brobdingnagian

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Downstairs in the exhibition galleries is his related sculpture of a folding card-table and four metal chairs, rendered in not dissimilar Brobdingnagian proportions.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 25, 2025

They were few enough that at times it seemed a coveted appearance on the Brobdingnagian video screen might come to each and every one of them.

From Washington Post • Jan. 1, 2021

“It was a Brobdingnagian grip-and-grin if there ever was one.”

From Salon • Jul. 8, 2018

Here in the foodie capital of North Carolina, most restaurants are still guilty of desserts of Brobdingnagian proportions.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2018

Given passenger pigeons’ Brobdingnagian appetites for mast and maize, one would expect that Indians would also have hunted them and wanted to keep down their numbers.

From "1491" by Charles C. Mann