Chinamen (cited by Mr Candidate Mulligan) in consequence of defective reunion of the maxillary knobs along the medial line so that (as he said) one ear could hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner of delivery called by the Brandenburghers STURZGEBURT, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents — in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations. Ulysses
The ogre was the most monstrous thing the Solamnic warrior had ever come across. The Reign of Istar
Monstrous levels of heat that had me doing an air suck in short ored. The Hot Zone Online
‘Never underestimate that monstrous regiment of women’, I said.
It's a striking image of traumatic birth from a monstrous, disembodied womb. Times, Sunday Times
Indeed her creatures appear monstrous but cuddlesome. Spread ArtCulture: Patricia Piccinini's World of Creatures Great & Small
So far as I knew anything about bonds of union, there wasn't one that could have tackled itself to us two, except this long, slippery arm of the Water-devil, with one end in the monstrous flob at the bottom, and the other fast to our ship. The Rudder Grangers Abroad and Other Stories
For every successful human replicant there is likely to be a clutch of monstrous failures.
Splithog Pauper, in disguise (CR classified, SitS p. 66) 1 goblin snake (CR1, Pathfinder #1) 1d4 Small monstrous centipedes (CR 1, MM p. 276) Life in the Wide World – Random Encounters « Geek Related
Quoting from HG Wells' science fiction classic The War of the Worlds, the MP said high-tech windfarms were ‘monstrous tripods, striding over young pine trees, and smashing them aside’.
Grendel lives, with his monstrous mother, at the bottom of a foul lake, which a variety of other monsters inhabit.
Interrupted by an audible gasp of shock from a spinster-appearing female sunning herself hard by and angularly in the sand in a swimming suit monstrously unbeautiful, Lee Barton was aware of an involuntary and almost perceptible stiffening on the part of his wife. THE KANAKA SURF
In the dawn a monstrous wave, well over the height of the mast, appeared from nowhere and completely enveloped the ship. Times, Sunday Times
The destruction of someone's home is a huge and monstrous punishment - was their ‘crime’ really that bad?
A good many minor people -- hotel baggagemen, clerks, etc., tram conductors, policemen and the like -- will seem to you to be monstrously rude and unobliging. Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile
We would think it monstrous for a murderer or other criminal to be acquitted because public opinion polls showed that most people, perhaps unversed in the intricacies of criminal justice, thought he should be acquitted.
Similarly, Milizia could see in Bernini's Apollo and Daphne only a monstrous parody of the Apollo Belvedere, and he utterly condemned the Saint Bibiana.
As it is, monstrous ingratitude is the societally approved stance towards the U.S. — understandable given the prevalence of grandmothers who serviced G. I.s, but still ... One Korea?
A lot of it is just effrontery, sheer brazen nerve, and a sort of monstrous cockiness.
We see this even in so trifling a fact as that the same poison often similarly affects plants and animals; or that the poison secreted by the gallfly produces monstrous growths on the wild rose or oak-tree. XV. Recapitulation and Conclusion
Meanwhile the monstrous and unmanageable dreams about Sethe found release in the concentration Denver began to fix on the baby ghost.
It's absolutely monstrous to pay men more than women for the same job.
Because we do not accept their monstrous allegations, they say that we go on living in the hebdomad [the lower regions], as if we could not lift our minds to the things on high, nor understand the things that are above. The Gnostic shuffle ...
It's monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room.
'What a monstrous spectre is this man, this disease of the agglutinated dust, lifting alternate feet or lying drugged with slumber; killing, feeding, growing, bringing forth small copies of himself; grown up with hair like grass, fitted with eyes that glitter in his face; a thing to set children screaming. CHAPTER 21
After a good night's rest, the couple resume their journey appearing more refreshed and less monstrous.

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