How to Use leviathan in a Sentence

leviathan

noun
  • The factory is a towering leviathan in the middle of the town.
  • The leviathan is dead; sharks circle and feast on its tail and fins.
    Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 30 Aug. 2023
  • And then there are the whales—Bitcoin’s own leviathans.
    Clara Molot, Vanity Fair, 17 Mar. 2026
  • Then again, this Chevy is more of a leviathan than most pickups.
    Tom Voelk, New York Times, 15 June 2017
  • The most obvious one, of course, is the modern leviathan state.
    Michael Tanner, National Review, 31 Jan. 2018
  • Hogan’s team hopes to use that breather to fill in vital details about the Mekong’s lengthy list of leviathans.
    Byrichard Stone, science.org, 30 May 2023
  • In the land of Exandria, there’s a legendary leviathan that awaits at the bottom of sea.
    Rob Wieland, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • But in the Mandate’s case, the real leviathan’s always changing its mind.
    Matthew Carey Salyer, Forbes, 25 May 2021
  • The best spots to see these leviathans with their new calves are off west Maui, around Wailea and Lahaina.
    National Geographic, 21 June 2019
  • The leviathan emerges long enough to swallow a bantha whole and then vanishes back below the surface.
    Alex Kane, USA TODAY, 30 Oct. 2020
  • The Super Bowl was the leviathan in whose eddying wake the pilot fish feed.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2025
  • Angry leviathans, seeking to annihilate with a god-like vengeance.
    Todd Heyman, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
  • Glowing, eel-like leviathan’s leap through the air before trying to swallow Moana’s humble boat.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2024
  • There's an encounter inside a leviathan fish that has been engineered to house life without feeling the pain of its own decay.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 14 Mar. 2023
  • Uth Duna, an eel-like leviathan, hits like a truck and moves erratically within its watery lair.
    PCMAG, 11 Feb. 2025
  • The federal government is a leviathan with many, many tentacles.
    Zachary B. Wolf, CNN, 29 July 2021
  • But Maiolino and his colleagues described a solitary leviathan with no parent galaxy in sight.
    Quanta Magazine, 12 Sep. 2025
  • But perhaps by finding more of these leviathans, scientists can unlock the ancient mysteries of the sea.
    Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 4 June 2018
  • The symphony is a leviathan, clocking in at roughly 70 minutes, and the Shed stage was packed to the rafters.
    Zoë Madonna, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2019
  • The federal governmental leviathan is the faceless vanguard of the status quo.
    John Kass, Twin Cities, 2 Mar. 2017
  • Many Republicans think the federal government isn’t just a problem, but a leviathan that needs to be slain.
    James Hohmann, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2018
  • Texas is there in the residual aroma of the mesquite and oak smoke coming from the kitchen’s massive wood-burning grill hung with wheels and pulleys like a steampunk leviathan.
    Mike Sutter, San Antonio Express-News, 4 Mar. 2021
  • The cryptocosm can mobilize computer power in volumes that dwarf even the data centers of the leviathans.
    Andy Kessler, WSJ, 15 July 2018
  • Aegicetus is part of the family that increasingly spent time in the water, related to today’s leviathans.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian, 11 Dec. 2019
  • Only two years later, bp acquired Arco for $26 billion to form a company leviathan.
    Ian Palmer, Forbes, 12 Aug. 2022
  • And once again, Diamond was front-row center for the fireworks blasting from the collapse of yet another resort leviathan.
    Jason Blevins, The Denver Post, 26 Feb. 2017
  • If data centers are resource-sucking, burning-hot leviathans, then Northern Virginia should be a hellscape.
    Big Think, 22 Apr. 2026
  • Jaws dropped—both in the cinema, and on screen—just as the leviathans, adorned with Fremen fighters, careened into the sands of Arrakis.
    Popular Science, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Though the prehistoric oceans were teeming with fierce marine predators like the ichthyosaurs and mesosaurs, those leviathans were not dinosaurs, but rather marine reptiles like sea turtles.
    Nicholas St. Fleur, New York Times, 6 Dec. 2017
  • These commercial leviathans have duked it out for the past couple of decades, with Amazon gaining the edge with its aggressive online offerings.
    WIRED, 24 June 2023

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