How to Use larger-than-life in a Sentence

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• Those in the audience who had been picturing tiny little hand puppets were blown away by the larger-than-life size of the animals.
  — April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 10 Oct. 2024
• For every larger-than-life slasher villain, there’s usually a determined final girl there to stop them.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Oct. 2024
• Rappers and prizefighters are two sides of the same coin, willing to stand toe-to-toe with an opponent, battling from the bottom to the top, and finding inspiration from larger-than-life figures.
  — Justin Koreis, Rolling Stone, 12 Oct. 2024
• The star of the show her larger-than-life crystal earrings.
  — Jasmine Washington, Seventeen, 6 July 2023
• Tim Burton has his sights set on a larger-than-life new project.
  — Benjamin Vanhoose, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2024
• My favorite part is the larger-than-life characters who are the face of it.
  — Karla Alindahao, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
• Leah was a staple at the eatery and was famous for her larger-than-life presence.
  — Keith Langston, Peoplemag, 24 Nov. 2023
• The minute-and-a-half trailer teases the film’s larger-than-life creatures and its mix of CGI and live-action.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 June 2023
• Sights of the local marina and mountains give the home a larger-than-life feel.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 31 July 2024
• That was in 1950, in the midst of an era that would soon be remembered as its own larger-than-life golden age.
  — A.o. Scott, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2023
• His father, Dee Kelly Sr. was a larger-than-life man who passed away in 2015.
  — Rick Mauch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 26 Apr. 2024
• Dickey was larger-than-life, and his loss will be felt worldwide.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 18 Apr. 2024
• Stories about Lynch have always been a bit larger-than-life.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Vic, on the other hand, is a larger-than-life charmer who has conned his way through almost everything in his life.
  — Kristina Behr, Parents, 20 May 2024
• While 60 years have passed since the last Negro League game was played, accounts of legendary games and larger-than-life players can still be heard.
  — Okla Jones, Essence, 15 Aug. 2023
• Some of his work includes a toilet made of solid gold and a larger-than-life sculpture of a hand with its middle finger in the air.
  — Saleen Martin, USA TODAY, 1 May 2023
• Courtesy of Rick Hendrick Rick Hendrick has scored a slew of larger-than-life victories over the decades.
  — Basem Wasef, Robb Report, 27 Mar. 2024
• Guests will travel through a larger-than-life green pipe, like in Hollywood and Super Mario video games.
  — Eve Chen, USA TODAY, 2 May 2024
• Set over the course of a wedding, the play is a portrayal of a larger-than-life family who are struggling to come to terms with a changing world.
  — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 15 June 2023
• Someone who very much stands on their own ground, very larger-than-life characters.
  — Lawrence Burney, Vulture, 5 June 2024
• But the show ends up far less than the sum of its parts, an oddly generic and muted take on a larger-than-life American story.
  — Alison Herman, Variety, 2 May 2024
• The outfits, big sounds and larger-than-life personas make 1984 the ideal year to center an exhibit.
  — Troy Smith, Axios, 29 July 2024
• After each of the night’s attendees had trickled in from the vast parking lot, they were met with the show’s name in larger-than-life lettering.
  — Vogue, 16 July 2023
• But his days as a larger-than-life billionaire operating above the law may now be drawing to a close.
  — David L. Stern, Washington Post, 17 Sep. 2023
• Now coming to market for $5 million, the larger-than-life estate has one hell of a history.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 19 Aug. 2024
• Buc’ee’s is a larger-than-life mega-convenience store and now has a fossil named after its beaver mascot.
  — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 28 Mar. 2023
• Torres gifts Swinton with a frazzled but larger-than-life character and the Oscar-winning actor — one of the best in the business — makes the most of it.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 13 Mar. 2024
• Better yet, examples of all of this can be found inside those very same larger-than-life hotels.
  — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 9 July 2024
• Bernthal: Mikey was romanticized in the first season as this larger-than-life figure who could take over a room.
  — Glenn Whipp, Los Angeles Times, 13 Aug. 2024
• Ezekiel designed the memorial to show a larger-than-life figure of a woman representing the South and crowned with an olive wreath, a symbol of peace.
  — Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner, 18 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024