Gargantua
Example Sentences
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Mustafa Kocyigit, who runs the Gargantua bookshop in Izmir, said the success of Nolan's film has revived interest in Homer and boosted sales of the poem "The Odyssey".
From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026
In 1995, Federated, the department store chain with an appetite like Gargantua, had already taken over Macy’s.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 14, 2021
At one point, Gargantua rinses his hands in wine, picks his teeth with a pig’s trotter, spreads a green cloth over the table and embarks on an epic spree of card games.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2019
For the Russian avant-garde, the rectilinearity of modernism—the cube, plane, column, grid—was as much born from the book as it was the industrial Gargantua of the new machine age.
From Slate ● Nov. 15, 2012
The pint of coffee was served in one great hulking cup such as Gargantua might have quaffed.
From The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies by Israel Zangwill
