How to Use colossus in a Sentence

colossus

noun

• The building is a colossus of steel and glass.
• Leonardo da Vinci remains a colossus in the history of art.
• As the colossus shrank, so did the risk to island wildlife.
  — Martin Gamache, National Geographic, 15 Apr. 2021
• The cross was Bald Knob Cross of Peace, a colossus more than a hundred feet tall.
  — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
• To his right, Mount Viso—the twin-peaked colossus—looms against a bowl-blue sky.
  — Smithsonian, 28 June 2017
• In the regime’s view, the United States, an angry colossus, now stalked the Middle East.
  — Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023
• The regime has held fast to power despite — or because of — the enmity of the colossus to the north.
  — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
• This has all been a colossus failure, and nobody wants to talk about that.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2017
• For many years, Tiger Woods bestrode the golfing world like a colossus.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021
• These colossus games of Godzilla vs. King Kong are fun.
  — Mac Engel, star-telegram, 21 May 2018
• No one doubts Xi bestrides the landscape like a colossus.
  — Washington Post, 25 Oct. 2017
• But statues like the colossus were cast aside because they were made from quartzite.
  — Declan Walsh, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2017
• The Patriots entered their opener as a colossus, with not a care in the world.
  — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
• Avila is playing the long game believing that the progress made will scale across the colossus that is McKesson.
  — Peter High, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
• There’s a wild male elephant lurking in this corner of the park, a colossus our team has mixed feelings about.
  — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
• World War II history buffs won't want to miss this large, sprawling colossus of a film.
  — Michael Heaton, cleveland.com, 20 July 2017
• Given a standard freight-car length of 50 or 60 feet, the colossus stretches out to nearly two-thirds the span of a football field.
  — Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023
• The network anchor no longer strode the media landscape like a colossus.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2021
• The case centered on roughly 100 pages of legal-pad pages from the creation of a classic rock colossus.
  — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
• Putin the Bond villain, the mastermind spy, the autocrat who bestrides the world like a colossus.
  — Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
• The colossus then seemingly froze in mid-air and started tilting to its side.
  — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2020
• Accepting her award in a satiny frock the color of the ocean and a beret the color of gold bullion, the 79-year-old colossus of song seemed a little out of sorts.
  — Chris Richards, Washington Post, 31 Mar. 2023
• Even Trump, who strides across the stage like an angry colossus, is somewhat predictable.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, azcentral, 6 Mar. 2020
• Their bone density would have helped P. colossus stay down near the ocean floor while feeding.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2023
• There is King Kong, colossus of the big screen, slowing waking on a mountainside.
  — Jake Coyle, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2021
• There are a thousand ways a colossus like Microsoft can lose its way.
  — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 May 2024
• For much of the last year, the Burbank colossus has faced the biggest challenge of its nearly 100-year history.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2020
• That phase of colossus creation appears to have ended long ago.
  — Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2021
• Ru started out in the late 1990s as a simple email service but has grown to be a colossus of the Russian internet.
  — Stu Woo, WSJ, 11 Sep. 2018
• Finland, a country of around four million people with a small army, spurned the Soviet colossus, an imperial power with 170 million people and the world’s largest military force.
  — Stephen Kotkin, Foreign Affairs, 6 Apr. 2022

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024