colossal

In a sentence

Six example sentences with colossal, each labelled with its topic.

• The atrium opens onto a colossal staircase whose lowest step alone is wider than most apartment living rooms.

  Architecture

• The studio built a colossal practical set, forty feet tall, so actors could react to something real instead of green fabric.

  Movies

• Standing beside the rookie guard, the new center looked colossal, with shoulders filling the doorway of the locker room.

  Basketball

• The fund posted a colossal loss in a single quarter, wiping out gains it had taken a decade to build.

  Finance

• The colossal squid can grow longer than a bus, yet only a handful have ever been seen whole.

  Science

• A colossal iceberg the size of a small county broke from the ice shelf and drifted north for two years.

  Environment

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