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

We believe Muldoon sees in this mental picture a Brobdignagian placard on the back of the vehicle reading, "This is Muldoon!!!"

From Peeps at People by Holliday, Robert Cortes

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

It is a conservatory on a Brobdignagian scale.

From Sporting Scenes amongst the Kaffirs of South Africa by Drayson, A. W. (Alfred Wilks)

This apartment was also garnished with its pretty prints and Brobdignagian alphabets, and possessed its coloured maps and stands.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume I (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous