PRODIGIOUS in a Sentence
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57 example sentences for PRODIGIOUS, such as:
1. She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels.
2. What a prodigious opportunity you have missed.
3. The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious.
4. The Turks killed prodigious numbers of the Russians, but the latter had their revenge.
5. The whole of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living manners.
2. What a prodigious opportunity you have missed.
3. The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious.
4. The Turks killed prodigious numbers of the Russians, but the latter had their revenge.
5. The whole of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living manners.
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Meanings and Examples of PRODIGIOUS
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prodigious
a. impressively great in size, force, or extent; enormous
Classic Sentence: (51 in 4 pages)
1 The Turks killed prodigious numbers of the Russians, but the latter had their revenge.
2 You'll make a prodigious fortune; if we cannot find our account in one world we shall in another.
3 It is plain such materials must have prodigious superiority over those pebbles and sand which we call gold and precious stones.
4 The whole of this prodigious city is a foreshortening of dead manners and living manners.
5 Leblanc seized this moment, overturned the chair with his foot and the table with his fist, and with one bound, with prodigious agility, before Thenardier had time to turn round, he had reached the window.
6 The trace left in him by the Revolution was prodigious.
7 A lark, which seemed mingled with the stars, was carolling at a prodigious height, and one would have declared that that hymn of pettiness calmed immensity.
8 A sign, in short, of some outbreak which is prodigious and near unless some diversion shall arise.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
Context Highlight In BOOK 7: CHAPTER III—SLANG WHICH WEEPS AND SLANG WHICH LAUGHS
9 His strength, which was prodigious, as the reader knows, and which had been but little decreased by age, thanks to his chaste and sober life, began to give way, nevertheless.
10 The prodigious strain upon the main-sail had parted the weather-sheet, and the tremendous boom was now flying from side to side, completely sweeping the entire after part of the deck.
11 As touching Slave-ships meeting, why, they are in such a prodigious hurry, they run away from each other as soon as possible.
12 In another plate, the prodigious blunder is made of representing the whale with perpendicular flukes.
13 When the painted canvas cover is clapped on the American line-tub, the boat looks as if it were pulling off with a prodigious great wedding-cake to present to the whales.
14 It must be borne in mind that all this time we have a Sperm Whale's prodigious head hanging to the Pequod's side.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 73. Stubb and Flask Kill a Right Whale; and Then ...
15 Gases are generated in him; he swells to a prodigious magnitude; becomes a sort of animal balloon.
Example Sentence:
1 She wrote a truly prodigious number of novels.
2 What a prodigious opportunity you have missed.
3 Watching the weight lifter heave the barbell to shoulder height and then boost it overhead, we marveled at his prodigious strength.
4 Matilda, a brilliant mathematician and prodigious reader, is loathed by her benighted parents.
5 Brianna Kahane, the 8-year-old violin prodigy, played at the memorial observance there.
6 The child prodigy Yehudi Menuhin grew into a virtuoso whose violin performances thrilled millions.