Example Sentences

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We had been impressed with brief stays in Rochester and Buffalo, two one-time commercial colossuses.

From New York Times • Jul. 1, 2020

Investors are betting, in part, that the Covid-19 crisis accelerates the already growing power of America’s corporate colossuses.

From New York Times • Apr. 28, 2020

Alisson and Van Dijk are two colossuses – big, confident people.

From The Guardian • Jan. 14, 2020

But what makes the “Transformers” movies different from other blockbuster colossuses is Bay.

From Washington Times • Jun. 20, 2017

The guards of the Legion galloped about at random; the people climbed upon the houses, the terraces, the shoulders of the colossuses, and the masts of the ships.

From Salammbo by Flaubert, Gustave