How to Use colossal in a Sentence

colossal

adjective

• Schwarzenegger! O’Donnell! — was the colossal flop of 1997.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2023
• The wreck of a colossal oil barge is home to some of the bay's most stunning marine life.
  — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
• But the colossal star can’t even get on the WrestleMania card?
  — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
• This winter has been one for the record books, with the snowpack built up to colossal heights across the state.
  — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
• The Ledgers opened a colossal 17-0 gap over the Lightning at halftime.
  — Ledeai, Journal Sentinel, 19 Aug. 2023
• The Blue Jays opened a colossal 39-23 gap over the Trojans at halftime.
  — Indy Star Ai Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Jan. 2023
• The trick is to smash some beans against your pot to thicken the soup and extract colossal flavor.
  — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 27 Mar. 2023
• The water was full of surfers in wet suits; colossal Sitka spruce, Douglas fir, and cedar trees lined the shore.
  — Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024
• The screen, filled with images at once colossal and weightless, may well be the biggest carpet in the city.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023
• That’s a colossal misstep and shows just how much of a mess DC was before Gunn’s arrival.
  — David Betancourt, Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2023
• According to the Ice Age Trail Alliance, colossal ice sheets, a type of glacier that covers a very large area, have gripped the the globe 15 times.
  — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 30 May 2023
• But the difference is colossal, at times more than 10 times less than that of the enemy.
  — John Bacon, USA TODAY, 27 July 2023
• Among them is a stone colossal head of one of the deities honored in the temples, chinless and without its lower lip.
  — Frances D'emilio, BostonGlobe.com, 19 June 2023
• To step it up a notch, Hannah suggests making one or two colossal ice cubes to keep it chilled.
  — Hudson Lindenberger, Forbes, 19 Dec. 2022
• That is a colossal problem for this agency and no amount of, of pointing fingers.
  — Laura Johnston, cleveland, 12 Sep. 2023
• When word reached him of the colossal teeth dug up at Stono, Catesby decided to make the trip south to see the fossils for himself.
  — Christian Elliott, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Feb. 2023
• The Cardinals opened a colossal 32-16 gap over the Eels at the intermission.
  — Indy Star Sports, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Mar. 2023
• And with most of the Golden State’s colossal snowpack yet to melt, the worst flooding could be yet to come, Hayley Smith reports.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 9 May 2023
• Ethiopia has spent years building a colossal dam on the Nile, inciting fear and anger from Egypt downstream.
  — Alissa J. Rubin Bryan Denton, New York Times, 29 July 2023
• The production is lush and full, a wall of sound built from colossal snare drums and frantic strings, waves of horns and textured piano.
  — Hanif Abdurraqib, The New Yorker, 17 July 2023
• Take a drive along the 36-mile Scenic Drive loop or get out in the fresh air and hike on the dozens of trails that lead you to stone arches, soaring pinnacles, and stacks of colossal rocks.
  — Alicia Erickson, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 Dec. 2022
• This was a colossal mismatch from the tip like so many other games South Carolina's been a part of this season.
  — Pete Iacobelli, ajc, 17 Mar. 2023
• In January, the chain brought back the Double Big Mac years after the colossal burger made its debut in 2020.
  — Tanasia Kenney, Miami Herald, 2 Feb. 2024
• And unlike the colossal snowfalls in the West, snow was also on holiday this season across the region.
  — Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 8 Mar. 2023
• The Cardinals opened a colossal 21-0 gap over the Eagles at the intermission.
  — Ledeai, The Courier-Journal, 19 Aug. 2023
• Then there’s the trailer used to haul logs and equipment, the tractor and the forklift used to move logs around, and the colossal commercial-grade truck used to tow the trailer and Kimbrell’s RV.
  — Lawrence Specker | [e-mail], al, 18 Sep. 2023
• The colossal jackpot is the seventh-largest in US lottery history and the third-largest Powerball jackpot.
  — Holly Yan, CNN, 19 July 2023
• Newscasters spoke of colossal traffic jams and hordes of young people.
  — Alex Traub, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2023
• Take Google’s Makani, which sought to generate wind power with a colossal 26-meter-wide drone.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Jan. 2024
• This 40-mile road traverses ocean straits on colossal bridges connecting some of the Geiyo Islands and was built with cyclists in mind.
  — Andrea Romano, Travel + Leisure, 26 Jan. 2024

Last Updated: 3 May 2024