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adjective

prodigious

remarkably great in extent, size, or degree

In a sentence

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

  • The hospital handled a prodigious number of flu cases that January, nearly triple the load of any previous winter.

    Medicine

  • The bill arrived as a prodigious document of nine hundred pages, and no member claimed to have read it entirely.

    Politics

  • The rower had a prodigious lung capacity, blowing past a spirometer reading that most trained athletes never reach.

    Fitness

  • The rookie has a prodigious wingspan, and passes that should reach the corner keep dying in his hands.

    Basketball

  • The pianist's prodigious memory held two hundred sonatas, any of which she could play without opening a score.

    Music

  • The new data center draws a prodigious amount of power, roughly what a town of eighty thousand people uses.

    Technology

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