How to Use formidable in a Sentence

formidable

adjective

• The mountains were a formidable barrier.
• He has mastered a formidable amount of material.
• As the day wears on, the crowd swells to a formidable throng.
  — Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 9 Nov. 2025
• He was known as someone who used his formidable size to break up fights.
  — Rick Jervis, USA TODAY, 8 June 2020
• Some of them have come to beat formidable rivals at their own game.
  — Ni Tao, Interesting Engineering, 27 June 2024
• The fastest and most formidable predators of the seas may have just met their match.
  — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 19 Apr. 2026
• But she was guided by her formidable stage mom.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 14 Sep. 2025
• With the Padres’ bullpen still formidable, that may be enough.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Apr. 2026
• Such is the nature of a battle with a virus, our most formidable foe.
  — Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, 17 May 2020
• Illinois, on paper, is the more formidable team of the two on this road trip.
  — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 4 Feb. 2026
• Ben Shelton’s drive to be formidable on a clay court has hit a sticky patch.
  — Matthew Futterman, New York Times, 23 May 2026
• His challenge is formidable, to say the least.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacbee.com, 24 Apr. 2026
• Even the world's most formidable team of superheroes has to face mean tweets.
  — Rebecca Farley, refinery29.com, 1 May 2018
• That’s simply not the case right now, and the road ahead remains formidable.
  — Nick Moyle, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Jan. 2018
• Its sheer size revealed just how formidable a hunter this feline was.
  — Ari Daniel, NPR, 4 Feb. 2026
• Not the wave of the future but the past’s formidable revenge.
  — Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
• But the Lynx’s bench has been formidable all season.
  — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 10 Sep. 2025
• Women are much more formidable than people give them credit for in this age.
  — Yvonne Villarreal, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2026
• This quintet will be tested right out of the gate, as the Jets front is formidable.
  — Jim McBride, BostonGlobe.com, 15 Nov. 2022
• When the teams do take the field, ASU will face a formidable task.
  — Michelle Gardner, The Arizona Republic, 31 Dec. 2021
• Although the big three is a formidable one, the Warriors would love to add to their star trio.
  — Ricardo Klein, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Aug. 2025
• The two men — both well cast — team up to go mano-a-mano against one formidable foe after another.
  — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 11 June 2026
• Texas Tech is a formidable team with an elite offense and defense.
  — Shreyas Laddha, Kansas City Star, 10 Oct. 2025
• The two form a formidable bond as the film riffs on Schwarzenegger’s star persona.
  — Charna Flam, Variety, 10 June 2023
• Better to play the odds on the road against a formidable opponent.
  — Kevin Sherrington, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2020
• Nette was also a formidable athlete and presence in her own right.
  — Kendrick Calfee, Kansas City Star, 14 May 2026
• The Vols will be formidable early, but then the bottom falls out.
  — Charles Hollis, al, 18 Oct. 2019
• Echo along the way, Maya proves to be a formidable adversary.
  — Los Angeles Times, 1 Dec. 2021
• But by season’s end the Irish were a formidable rush defense.
  — Eric Hansen, The Indianapolis Star, 23 June 2020
• The rising start is a formidable force in the electronic game.
  — Billboard Staff, Billboard, 4 Apr. 2018