Use immense in a sentence
Sentences starting with immense
- Immense sewers are laid across the bed of the Hudson River, and pass through the country to Westchester county, where a whole river is turned from its course, and brought to New York. [5]
- Immense treasures were found in his house. [10]
- Immense use. [5]
Sentences ending with immense
- Pierre had failed to notice Natasha because he did not at all expect to see her there, but he had failed to recognize her because the change in her since he last saw her was immense. [2]
- In any case, the risk is immense. [11]
- There can be no doubt that the difference between the mind of the lowest man and that of the highest animal is immense. [1]
- Here, as at Newport, is cottage life, but the contrast of the two places is immense. [4]
- The Temple of Jupiter is a smaller ruin than the one I have been speaking of, and yet is immense. [5]
- It stood here in the year 1500; and the room is still shown, unchanged since then, in which the rich Count Fugger entertained Charles V. The chambers are nearly all immense. [4]
Short sentences using immense
- It was immense --that effect! [5]
- These were immense advantages. [5]
More example sentences with the word immense in them
- The immense sufferings you endured from the first days of September till the middle of February you never tried to conceal from me, and I well understood. [7]
- In Brazil he would behold an immense mongrel population of Negroes and Portuguese; in Chiloe, and other parts of South America, he would behold the whole population consisting of Indians and Spaniards blended in various degrees. [1]
- Of what small worth would she have seemed to him, and to herself!--When this tyranny should be overpast, when he should be gone to some other part of his immense empire, if those she loved were spared she could be happy--ah! [10]
- They went away without thinking of the tremendous significance of that immense and wealthy city being given over to destruction, for a great city with wooden buildings was certain when abandoned by its inhabitants to be burned. [2]
- He stood just within the hollow of a cavern so immense that he had no conception of its real dimensions. [13]
- So Tom argued with himself that it was an immense advantaged for Roxy to have a master who was pleased with her, as this planter manifestly was. [5]
- My laughing and winking young friend undertook to procure and arrange the flowers for the table, and did it with immense zeal. [6]
- The good American who hired me to go to his country is to pay me $12 a month, which is immense wages, you know--twenty times as much as one gets in China. [5]
- Her first exploit, which cost her immense effort and established her authority, was the packing of the carpets. [2]
- Here in the West you are near the centre of a vast empire, you feel its mighty pulse, the throb and heartbeat of its immense and growing strength. [4]
- The Hebrews, who were settled in immense numbers in the province of Goshen, and whom Ani had attached to his cause by remitting their task-work, were now driven to labor at the palaces and fortifications which Rameses had begun to build. [10]
- Besides these, there were now an immense number of soldiers. [10]
- How grand and well-proportioned was the plan of this immense building through which the steward Keraunus, who returned with his fine curls complete all round, now led the Romans. [10]
- The highest energy we know, the soul of man, the unit in which meet intelligence, imagination, memory, hope, love, purpose, insight,--this agent of immense resource and boundless power,--this has not been subdued by its instrument. [6]
- I think, as we grow older, we decrease as individuals, and as if in an immense audience who hear stirring music, none essays to offer a new stave, but we only join emphatically in the chorus. [6]
- How immense it was, how mysterious, how it begot in one feelings both of love and of awe! [11]
- Bright, of course, was received with immense enthusiasm. [6]
- The Egyptian army was by no means contemptible, even when compared with the immense Persian hosts. [10]
- The immense house was brilliant with lights shining through its lofty windows. [2]
- But the bed was an immense one, and she was not near him. [11]
- He had immense vitality, he was tireless, and abundant in work and industry; he went from one thing to another with ease and swiftly changing eagerness. [11]
- Now the school visitors must all be ecclesiastics; and although their power is not to be dreaded in the cities, where teachers, like other citizens, are apt to be liberal, it gives them immense power in the rural districts. [4]
- Such is the vehemence of these attacks, that the unfortunate subjects of them are often driven backwards for great distances at immense speed, on the well-known principle of the aeolipile. [6]
- Even the partial transmission of virtuous tendencies would be an immense assistance to the primary impulse derived directly and indirectly from the social instincts. [1]
- At the entrance to the Arbat Square an immense expanse of dark starry sky presented itself to his eyes. [2]
- You have only to read Cullen's description of inflammation of the lungs or of the bowels, and compare it with such as you may find in Laennec or Watson, to see the immense gain which diagnosis and prognosis have derived from general anatomy. [3]
- The hosts were to march after the festival of the New Year, which Cambyses celebrated this time with immense expense and profusion. [10]
- Suddenly he said to himself, as he ran a brush around his coat-collar: "'Pon my soul, I forgot; this is my wedding day!--the great day in a man's life, the immense event, after which comes steady happiness or the devil to pay. [11]
- If she wished to find out who they were who had been sacrificed to the fury of the tyrant, it must be done at once, for the immense building of the temple already cast long shadows. [10]
