Use enormous in a sentence
Sentences ending with enormous
- I shall try to get the whole of the Leicester administration, terminating with the grand drama of the Invincible Armada, into one volume; but I doubt, my materials are so enormous. [6]
- The difference in time between Sebastopol and the Pacific coast is enormous. [5]
- The change in the newspaper caused by the telegraph, the cable, and by a public demand for news created by wars, by discoveries, and by a new outburst of the spirit of doubt and inquiry, is enormous. [4]
- One could watch the London markets daily, now; the profit to the wool-growers of Australia was instant and enormous. [5]
- The amount of money invested to meet the requirements of this vacation idleness is enormous. [4]
- In time they became truly enormous. [5]
- How many start, and die on the road, from age and fatigue and disease and scanty nourishment, and how many die on the return, from the same causes, no one knows; but the tale is great, one may say enormous. [5]
More example sentences with the word enormous in them
- Such a deal would make it easy for a big firm to pour in a big cash capital and jump L. A. L. up to enormous prosperity. [5]
- To whom else would fall the lion's share of the enormous prize! [10]
- The Emperor was with the army to encourage it, but his presence and ignorance of what steps to take, and the enormous number of advisers and plans, destroyed the first army's energy and it retired. [2]
- An enormous space, with our army's campfires dimly glowing in the fog, could be seen behind him; in front of him was misty darkness. [2]
- We are already wealthy; we have greater resources and higher credit than any other nation; we have more wealth than any save one; we have vast accumulations of fortune, in private hands and in enormous corporations. [4]
- The enormous monster was weaving its gray net over Tennis, and all the islands in the water, the Pelican Island, and she herself upon the seat of turf, and held them all prisoned in it. [10]
- And yet he was not tall; but on his deep chest, his enormous square shoulders, and short, bandy legs, the muscles stood out like elastic balls, showing the connoisseur that in strength he was a giant. [10]
- The enormous study was full of things evidently in constant use. [2]
- We picked her up in the street, and have treated her like a daughter, spent enormous sums on her, and now. [10]
- Our enormous forces, undoubtedly superior to Napoleon's, were concentrated in one place, the troops inspired by the Emperors' presence were eager for action. [2]
- Cut it in twain, and the product is enormous, far transcending any previous developments of our racy Territory. [5]
- Philip as a trusted clerk, without being admitted into interior secrets, came to know a good deal about Mavick's affairs, and to be more than ever impressed with his enormous wealth and the magnitude of his operations. [4]
- The architect had told him that it was necessary, and Pierre, without knowing why, was having his enormous Petersburg house done up. [2]
- He gathered himself together, and then with teeth, hands, and body rigid with enormous effort, he pulled and pulled. [11]
- The enormous sum to which the debt to Samuel Pfefferkorn increased gives the position of affairs a different aspect. [10]
- It is pitiable to see you, sir, a well-spoken and prepossessing stranger, making such an enormous pow-wow here about a subject concerning which your ignorance is perfectly humiliating! [5]
- It was enough to raise your hair to hear that variegated and enormous unanimous caterwaul burst out! [5]
- It is not to his own age, but to those following, and especially to our own time, that we are to look for the shaping and enormous influence upon human life of the genius of this poet. [4]
- They have nothing to do but to develope enormous calluses at every point of contact with authorship. [6]
- And it needs to be pretty broad to support a traffic of such enormous proportions. [4]
- She went on to ask him point-blank how much money she now had, and as he happened to know approximately, he could tell her; she clasped her hands, for how could any one human being who was not a king possess such enormous wealth! [10]
- Out of this throng in the streets I like to select the meek, patient, diminutive little donkeys, with enormous panniers that almost hide them. [4]
- Mavick pulled through, though at an enormous cost, and with some diminution of the notion of his solidity. [4]
- The result of this universal demand for fiction is necessarily an enormous supply, and as everybody writes, without reference to gifts, the product is mainly trash, and trash of a deleterious sort; for bad art in literature is bad morals. [4]
- But not so thinks the paternal bishop, who waves a blessing, which I catch in the flash of the enormous emerald on his right hand. [4]
- Behind curtains of thick faded brocade was her bedstead, a heavy structure of enormous width. [10]
- We had, on the way down, fine views of the snowy Altels, the Rinderhorn, the Finster-Aarhorn, a deep valley which enormous precipices guard, but which avalanches nevertheless invade, and, farther on, of the Blumlisalp, with its summit of crystalline whiteness. [4]
- And I am the voice of it," he added; and he drew up his loose unmanageable body till it looked enormous, firm, and dominant. [11]
- At seven in the morning a French convoy in marching trim, wearing shakos and carrying muskets, knapsacks, and enormous sacks, stood in front of the sheds, and animated French talk mingled with curses sounded all along the lines. [2]
