formidable
Example Sentences
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Beijing has amassed such a formidable arsenal of missiles that concentrating combat planes in one or two well-known locations almost anywhere in the region would put them in danger of being wiped out.
Identifying materials that can survive such extreme conditions remains a formidable task, and they can’t be fully tested without the plasma that future reactors aim to produce.
Recognizing this, Masson wrote in 1941, in “Painting is a Wager”: “Towards 1930, five years after the foundation of surrealism, a formidable disaster appeared in its midst: the demagogy of the irrational.”
Twisting and tying shoelaces into a knot became a formidable task for Justin Herbert in the days following hand surgery.
From Los Angeles Times
Nevertheless, she is one of the series’ most formidable characters and the model of resolute ambition.
From Salon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
