Brobdignagian
Example Sentences
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The room is empty, but for three Brobdignagian bouquets of white roses.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 22, 2018
The boom of each Brobdignagian piece of ordnance inspired me with a sum in mental arithmetic, which the immediate thunder of another explosion prevented me from carrying out with strict accuracy.
From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various
We quaffed coffee out of cups which were perfectly of the Brobdignagian calibre; and the bread had the lightness and sweetness of cake.
From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall
On the south side of Cudham Wood a beech hedge has grown to Brobdignagian size, with several of the huge branches crossing each other and firmly grafted together.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Darwin, Francis, Sir
I would as soon undertake to measure the difference between the height and bulk of the giant Gargantua and his Brobdignagian Majesty, as the difference of merit between my writings and Swift’s.
From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry
