bigger than life

Example Sentences

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I think it's ultimately this much bigger desire for each person to be bigger than themselves, to be bigger than life in a way.

From Salon • Mar. 29, 2024

“I could do B.B. King songs with all the emotion. Ike said, ‘Girl, I didn’t know you could sing,’ and I was so happy, because he was bigger than life.

From Los Angeles Times • May 24, 2023

After filming his classmates on a trip to the beach, the footage, shown to the whole school, makes one bully look ridiculous and another glamorous, bigger than life.

From New York Times • Dec. 9, 2022

“Tony truly was bigger than life, on and off the field,” Pitt Coach Pat Narduzzi said.

From Washington Post • Jun. 22, 2022

There was something sweetly shy about the way he looked at me, glancing at, and then away from, my face, his brown eyes bigger than life through his glasses.

From "Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green