- You haven't stopped to consider how many police would be necessary for this immense area of country if you are really to be of any use. [11]
- He caused temples to be erected in most of the great cities of the kingdom, he added to the temple of Ptah at Memphis, and erected immense colossi in front of its pylons in memory of his deliverance from the fire. [10]
- He manifestly owes this immense superiority to his intellectual faculties, to his social habits, which lead him to aid and defend his fellows, and to his corporeal structure. [1]
- The popularity of this immense show was very great, and we found ourselves, A---- and I, in the midst of a vast throng, made up of respectable and comfortable looking people. [6]
- The remains of this immense hall, with its 134 columns, have not their equal in the world. [10]
- Not deriving from these means the relief which he sought, he bit off an immense mouthful from the bread and meat, and took a quick drink of the porter; by which artificial aids he choked himself and effected a diversion of the subject. [12]
- The outside pressure, therefore, is immense upon the physician, tending to force him to active treatment of some kind. [3]
- When we arrived, the usual immense turmoil and confusion of a great Indian station were in full blast. [5]
- From that time the Spartan disappeared, no one knows whither; but the Greek troops allowed themselves to be bribed by immense sums and are still in Egypt. [10]
- The part of the room behind the columns, with a high silk-curtained mahogany bedstead on one side and on the other an immense case containing icons, was brightly illuminated with red light like a Russian church during evening service. [2]
- We are perhaps the oldest subscription house in the country, and have never failed to give a book an immense circulation. [5]
- But horse-racing is the most public way of gambling, and with all its immense attractions to the sense and the feelings,--to which I plead very susceptible,--the disguise is too thin that covers it, and everybody knows what it means. [6]
- It is, considering the immense cost to produce it, the cheapest product ever offered to man. [4]
- Mrs. Laflamme had the immense advantage--it seemed so to her after five years of widowhood of being a widow on the sunny side of thirty-five. [4]
- When he reached the great market-place in the quarter known as Ta-anch he was forced to bring his steed to a quieter pace, for in front of the Curia--the senatehouse--an immense gathering of people had collected. [10]
- I stepped into the Exchange, an immense interior, that will hold five thousand people, where the stock-gamblers meet twice a day. [4]
- Five days after the evening we have just described at Rhodopis' house, an immense multitude was to be seen assembled at the harbor of Sais. [10]
- They presently achieved the distinction of being denounced by names from the pulpit--which made an immense stir! [5]
- The state of the count's affairs became quite obvious a month after his death, surprising everyone by the immense total of small debts the existence of which no one had suspected. [2]
- Miss Ottway was the agent's private stenographer, a strongly built, capable woman with immense reserves seemingly inexhaustible. [9]
- Certain it is that this two thousand millions of dollars, invested in this species of property, all so concentrated that the mind can grasp it at once--this immense pecuniary interest--has its influence upon their minds. [7]
- The spy reported that the French, after crossing the bridge at Vienna, were advancing in immense force upon Kutuzov's line of communication with the troops that were arriving from Russia. [2]
- There was nothing terrible in the one small, distant fire in the immense city. [2]
- In this immense temple man seemed a dwarf in his own eyes. [10]
- Finally, he was taken around the country lecturing, as a reformed drunkard, and he had great houses and did an immense amount of good. [5]
- The king's private table, the service on which was of immense worth and beauty, was placed in an apartment opening out of the large hall, and separated from it by purple hangings. [10]
- The palace of Susa was built of brick, (Strabo p. 728) that of Ecbatana of wood overlaid with plates of gold of immense value, and roofed with tiles made of the precious metals. [10]
- He was a strange, immense figure, as he walked into the open space, and, folding his arms, looked round. [11]
- There was a strange numbness in his mind and body, and he had a feeling that he moved immense and reflective among material things. [11]
- She turned, and, stepping softly into the salon, seated herself near the immense chimney, in a heavily carved chair, her feet lost in rich furs on the polished floor. [11]
- The idea was so immense, so extravagant, that he couldn't get his breath at first. [5]
- This distance was so ample and full and quiet, this mystery of the desert and the sky was so immense, the spirit of it so boundless, that in the judgment of his soul nothing mattered now. [11]
- I showed no signs of astonishment at this remarkable likeness, treated him however, with immense civility, and begged him to pay me a visit. [10]
- Surely, he had seen it all; but what kink of the brain was it that the men wore flowing wigs and immense boot-legs, and sported lace in the hunting-field? [11]
- At first it seemed an immense force, but of course that was a thoughtless idea. [5]
- I seemed to see a man's heart beating in his bosom in growing agonies, until, with one last immense palpitation, it burst, and life was gone. [11]
- Many people are ruined, an immense amount of capital which ventured into enterprises is lost, but of course the greatest sufferers are the workingmen themselves. [4]
- They lay like roses steeped in dew, not asleep, but quite still and dreaming, on soft cushions placed along the walls of an immense room. [10]
