How To Use Prodigiously In A Sentence
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His second ball, to Strauss, projected from round the wicket to the left-hander, turned prodigiously from out of the rough and, as the batsman padded up, spun across and behind him and pegged back his leg stump.
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Sedley, who admired his own legs prodigiously, and always wore this ornamental chaussure, was extremely pleased at this remark, though he drew his legs under his chair as it was made.
Vanity Fair
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He was a prodigiously gifted artist.
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How Roberts, a prodigiously gifted schoolboy, ended up pursuing a life of crime is a book in itself.
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And disregarding my blushes and protests, he held up the watchet blue frock against me, and it was near fitting me but for my breadth, -- the skirts being prodigiously long.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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We see this exemplified in England, where the common tumbler, which is valued only for its flight, does not differ much from its parent-form, the Eastern tumbler; whereas the short-faced tumbler has been prodigiously modified, from being valued, not for its flight, but for other qualities.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
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He was also the most prodigiously gifted child she had ever encountered.
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For anyone who doesn't know the work of this prodigiously talented jazz pianist, he made one piano sound like three.
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Often, at pedagogy conferences, we witness prodigiously talented fourteen-year-olds taking a master lesson in huge pieces like Prokofiev sonatas or Chopin scherzos.
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It doesn't allow him to prodigiously swing the ball but it allows him to land the ball on the seam time and time again.
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It has always seemed to me, Madam, that that same jaw-bone must have been either prodigiously strong and tough, or else the Philistine crania must have been of very chartaceous texture.
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Ministers maintain that backbenchers need not concern themselves with such prodigiously boring work.
Times, Sunday Times
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She had admired and esteemed Mr. Faulkland prodigiously; her vexation was the greater, in finding her expectations disappointed; and could I have been so unjust to the pretensions of another, or so indelicate in regard to myself, as to have overlooked Mr. Faulkland's fault, I knew my mother would be inflexible.
Memoirs of Miss Sidney Bidulph
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Madame de Stael wrote prodigiously throughout the years of political turmoil, and none of her works, even those she tried to rid of overt political content, endeared her to the authorities of the moment.
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For anyone who doesn't know the work of this prodigiously talented jazz pianist, he made one piano sound like three.
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Ministers maintain that backbenchers need not concern themselves with such prodigiously boring work.
Times, Sunday Times
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The ball will swing for most of the innings, in fact prodigiously in the first few overs.
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Some barbarians seize this dog, who so prodigiously excels man in friendship, they nail him to a table and dissect him living to show the mesenteric veins.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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It has always seemed to me, Madam, that that same jaw-bone must have been either prodigiously strong and tough, or else the Philistine crania must have been of very chartaceous texture.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866
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They were not temperate as Chinagos were temperate; they were gluttons, eating prodigiously and drinking more prodigiously.
THE CHINAGO
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League and Covenant led him a prodigiously dull life and made him very weary with long sermons and grim Sundays, the Parliament called the redoubtable Oliver home to knock the Scottish men on the head for setting up that Prince.
A Child's History of England
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the prices of farms rose prodigiously
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She is a prodigiously talented pianist.
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He was a prodigiously gifted artist.
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But the hard irreducible fact remains that one and only one combination of our prodigiously inventive sexual imagining is actually and naturally fruitful — as in, forms a self-replicating society that will perdure to need the law you craft for it.
The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year
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Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.
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I might stay up to watch Pacquiao muller Ortiz in five rounds, but Mayweather is not the guy to watch when you're already sleepy, prodigiously talented though he most certainly is.
Floyd Mayweather Jr v Victor Ortiz - as it happened | Steve Busfield
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Sutton and Larsson worked prodigiously but were unrewarded.
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To the Respectable Citizen, the Moral Matron, and the Young Person, with a love of larkiness and lilt, but a distrust of politics, pugilism, and deep potations, the following eclectic adaptation of this prodigiously popular ballad may perhaps be not altogether unwelcome.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 3, 1891
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It looks prodigiously as if just imported out of the slop bason.
Camilla
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At this moment the ascensional force of the balloon increased prodigiously, and Ferguson, Kennedy, and Joe, waved a last good-by to their friends.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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Such remarks , though, hardly begin to explain that prodigiously gifted author Henry James.
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But, Charles having got over to Scotland where the men of the Solemn League and Covenant led him a prodigiously dull life and made him very weary with long sermons and grim Sundays, the Parliament called the redoubtable Oliver home to knock the Scottish men on the head for setting up that Prince.
A child`s history of England
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What is even more remarkable to physicists is the fact that this prodigiously powerful computing device has developed through biological evolution, with all of its apparent uncertainties and redundancies.
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They played knur and spell, flew pigeons (they still do), fought cocks, coursed rabbits with whippets, gambled on anything and everything and drank prodigiously.
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The prodigiously gifted character actress Margo Martindale Million Dollar Baby heads up the clan as Mags Bennett, a marijuana queenpin who seamlessly slides between warm-hearted affection and cold-blooded murder.
Cheers & Jeers: Justified's Great Big Bads
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The prodigiously capable Louise, for instance, is weighing the relative claims upon her imagination of long jumping and bobsleigh.
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The dress was made to reach right down to the ankles, in deference to Lady Hayes's ideas of propriety, and Darsie felt prodigiously fine and grown-up as she peacocked about before the long glass of her bedroom wardrobe on the day of the garden-party itself.
A College Girl
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He stood beside me at the edge of a deep pool, likewise apparelled and prodigiously skinny.
SHIN-BONES
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Apart from squandering the resources of a prodigiously gifted cast, the film's greatest shortcoming must be its inability to generate the merest scintilla of dramatic tension around its central narrative thread.
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For if he had had a design of forging a miracle, from a sense of the insufficience of the former, he would have made it prodigiously or vastly greater than these, which he has not done.
A Vindication of Three of Our Blessed Saviour���s Miracles: viz. The Raising of Jairus���s daughter, The Widow of Naim���s son, and Lazarus.
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It was of course a tongue in cheek remark; Sir Frank was a prodigiously hard worker, who took immense pleasure in what he did.
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And when he chose to speak a harsh thought, it was ten-fold harsher than ordinarily, because it seemed to proceed out of such profundity of cogitation, because it was as prodigiously deliberate in its incubation as it was in its enunciation.
CHAPTER XII
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These animals are rather pretty at Rio, but far from strong; they are fed on maize and capim, or Guinea grass, which was introduced of late years into Brazil, and thrives prodigiously: it is cultivated by planting the joints; the stem and leaves are as large as those of barley; it grows sometimes to the height of six or seven feet, and the flower is a large loose pannicle.
Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823
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The Last Secret burnishes Mary McGarry Morris's reputation as one of our most prodigiously gifted writers.
The Last Secret: Summary and book reviews of The Last Secret by Mary McGarry Morris.
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G.R. Mead: But the hard irreducible fact remains that one and only one combination of our prodigiously inventive sexual imagining is actually and naturally fruitful — as in, forms a self-replicating society that will perdure to need the law you craft forit.
The Volokh Conspiracy » There’s Always Next Year
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She looks forward to immersing herself in the life's work of many an author unfamiliar to her, and plans to read prodigiously.
