Massive

//ˈmasɪv//

"Massive" in a Sentence (29 examples)

We came up against massive popular resistance.

This is the most massive structure I have ever seen.

This inefficiency is a result of the animal's large body and massive legs and feet, which contribute a sideways motion to its walk.

The general's massive presence awes everyone.

A massive flood paralyzed the local transportation network.

The massive flood paralyzed the local transportation network.

The bad harvest caused massive food shortages.

In a fight against speculators who are dumping the U.S. currency, central banks of major countries have carried out massive concerted interventions in the market.

Massive amounts of carbon dioxide are generated every day.

The victims were innocent men, women and children from America and many other nations who had done nothing to harm anybody. And yet Al Qaeda chose to ruthlessly murder these people, claimed credit for the attack, and even now states their determination to kill on a massive scale.

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Compared to its counterparts from World War II, the Abrams main battle tank is truly massive.

The Enlightenment involved massive shifts in many areas of Western thought.

Across Japan, technology companies and private investors are racing to install devices that until recently they had little interest in: solar panels. Massive solar parks are popping up as part of a rapid build-up that one developer likened to an "explosion."

Since the launch early last year of […] two Silicon Valley start-ups offering free education through MOOCs, massive open online courses, the ivory towers of academia have been shaken to their foundations. University brands built in some cases over centuries have been forced to contemplate the possibility that information technology will rapidly make their existing business model obsolete.

A massive comet or asteroid appears to have ended the era of the dinosaurs.

But Richmond[…]appeared to lose himself in his own reflections. Some pickled crab, which he had not touched, had been removed with a damson pie; and his sister saw, peeping around the massive silver epergne that almost obscured him from her view, that he had eaten no more than a spoonful of that either.

Young Jupiter was smacked head-on by massive newborn planet […] "The only scenario that resulted in a core-density profile similar to what Juno measures today is a head-on impact with a planetary embryo about 10 times more massive than Earth," Liu said.

Notwithstanding Catherine's assurances, I was apprehensive about meeting Denys, worried that I would come off as a massive idiot […]

Did you see Colbert last night? He was massive!

Ok true believers here is the low down of massive coolness.

Heaps excited about it - I'm planning for a massive day.

saw the beasties last week in GERMANY at a massive little party called the Hurricane Festival outside Hamburg and here's how it all shook down[…]

OPEN THROUGH THE SUMMER: We are on the 3rd Saturday of the month, remain at the same venue, at the same price, at the same times and always give you a massive night out to remember (unless you've drunk too much bargain University booze!).

I own this one, bought it because I liked Slide. The album is quite dull. They were massive back in the day

Your dress is massive, love. Where did you get it?

a massive heart attack

Some bosons are massive while others are massless.

karst massives in western Georgia

Big up to the Croydon massive!

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