colossal

Example Sentences

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That feature is now known as the Great Red Spot, a colossal storm roughly twice the size of Earth that has raged for hundreds of years.

From Science Daily

The Partition of India in August 1947 was a colossal, and very British, fiasco.

From The Wall Street Journal

Burn, making his first appearance since breaking a rib and puncturing a lung, was even named man of the match after a colossal performance.

From BBC

The facility was taken offline when Japan pulled the plug on nuclear power after a colossal earthquake and tsunami sent three reactors at the Fukushima atomic plant into meltdown in 2011.

From Barron's

But now we see this colossal change of heart - delivered in a characteristic blitz of capital letters.

From BBC