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    Use "prodigious" in a sentence

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    prodigious


    1. Moreover, they were a notably healthy people, who often lived to a prodigious age


    2. Nixon was an enigmatic man of prodigious intellect and talent


    3. She looked at him down her prodigious nose


    4. She tutted, shaking her head at me, but smiled happily as she picked them up, holding them to her prodigious nose


    5. “Jack was a prodigious reader when he was young


    6. And Mark, your power is so prodigious that you must have a care for your nine draconian guests in the crater, as well as the potential fragility of the reflective obsidian there


    7. Mark triggered their next jump in a panic as Zarkog blasted them with his prodigious fire


    8. Labour pointed to the prodigious accomplishments that the government had achieved during the war and insisted it could do the same in peace to give the Britons a better life


    9. Dropping the box, the man leaped to his feet, flapping his arms and taking prodigious jumps to clear the arrow stub, like a startled ostrich with the gout


    10. The rarest of the rare is the prodigious savant, like Raymond Babbitt (portrayed in the movie ‘Rain Man’) who could memorize phone books, count 246 toothpicks at a glance, and trump the house in Vegas

    11. Yet we know from the study of autistic savants that they can remember prodigious amounts of information from just one encounter with the stimulus spontaneously even decades after the event with photographic clarity


    12. savants that they are able to spontaneously recall prodigious


    13. A prodigious human calculator, he is able do complex calculations instantly, but


    14. We took it in turns to decide which looked like the proper one and the sun was setting before we admitted to a prodigious fuck-up


    15. a prodigious stream of it upon him for the moment


    16. A prodigious number of children were carried in arms or on the backs of their parents, and many more were at the heels of their mothers


    17. And as his prodigious bound carried him backward, there was the rush of a great bulk from above, and a thunderous crash filled the tunnel with deafening vibrations


    18. The global crisis we are now facing is, at its root, a crisis of consciousness (a crisis born of the fact that we have prodigious technological powers, but still remain half-awake)


    19. blossom, he tickles the innermost petals with his prodigious


    20. It is a testament to the original computer hackers' prodigious

    21. He went out into the courtyard at ten minutes after four, when he heard the distant brass instruments, the beating of the bass drum and the shouting of the children, and for the first time since his youth he knowingly fell into a trap of nostalgia and relived that prodigious afternoon Of the gypsies when his father took him to see ice


    22. it came from much farther off, unearthed by the rain’s pitchfork from the days when in Melquíades’ room he would read the prodigious fables about flying carpets and whales that fed on entire ships and their crews


    23. Not because he was paralyzed by horror but because at that prodigious instant Melquíades’


    24. Despite the prodigious efforts of Stern Stewart to educate investors, EVA analysis is


    25. Consider even the prodigious conqueror Alexander the Great


    26. He put his back into it, and even put his prodigious belly 236


    27. That night was very prodigious which I never forget


    28. That Alexander was a prodigious imbiber of wine cannot be denied


    29. the sickle with such prodigious effort as if he


    30. He is also only 21 years old and a prodigious rugby talent

    31. Hamilton’s work was prodigious as much as it was mysterious


    32. Although he began to be afflicted with deafness in 1802, an affliction which became total by 1817, his musical output was prodigious


    33. One thing is known, these dangerous ladders are allowed to remain because of the prodigious bribes being supplied to the KULMOOG by the profiteering merchants who lurk by the bone-riddled ladder's base


    34. He might have been a prodigious student when he was young, but now he is


    35. Her strength was prodigious, and she was not slow to use it


    36. Britta had on occasion in the past demonstrated her prodigious talents to the full to Duncan


    37. In the professional arena, Beethoven had a prodigious musical output: he


    38. His literary output was prodigious


    39. It signified that you were rich enough to waste prodigious amounts of money upon frivolities, upon luxuries, upon fripperies, upon small, intricately carved ivory boxes, shoe buckles made from solid gold, lace handkerchiefs etc


