Example Sentences

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That he wanted a shot of him looking plaintively into the Iowa distance is understandable, though it’s somewhat undercut by his giantlike stature.

From Slate • Oct. 23, 2017

Thousands of monuments of our history must stand out in their giantlike solitude.

From Time Magazine Archive

It was three o’clock in the morning, the rumble of Paris was dull; it did not disturb him, for he seemed without the body and to have grown giantlike, and to fill the room.

From The Girl From His Town by Vorst, Marie Van

And then, as I peered, curiously, a new terror came to me; for away up among the dim peaks to my right, I had descried a vast shape of blackness, giantlike.

From The House on the Borderland by Hodgson, William Hope

Well, how you have changed, how strong you have gotten, how giantlike, like the beautiful mountains all around!

From The Three Comrades by Royova, Kristina