How to Use colossus in a Sentence

colossus

noun
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  • Leonardo da Vinci remains a colossus in the history of art.
  • These colossus games of Godzilla vs. King Kong are fun.
    — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 21 May 2018
  • Here are a dozen of the dopest office-appropriate options the footwear colossus has to offer.
    — Yang-Yi Goh, GQ, 15 May 2018
  • An intricate carving found on the back-pillar of the colossus reinforces this theory.
    — Nell Lewis, CNN, 20 Apr. 2018
  • What about colossus Zdeno Chara chasing around Auston Matthews?
    — Si.com Staff, SI.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The Arlington, Texas colossus was home to three of their games as Alabama football players.
    — Michael Casagrande, AL.com, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Coworking colossus WeWork is now valued at $20 billion.
    — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 29 May 2018
  • In this blissfully stupid and thoroughly irresistible new movie, the artist sometimes known as the Rock goes up against another colossus called the Pearl.
    — Justin Chang, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
  • Out went the plant-eating colossus, heavier than 10 elephants, its neck arcing gracefully far above the museum's second-floor viewing gallery.
    — Stephen Brusatte, Scientific American, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Facebook attracted 2 billion users and became an advertising colossus.
    — Sarah Frier, Bloomberg.com, 10 Apr. 2018
  • As the colossus shrank, so did the risk to island wildlife.
    — Martin Gamache, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2021
  • The cross was Bald Knob Cross of Peace, a colossus more than a hundred feet tall.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
  • The regime has held fast to power despite — or because of — the enmity of the colossus to the north.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
  • For many years, Tiger Woods bestrode the golfing world like a colossus.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021
  • Avila is playing the long game believing that the progress made will scale across the colossus that is McKesson.
    — Peter High, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • There’s a wild male elephant lurking in this corner of the park, a colossus our team has mixed feelings about.
    — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
  • Given a standard freight-car length of 50 or 60 feet, the colossus stretches out to nearly two-thirds the span of a football field.
    — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The network anchor no longer strode the media landscape like a colossus.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • The case centered on roughly 100 pages of legal-pad pages from the creation of a classic rock colossus.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Putin the Bond villain, the mastermind spy, the autocrat who bestrides the world like a colossus.
    — Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
  • The colossus then seemingly froze in mid-air and started tilting to its side.
    — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2020
  • Accepting her award in a satiny frock the color of the ocean and a beret the color of gold bullion, the 79-year-old colossus of song seemed a little out of sorts.
    — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Even Trump, who strides across the stage like an angry colossus, is somewhat predictable.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 6 Mar. 2020
  • Their bone density would have helped P. colossus stay down near the ocean floor while feeding.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
  • There is King Kong, colossus of the big screen, slowing waking on a mountainside.
    — Jake Coyle, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2021
  • There are a thousand ways a colossus like Microsoft can lose its way.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 May 2024
  • For much of the last year, the Burbank colossus has faced the biggest challenge of its nearly 100-year history.
    — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
  • That phase of colossus creation appears to have ended long ago.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2021
  • Ru started out in the late 1990s as a simple email service but has grown to be a colossus of the Russian internet.
    — Stu Woo, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
  • The new colossus, wielding a scepter in one hand and an orb in the other, was recently placed in one of the Capitoline Museums’ side gardens.
    — Julia Binswanger, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Feb. 2024

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