prodigious

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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