    40. It was followed instantly by a prodigious clap of thunder that shook the entire house

    41. John Doe is a prodigious type of man


    42. Some idea of the prodigious development of this branch of literature in the sixteenth century may be obtained from the scrutiny of Chapter VII, if the reader bears in mind that only a portion of the romances belonging to by far the largest group are enumerated


    43. At this moment it so happened that a swineherd who was going through the stubbles collecting a drove of pigs (for, without any apology, that is what they are called) gave a blast of his horn to bring them together, and forthwith it seemed to Don Quixote to be what he was expecting, the signal of some dwarf announcing his arrival; and so with prodigious satisfaction he rode up to the inn and to the ladies, who, seeing a man of this sort approaching in full armour and with lance and buckler, were turning in dismay into the inn, when Don Quixote, guessing their fear by their flight, raising his pasteboard visor, disclosed his dry dusty visage, and with courteous bearing and gentle voice addressed them, "Your ladyships need not fly or fear any rudeness, for that it belongs not to the order of knighthood which I profess to offer to anyone, much less to highborn maidens as your appearance proclaims you to be


    44. Don Quixote, feeling the weight of this prodigious blow, cried aloud, saying, "O lady of my soul, Dulcinea, flower of beauty, come to the aid of this your knight, who, in fulfilling his obligations to your beauty, finds himself in this extreme peril


    45. best, and be as prodigious;


    46. But all this, he declared, did not so much grieve or distress him as his certain knowledge that a prodigious giant, the lord of a great island close to our kingdom, Pandafilando of the Scowl by name--for it is averred that, though his eyes are properly placed and straight, he always looks askew as if he squinted, and this he does out of malignity, to strike fear and terror into those he looks at--that he knew, I say, that this giant on becoming aware of my orphan condition would overrun my kingdom with a mighty force and strip me of all, not leaving me even a small village to shelter me; but that I could avoid all this ruin and misfortune if I were willing to marry him; however, as far as he could see, he never expected that I would consent to a marriage so unequal; and he said no more than the truth in this, for it has never entered my mind to marry that giant, or any other, let him be ever so great or enormous


    47. WHICH TREATS OF THE HEROIC AND PRODIGIOUS BATTLE DON QUIXOTE


    48. We called to him, and he, raising his head, sprang nimbly to his feet, for, as we afterwards learned, the first who presented themselves to his sight were the renegade and Zoraida, and seeing them in Moorish dress he imagined that all the Moors of Barbary were upon him; and plunging with marvellous swiftness into the thicket in front of him, he began to raise a prodigious outcry, exclaiming, "The Moors--the Moors have landed! To arms, to arms!" We were all thrown into perplexity by these cries, not knowing what to do; but reflecting that the shouts of the shepherd would raise the country and that the mounted coast-guard would come at once to see what was the matter, we agreed that the renegade must strip off his Turkish garments and put on a captive's jacket or coat which one of our party gave him at once, though he himself was reduced to his shirt; and so commending ourselves to God, we followed the same road which we saw the shepherd take, expecting every moment that the coast-guard would be down upon us


    49. Could swim like a duck, paddled round the castle till he came to a little door guarded by two stout fellows, knocked their heads together till they cracked like a couple of nuts, then, by a trifling exertion of his prodigious strength, he smashed in the door, went up a pair of stone steps covered with dust a foot thick, toads as big as your fist, and spiders that would frighten you into hysterics, MIss March


    50. OF THE PRODIGIOUS AND UNPARALLELED BATTLE THAT TOOK PLACE








































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    Synonyms for "prodigious"

    colossal prodigious stupendous exceeding exceptional olympian surpassing portentous phenomenal amazing preternatural astonishing astounding extraordinary marvellous monumental enormous gigantic huge monstrous tremendous

    "prodigious" definitions

    so great in size or force or extent as to elicit awe


    of momentous or ominous significance


    far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree