big as life
Example Sentences
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Near it, and part of it, is Willemzoon, with her plain face and her deep sapphire eyes, as big as life, and no bigger.
From New York Times • Sep. 1, 2016
There was as big as life," Pileggi recalls, "and Nora leaned across to me in the theatre and said, 'This one is for real… you can't just phone it in.'
From The Guardian • Feb. 3, 2013
There, big as life, shining in the full June moon, lay the sleek, clean form of a German pocket battleship.
From Time Magazine Archive
Towering twice as big as life were melodramatic figures of Copernicus, Paracelsus, the 16th Century alchemist-physician, and Fischer von Erlach, the Austrian baroque architect.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man came out of nowhere, walked up to Father in broad daylight, big as life, and on television.
From "The Rock and the River" by Kekla Magoon