- It requires, in the first place, an entire new terminology to get rid of that enormous load of prejudices with which every term applied to the malformations, the functional disturbances, and the organic diseases of the moral nature is at present burdened. [6]
- Was not that the fair Claudia, who a short time before had lost enormous sums at the gaming-table in the name of the rich Grimani, and who had invited Ulrich to visit her later, during Lent? [10]
- Then for years the enormous migration across the plains to California poured through the land of the Mormons and yet the church remained staunch and true to its lord and master. [5]
- Then there was that other enormous incident which made a man to be swallowed by an earthquake, then belched out again into the sea and picked up and restored to life again, and to live for many years. [11]
- He was conscious that here he was in contact with the springs that set in motion the enormous movements of the mass of which in his regiment he felt himself a tiny, obedient, and insignificant atom. [2]
- They rode across that bridge into the village of Borodino and thence turned to the left, passing an enormous number of troops and guns, and came to a high knoll where militiamen were digging. [2]
- Archaeologists are convinced that an enormous interval of time elapsed before our ancestors thought of grinding chipped flints into smooth tools. [1]
- I have noticed that a great pumpkin, the wonder of a village, seemed to lose at least a third of its dimensions between the field where it grew and the cattle-show fair-table, where it took its place with other enormous pumpkins from other wondering villages. [6]
- It was said that a boat came along there in the night and went around the enormous elbow the usual way, the pilots not knowing that the cut-off had been made. [5]
- Having refreshed myself, taking observations of the elephant's spasms and writhings between the sips, I resolved to make experiments on vulnerable points, and, approaching very near, I fired several bullets at different parts of his enormous skull. [5]
- I did not take these measurements from the fabric itself, but from the guidebook, and I give them here instead of saying that the columns were huge, enormous, colossal, as they did most assuredly seem to me. [6]
- It was enormous style for those days. [5]
- Perhaps the most striking feature of the American newspaper, especially of the country weekly, is its enormous development of local and neighborhood news. [4]
- By his side stood his son, sending swift arrows from an enormous bow. [10]
- Her enormous figure stood erect, her powerful arms hanging down (she had handed her reticule to the countess), and only her stern but handsome face really joined in the dance. [2]
- At one side stood an enormous rock. [13]
- Perhaps the red spot was a fire, or it might be the eye of an enormous monster. [2]
- Indeed, he very soon set down Mr. Brierly as a gentleman of large fortune, with enormous interests on his shoulders. [5]
- The sun shone somewhat to the left and behind him and brightly lit up the enormous panorama which, rising like an amphitheater, extended before him in the clear rarefied atmosphere. [2]
- But besides this, since the exhaustion and enormous diminution of the army caused by the rapidity of the advance had become evident, another reason for slackening the pace and delaying presented itself to Kutuzov. [2]
- The monks had set fire to the temple of Isis and the flames had been driven by the northwest wind down into the ship-yard, where they had found ample food in the enormous timber stacks and the skeletons of ships. [10]
- And even the ruins of this giant city, writes Lavard, are such as to allow a very fair conclusion of its enormous size. [10]
- As soon as Rostov heard them, an enormous load of doubt fell from him. [2]
- Before Paaker had reached the garden-gate, from the pylon of the enormous temple of Amon, was heard first the far-sounding clang of hard-struck plates of brass, and then the many-voiced chant of a solemn hymn. [10]
- Thanksgiving itself was rather an awful festival,--very much like Sunday, except for the enormous dinner, which filled his imagination for months before as completely as it did his stomach for that day and a week after. [4]
- We are also quite ignorant at how rapid a rate organisms, whether high or low in the scale, may be modified under favourable circumstances; we know, however, that some have retained the same form during an enormous lapse of time. [1]
- It is exceedingly prolific, and has enormous stalks. [4]
- Now we shall probably never have the least idea of the enormous number of impressions which pass through our consciousness, until in some future life we see the photographic record of our thoughts and the stereoscopic picture of our actions. [6]
- The artillery the prisoners had seen in front of them during the first days was now replaced by Marshal Junot's enormous baggage train, convoyed by Westphalians. [2]
- He introduced the potato into Ireland indirectly; and that caused such a rapid increase of population, that the great famine was the result, and an enormous emigration to New York--hence Tweed and the constituency of the Ring. [4]
- As with the physical law of gravity, their enormous mass drew the individual human atoms to itself. [2]
- A little behind, on a poor, small, lean Kirghiz mount with an enormous tail and mane and a bleeding mouth, rode a young officer in a blue French overcoat. [2]
- In the recollections of this voyage, even in Jack's recollections of it after he had paid the bills, it seemed that it had been simply glorious, free from care, generally a physical setting-up performance, and a lark of enormous magnitude. [4]
- In the drawing-room of the Villa Nardi was shown, and offered for sale, an enormous counterpane, crocheted in white cotton. [4]
- But the extent of the Serapeum was so enormous that the mass of people was by no means densely packed on the roof, in the halls, and in the underground passages and rooms. [10]
- At the base of the cliff I find a hewn passage, as if there had once been here a way of embarkation; and enormous fragments of rocks, with steps cut in them, which have fallen from above. [4]
- About the middle of the afternoon we passed through a prodigious natural gateway called the Felsenthor, formed by two enormous upright rocks, with a third lying across the top. [5]
- The enormous masses of rock lay dimly before him, like storm-clouds, and over his head spread the blue heavens with their thousand stars. [10]
- But the principle of reversion, by which a long-lost structure is called back into existence, might serve as the guide for its full development, even after the lapse of an enormous interval of time. [1]
- The chief point of interest, however, is an enormous sycamore-tree by the roadside and in front of John's house. [4]
- An enormous crowd of factory hands, house serfs, and peasants, with whom some officials, seminarists, and gentry were mingled, had gone early that morning to the Three Hills. [2]
- Cambyses noticed it now for the first time, examined its enormous size and rare beauty with the eye of a connoisseur, and said: "Who grew this wonderful pomegranate? [10]
- Explain to me my good Pontius how you were able to construct that enormous scaffold. [10]
- I was so much struck by the enormous amount of skilful ingenuity and exquisite workmanship bestowed upon it that I looked up its history, which I found in the "Beauties of England and Wales. [6]
- You know the machine, and you appreciate its future enormous career better than any man I know. [5]
- Clanking and purring like an enormous cat, he turned his head away to the window when De la Foret dropped on his knees and kissed the hand of the Comtesse, whose eyes were full of tears. [11]
- This enormous block lies there, squared and ready for the builders' hands--a solid mass fourteen feet by seventeen, and but a few inches less than seventy feet long! [5]
- One of them leaned back in his seat, and sang away, as if he had taken a contract to do it, using, from time to time, an enormous red handkerchief, with which and his nose he produced a trumpet obligato. [4]
- He lost--all--all--and at last against an enormous sum, still thinking of us, and only of us, he staked the mummy of his dead father. [10]
- He's got enormous landed property in Tennessee, I think. [5]
- Nothing serious,--let us just rub our fore-feet together, as the enormous creature who provides for us rubs his hands, and all will be right. [6]
- This corresponded in its enormous size to the rest of the vast city. [10]
- Every piece of it, by the way, afterwards brought an enormous sum at auction. [9]
- In front of it two enormous logs are rolled nearly together, and a fire is built between them. [4]
- For miles it is well shaded with giant trees of enormous trunks, and a clean sidewalk runs by the fine road. [4]
- But New York is such an enormous place I suppose one can't know everybody there. [9]
- But the world is enormous now, and prodigiously populated--that is one change; and another is the lightning swiftness of the flight of tidings, good and bad. [5]
- The small boat is an enormous thing, after all, and propelled by two long, heavy sweeps, one of which is pulled, and the other pushed. [4]
- The demand for intellectual labor is so enormous and the market so far from nice, that young talent is apt to fare like unripe gooseberries,--get plucked to make a fool of. [6]
- The ship moves independently with its own enormous motion, the boat hook no longer reaches the moving vessel, and suddenly the administrator, instead of appearing a ruler and a source of power, becomes an insignificant, useless, feeble man. [2]
- The Young Doctor immediately said that probably no woman in the hemisphere could have committed the crime, which needed enormous strength of hands. [11]
- I had no idea,--said the Professor,--until I pulled up my domestic establishment the other day, what an enormous quantity of roots I had been making during the years I was planted there. [6]
- We know that horses and cattle, which are not extremely prolific animals, when first turned loose in South America, increased at an enormous rate. [1]
- She increased before his eyes to an enormous size and alighted upon the pharos erected by Sostratus. [10]
- His father called himself the highest noble in the realm, and as such, governed the province of Persia proper, the mother-country, to which this enormous world-empire and its ruler owed their origin. [10]
- I never saw him exactly angry, though I have seen his tail grow to an enormous size when a strange cat appeared upon his lawn. [4]
- They edged the high arches which surrounded the two lower stories, and supported the upper ranks of the enormous circular structure. [10]
- At midnight they held a final conference and, decided that the Venus was worth the enormous sum of ten million francs! [5]
- He was first heard of in Wall Street as a curbstone broker, taking enormous risks and always lucky. [4]
- He knew that he was free to dispose of his brother's enormous fortune-half of which in fact was his--as though it were all his own, and he began to rejoice in his possessions for the first time for many years. [10]
- In his evidence he said that enormous strength of hands had been necessary to kill so quickly, for it was clear the attack was so overpowering that there was little struggle. [11]
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