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"Formidable" in a Sentence (15 examples)
The wrestler has a formidable grip.
He is a formidable opponent.
All those tricks he's got up his sleeve make him a formidable client.
Formidable looking spiders do not attack people.
With all of his tricks he has mastered, he will be able to deal with any formidable client.
The leader made formidable declarations.
Some lion Bruce Willis is chasing is a formidable animal, but is not ferocious.
There will he find an Egmont and an Orange, the brave warriors of Emperor Charles, as wise in council as they are formidable in the field.
We promised, in our last article, to illustrate the formidable powers of the white shark, by relating a fearful struggle between this animal and a human being.
My formidable grandmother was such a stickler for language that whenever she heard someone ask "Can I…" she would interrupt and snap back at them, "I don't know, can you? If you don't know yourself, how would I know what you're capable of? If you're asking permission say 'May I…'"
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The latter part of the fifteenth century prepared a train of future events, that ended by raising France to a formidable power, which has ever since been, from time to time, the principal object of jealousy to the other European nations.
[…] and I am more afraid of those people than I am of Anytus and his colleagues, although they are formidable enough.
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As I look back on that week in China two impressions stand out most vividly. One is the awesome sight of the disciplined but wildly—almost fanatically—enthusiastic audience at the gymnastic exhibition in Peking, confirming my belief that we must cultivate China during the next few decades while it is still learning to develop its national strength and potential. Otherwise we will one day be confronted with the most formidable enemy that has ever existed in the history of the world.
[Ian] Holloway has unfinished business in the Premier League after relegation last year and he will make a swift return if he can overcome West Ham a week on Saturday. Sam Allardyce, the West Ham manager, will be acutely aware that when the stakes are high, Blackpool are simply formidable.
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