- The great peaks rose several thousand feet above the glaciers, and then, as now, shattered by sun and frost, poured down their showers of rocks and stones, in witness of which there are the immense piles of angular fragments that constitute the moraines of Ivrea. [5]
- The immense mineral resources of some of those Territories ought to be developed as rapidly as possible. [7]
- Layard discovered some representations of hunting-scenes during his excavations; as, for instance, stags and wild boars among the reeds; and the Greeks often mention the immense troops of followers on horse and foot who attended the kings of Persia when they went hunting. [10]
- The quantity of refuse, broken, and rotten mica piled up about the factories is immense, and all the roads round about glisten with its scales. [4]
- He tricks the Reformers into immense trouble with his Raid, but the most of them believe he meant well. [5]
- The practice of recklessly heaving immense solid bouquets, of the general size and weight of prize cabbages, from the dizzy altitude of the galleries, is dangerous and very reprehensible. [5]
- We arrived, and pressed with the crowd into the immense custom-house, and the usual worries began; everybody crowding to the counter and begging to have his baggage examined first, and all hands clattering and chattering at once. [5]
- The kingdom of Persia was indebted for these inns (similar to the post-stations of modern days) to Cyrus, who had endeavored to connect the widely-distant provinces of his immense dominions by a system of well-kept roads, and a regular postal service. [10]
- She's got a perfectly immense reputation--draws like a dog-fight--and it all came from getting burnt out in hotels. [5]
- They were both pale, and the superintendent of police, after reporting that he had executed the instructions he had received, informed the count that an immense crowd had collected in the courtyard and wished to see him. [2]
- Melbourne spreads around over an immense area of ground. [5]
- He and the other prisoners were taken to the right side of the Virgin's Field, to a large white house with an immense garden not far from the convent. [2]
- Looking out of one of the windows at the back of Dr. Fothergill's house, I saw an immense wooden blind, such as we have on our windows in summer, but reaching from the ground as high as the top of the neighboring houses. [6]
- The immense house on the old stone foundations was of wood, plastered only inside. [2]
- The total expenditure of the Navy Department of every description, including the cost of the immense squadrons that have been called into existence from the fourth of March, 1861, to the first of November, 1864, is $238,647,262.35. [7]
- At the time of the Jameson Raid Rudyard Byng had gripped the situation with skill, decision, and immense resource, giving as much help to the government of the day as to his colleagues and all British folk on the Rand. [11]
- At the bottom of the incline was an immense heap of weathered sandstone all crumbling to dust, but there were no huge rocks as large as houses, such as rested so lightly and frightfully above, waiting patiently and inevitably to crash down. [13]
- The western side of the immense temple stood quite detached from the town. [10]
- Foucault took advantage of the height of the dome, nearly three hundred feet, and had a heavy weight suspended by a wire from its loftiest point, forming an immense pendulum,--the longest, I suppose, ever constructed. [6]
- In the absence of that immense variety of popular entertainments which now feed the public taste and appetite, the people found their chief amusement in frequenting the courts and public and political assemblies. [7]
- The social habits of our people have undergone an immense change within the past half century, largely in consequence of the vast development of the means of intercourse between different neighborhoods. [6]
- You are capable of immense things--man. [5]
- The lower part of his face was concealed by an immense beard. [10]
- An immense crowd of bareheaded officers, soldiers, and militiamen surrounded the icon. [2]
- To an accompaniment of barbarous noises the actors stepped out one after another and began to spin around with immense swiftness and vigor and violence, chanting the while, and soon the whole troupe would be spinning and chanting and raising the dust. [5]
- If the prince of Asia were a just man, he would be contented with his own immense empire and not try to subjugate a people who had done him no wrong. [10]
- The busy eagerness of a pioneer life was still a quiet, orderly thing, so immense was the theatre for effort and movement. [11]
- Of the immense number of indications accompanying every vital phenomenon, these historians select the indication of intellectual activity and say that this indication is the cause. [2]
- The Southerners are no more sincere than the Northerners, but they have less reserve, and in the social traits that charm all who come in contact with them, they have an element of immense value in the variety of American life. [4]
- The difference would, no doubt, still remain immense, even if one of the higher apes had been improved or civilised as much as a dog has been in comparison with its parent-form, the wolf or jackal. [1]
- You know from my lectures that I consider phrenology, as taught, a pseudo-science, and not a branch of positive knowledge; but, for all that, we owe it an immense debt. [6]
- And finally the mountain gateway opened, and the immense plain lay spread out below and stretching away into dim distances on every hand, soft and delicate and dainty and beautiful. [5]
- This soil the miners ripped and tore and trenched and harried and disembowled, and made it yield up its immense treasure. [5]
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