Colossal

//kəˈlɒsəl//

"Colossal" in a Sentence (14 examples)

There are colossal mountains in the north.

Forgetting to say the graduating student's name at the graduation ceremony was a colossal miss.

Mount Chokai is a colossal mountain in Akita.

The completion of the Suez canal was a colossal achievement.

A nice lady took me into a huge, gigantic – at least from a 3-year-old's perspective – room, with tall shelves filled with toys. And I was sitting there, in one place, for I have no idea how long, but probably for a colossal 5 minutes or so, and then I just started crying like I've never cried before (or at least that's how my mom described it to me). Ladies from the kindergarten tried to calm me, but there was no use. Fortunately, my mother was still there, talking with a parent of another kid, so she came to me and took me home. And they decided to never take me there again until I was 6 or so.

What a colossal waste of time!

That was a colossal waste of time.

A colossal earthquake ripped through the city.

Our solar-system neighbors have ice mountains, frigid, liquid methane lakes, volcanoes that spew poisonous sulfur dioxide, and a colossal canyon as long as the continental U.S.

Katrina, however, cannot compare to a colossal hurricane on Saturn.

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A single puppy can make a colossal mess.

Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.[…]Much of their pleading is public-relations bluster. Clever financial ploys are what have made billionaires of the industry’s veterans. “Operational improvement” in a portfolio company has often meant little more than promising colossal bonuses to sitting chief executives if they meet ambitious growth targets. That model is still prevalent today.

What is wrong with you, you colossal fucking creep⁉ You found the only possible wrong answer to that question! “What’s your favorite color? Hitler.”

"It's just the very biggest thing that I ever heard of!" said I, though it was my journalistic rather than my scientific enthusiasm that was roused. "It is colossal. You are a Columbus of science who has discovered a lost world."

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