Monstrous

//ˈmɑnstɹəs//

"Monstrous" in a Sentence (18 examples)

The building is a monstrous structure.

The prisoners were treated with monstrous cruelty.

One morning, Gregor Samsa woke from a rough night's sleep and found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous bug.

In all the rest of Europe, there will be monstrous festivals this year.

The evil spirit lived in a terrifying world full of bizarre and monstrous creatures.

Murder is a monstrous act.

We're all going to be eaten by a monstrous talking shrubbery.

The tip led the police to a monstrous crime.

We found a short valley between rugged tors which led to an open, grassy space flecked over with the white cotton grass. In the middle of it rose two great stones, worn and sharpened at the upper end, until they looked like the huge, corroding fangs of some monstrous beast.

"Broken by war, long baffled by the force / of fate, as fortune and their hopes decline, / the Danaan leaders build a monstrous horse, / huge as a hill, by Pallas' craft divine, / and cleft fir-timbers in the ribs entwine. / They feign it vowed for their return, so goes / the tale."

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So bad a death argues a monstrous life.

a monstrous height

The chiding billovv ſeemes to pelt the cloudes, / The vvinde ſhak'd ſurge, vvith high and monſtrous mayne, / Seemes to caſt vvater, on the burning Beare, […]

Possibly monster pumpkins may become still more monstrous by the shoots being ringed, and so may other vegetables and fruits where quality is of less importance than mere size.

The irregular and monstrous births

He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.

Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide / Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.

The whole story was monstrous, and only worthy of the superstitious days in which it was written.

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