Gargantuan

//ɡɑːˈɡæn.t͡ʃu.ən//

"Gargantuan" in a Sentence (16 examples)

Developing Algiers is a gargantuan task.

They convinced Tom to stay by offering gargantuan incentives.

There is a gargantuan spider in the bathroom.

These gargantuan beasts are also among the most intelligent.

Some distant observers of the Scottish football scene reckon that all - all! - Gerrard has to do is beat Celtic to become a legend. Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.

Or the twinkling dining rooms: all frilly net curtains, pink walls, kaleidoscope-patterned carpets and tiny tables, crammed with teetering piles of hand-painted ceramic crockery (think plates covered in colorful swirls and cocktail mugs shaped like heaving bosoms or ladies’ faces) that showcase gargantuan portions of Italian fare.

Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.

The delectableſt luſtie ſight and mouingeſt obiect, me thought it was that our Ile ſets forth, and nothing behinde in number with the inuincible Spaniſh Armada, though they were not ſuch Gargantuan boyſterous gulliguts as they, though ſhips and galeaſſes they would haue beene reckoned in the nauy of K. Edgar, who is chronicled & regiſtred with three thouſand ſhips of warre to haue ſcoured the narrow ſeas, and ſailed round about England euery Summer.

Magnified to Gargantuan proportions and repeated three times over it is absolutely disgusting.

Though a list of the great writers contain all the constituents of an Epicurean feast, yet to most of us it resembles the menu of a Gargantuan banquet.

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Wyndham Lewis is equipped for his task with an amazing vocabulary of diatribe and derision, a spleenful of gall, and sense for the absurd—the monstrous, the Gargantuan, the preposterously incongruous—which, when disciplined, makes his best passages uproariously effective.[…]with a Gargantuan art unexampled in our time.

The telecommunications giant hopes that this write-off, which contributed to its Gargantuan $1.8 billion third-quarter loss, will clear the way for a steady stream of future earnings.

Two East German Trabant cars attached to huge mechanical arms and outfitted with spotlights scan the crowd like alien prison sentries while a patchwork video quilt of Gargantuan screens, multi-image Vidiwalls and TV monitors spews words and pictures with exhausting velocity — Rock & Roll Mission Control running on amphetamine fast forward.

“Oh, you can’t get away from rhythm, Romilayu […] You can’t get away from it,” claims the “fantastic” protagonist who adds to the rings of Hank Morgan’s exploits a truly Gargantuan dimension.

I’ve shoveled this Gargantuan driveway the last twelve winters.

They therefore present what he calls a Lilliputian challenge to unguided Darwinism; if he is right, they present it with a Gargantuan challenge as well.

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