bigger than life
Example Sentences
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“He was a true Patriot, a first class singer/songwriter, and a bigger than life kind of guy. He will be greatly missed.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 6, 2024
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
A bigger than life, powerhouse of a woman, my own mother's favorite person who ever lived……the incomparable, Willie Felt.
From Salon • Jul. 2, 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
