How to Use colossal in a Sentence

colossal

adjective

• But Graceland showed him the colossal hugeness of Elvis.
  — Ken Budd, Washington Post, 25 May 2022
• Word had been getting around about the colossal shoot, its enormous footprint in the Northwest, its cost, and its delays.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 22 May 2022
• The former president was raising colossal sums of money in service of a venture that didn’t exist.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 9 May 2022
• Re-energizing Gap Inc. is a task of colossal proportions.
  — Cathleen Chen, CNN, 2 Oct. 2024
• This was the first colossal team-up for the MCU, and a lot of the viewers in the theater probably didn't see any of the previous films.
  — Evan Romano, Men's Health, 5 May 2022
• The lone home game during that span, meanwhile, is a colossal Christmas night matchup against Tom Brady and the Buccaneers.
  — Bob McManaman, USA TODAY, 14 May 2022
• The colossal structures were constructed over more than two centuries and served over that span as a popular sanctuary and site of religious pilgrimage.
  — Tessa Solomon, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
• All the mining has woken up the colossal Balrog, and Prince Durin finally gets through to his father and convinces him to take off the ring.
  — Jordan Moreau, Variety, 3 Oct. 2024
• Researchers suspect that both colossal reptiles may have died simultaneously.
  — Elizabeth Gamillo, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 May 2022
• When air temperatures this time of year remain above 32 degrees Fahrenheit all day and night, meltwater pours into the colossal drainage channel of the Yukon.
  — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 7 May 2022
• Schwarzenegger! O’Donnell! — was the colossal flop of 1997.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
• As the Rebbe saw him, the Rebbe threw him a kiss coupled with a colossal smile.
  — Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
• The wreck of a colossal oil barge is home to some of the bay's most stunning marine life.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
• But the colossal star can’t even get on the WrestleMania card?
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• This winter has been one for the record books, with the snowpack built up to colossal heights across the state.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Ledgers opened a colossal 17-0 gap over the Lightning at halftime.
  — Ledeai, Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Blue Jays opened a colossal 39-23 gap over the Trojans at halftime.
  — Indy Star Ai Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2023
• The trick is to smash some beans against your pot to thicken the soup and extract colossal flavor.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 27 Mar. 2023
• The view of New York's skyline, bathed by the fading sun, is shown through the colossal windows.
  — Ian Malone, Vogue, 7 Sep. 2024
• The clip ends with all four dancing on the edge of danger while doing choreo in the jaws of a colossal bear trap.
  — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
• Each year, an artist creates a colossal statue that pays homage to the fair's theme.
  — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 15 Sep. 2022
• The water was full of surfers in wet suits; colossal Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, and cedar trees lined the shore.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• Towns will play the four alongside Rudy Gobert, who comes from Utah in a colossal trade.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 24 Aug. 2022
• The screen, filled with images at once colossal and weightless, may well be the biggest carpet in the city.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• In San Francisco, there's a legend of a colossal sope, a corn saucer that's as big as a dog bowl.
  — Shawna Chen, Axios, 2 Aug. 2024
• That’s a colossal misstep and shows just how much of a mess DC was before Gunn’s arrival.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• According to the Ice Age Trail Alliance, colossal ice sheets, a type of glacier that covers a very large area, have gripped the the globe 15 times.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2023
• But the difference is colossal, at times more than 10 times less than that of the enemy.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• The people on board watched the colossal creature weave the ocean surface, only yards away.
  — Julia Daye, Miami Herald, 10 July 2024
• What the fire wrought marks a colossal loss for Hawaii, for Hawaiian families like Brimeyer's, and for the world.
  — Ashley Pōkiʻi Lewis, USA TODAY, 2 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024