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Example sentences for "behemoth"

Lexicographically close words:
beheaded; beheading; beheard; beheld; behelde; behest; behests; behight; behime; behind
  1. Some way into the forest, the ground sprang up into mountains that were as fierce and behemoth as the trees that clothed them.

  2. Your ideologies may cause conflict, yet it seems that your behemoth states facilitate it into war.

  3. There is one passage in the description of the Behemoth which requires a few words of explanation: "He moveth his tail like a cedar" (v.

  4. In the first place, it is evident that we may dismiss from our minds the idea that the Behemoth was an extinct pachyderm.

  5. Only two of the Behemoth were ever created, and, lest they should increase in numbers, and destroy every green thing on the face of the earth, they were made incapable of propagating their kind.

  6. A little allowance must of course be made for poetical imagery, but we shall find that in all important details the account of the Behemoth agrees perfectly with the appearance and habits of the hippopotamus.

  7. There are other legends of the Behemoth too puerile to be narrated.

  8. Assuming, therefore, that the Behemoth is identical with the hippopotamus, we will proceed with the description.

  9. In the same verse, the behemoth is referred to by the singular pronoun he.

  10. An example may be found in Job 40:15, where the plural form behemoth is used to intensify the image of the animal there being described, as is shown by context.

  11. While Napier and Madge mounted guard over Behemoth and the lesser luggage, Julian and Nan, with Miss Greta between them, disappeared in the crush.

  12. Singleton caught Napier's eye, and both glanced at Behemoth disappearing down the drive on top of the service-motor.

  13. It was not a noise capable of description--something like Behemoth hiccuping goes nearest.

  14. And Behemoth and Leviathan, spoken of by Job?

  15. The word Behemoth is a plural form in Hebrew meaning Excellence.

  16. Then again, after God has called to witness for him behemoth and leviathan, he replies, 'I know that thou canst do everything, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

  17. A third inspiration showed him how he could obtain a behemoth for immediate use.

  18. The longer he gazed at the behemoth the more he admired it.

  19. When the gathering dusk made further reading impossible, and began to blur the features of the behemoth into less pleasing form Sube stood up.

  20. He abandoned this idea, however, when the behemoth turned and made a counter-charge.

  21. Again Sube drew back the redolent curtain and to all appearances the dog-like behemoth was sweating blood profusely.

  22. And it was not long before the Human Fly gave way to the Only Genuine Blood-Sweating Behemoth of Holy Writ Now in Captivity.

  23. For this particular behemoth was new at the blood-sweating business.

  24. Job Chapter 40 Of the power of God in the behemoth and the leviathan.

  25. Behold behemoth whom I made with thee, he eateth grass like an ox.

  26. For the Leviathan and Behemoth see Job XL, 15-30; B.

  27. Captain Hanno's favorite bireme was not one of the largest of her class in length of keel, but seemed to be the very behemoth of the Tyrian pleasure-fleet by reason of her high prow and stern, both of which projected far beyond the water-line.

  28. Crossing a shoal, the huge billows mounted higher, and one of immense size hovered an instant in air, like the jaw of some great behemoth pursuing its tiny prey, then fell upon the boat, swallowing her in its remorseless maw.

  29. I lowered behemoth with infinite exertion till he reached the ground outside the prison grounds in safety, wrapped the clapper of the bell in my waistcoat, and descended hand over hand after him.

  30. Get out of this as quick as you can; 'tis more than behemoth could do in a month of dark nights, and so I cut my share of the adventure.

  31. Next, at a harness-store, a leash was bargained for and obtained, and Behemoth bowled over no more young men that day.

  32. Certainly Behemoth must have perceived what was so plain even to a human critic, that here was the first dog this man had ever patted in his life.

  33. But Behemoth was not asleep; on the contrary he was overlooking the proceedings in the office with an air of intelligent and paternal interest.

  34. Between Behemoth and young Henry Surface there passed a long look.

  35. There was nothing in the world for Behemoth to do but wildly leap under the hoofs for his life.

  36. Mere quills won't quell an Impi, or make Behemoth good-neighbourly.

  37. Behemoth is big and black, and monstrous-mouthed and toothfull, But to say he is carnivorous were cruelly untruthful!

  38. Behemoth meanwhile snorted in his own earthquaky fashion, And yawned, and lashed and trampled like a tiger in a passion.

  39. As I approached Behemoth her eye looked very wicked.

  40. Here the Bushman, quickly brought me a stout buffalo-rheim from my horse's neck, which I passed through the opening in the thick skin, and moored Behemoth to a tree.

  41. In truth, that behemoth had entertained a wild idea of actually hiring old Bildad and Caesar Napoleon to appear at the moment Hicks started for his last trial, but this weird scheme was abandoned!

  42. Tug Cardiff, the behemoth shot-putter, through a huge megaphone imitated a Ballyhoo Bill, and roared his absurd announcement to the hilarious crowd of collegians in the stand.

  43. Hicks, as the behemoth Butch and Beef seized him, swinging him aloft with ludicrous ease, "Police!

  44. Butch Brewster, with sinister significance that escaped the heedless Hicks, as the behemoth Butch, a two-miler, swung into the lead.

  45. The loyal Theophilus lost no opportunity of impressing his behemoth friend with the sacred traditions of the campus, or of explaining why Thor was wrong in characterizing all else than study as foolishness and waste of time.

  46. Yet instead of boning in his warm room, the behemoth Senior perched on the fence and stared gloomily into space.

  47. Big Butch Brewster, captain and full-back of the Bannister College football squad, his behemoth bulk swathed in heavy blankets and crowded into a narrow bunk, shifted his vast tonnage restlessly.

  48. Strangely enough, the behemoth Thorwald was not thinking so much of having to give up his studies, of having to lay aside his books and take up again the implements of toil.

  49. Butch Brewster, that behemoth Senior had rounded up Coach Corridan, and together they had dragged the shivering Hicks out to the football field.

  50. I looked in the direction of the sound and presently there hove in sight a colossal something of behemoth proportions;--something the like of which I had never seen or heard of in all my life, and I was stricken dumb with amazement.


  51. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "behemoth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    giant; thumping; vast