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Example sentences for "gargantuan"

Lexicographically close words:
gardin; garding; gards; gardyn; garfish; garget; gargle; gargles; gargling; gargoyle
  1. Rabelais, "herein we see the injustice of the Gargantuan tribe.

  2. Farewell, my bluebell, farewell to thee," sang the captain as the iron crept cautiously over the great trouser leg of his Gargantuan full-dress suit.

  3. Incased in his old-fashioned leather apron that hangs from his shoulders, the venerable and somewhat Gargantuan Gustave stands most of the day peering into the tiny mechanisms of watches brought into the old furniture shop.

  4. They are monsters of ennui, and by their very pretentiousness, their gargantuan dimensions, throw into cruelest relief Mahler's essential sterility.

  5. There is the same gargantuan gaiety, the same magnificent irreverence.

  6. It is hardly necessary to say that, in reward for this Gargantuan feast, Heliche was made a grandee a few days afterwards.

  7. Yes," mournfully responded the gargantuan author, "and if they don't they ask.

  8. Visitors to the house in later years dwell on Mrs. Chesterton's immense spirit of hospitality, the gargantuan meals, the eager desire that guests should eat enormously, and the wittiness of her conversation.

  9. I promised to round up an unstoppable fullback, a Gargantuan Hercules, and I did!

  10. He doesn't like to come back to Bannister without having made good his promise, without that Gargantuan giant he vowed to round up for the Gold and Green.

  11. On my left, the end wall had bellied-in toward me, in a pair of gargantuan lips, black and utterly monstrous, to within a yard of my face.

  12. The hideous sound filled all the room with an extraordinary, grotesque parody of human whistling, too gigantic to be human--as if something gargantuan and monstrous made the sounds softly.

  13. Tell them the Gargantuan task of picking up the reins where the late, great Director FitzMaugham dropped them is one that will require my full energy for the next several days.

  14. But, somehow, community life had sprung up in this most Gargantuan of cities.

  15. But as their huge bulks come nearer, the chains that bind them become stronger and stronger, and the tremendous pull of the one gargantuan fire ball on the other raises titanic tides of flame.

  16. A careful examination was impossible; they were wrecks, but Arcot did see that they seemed mainly to be giant electrical machines of standard types, though on a gargantuan scale.

  17. The sun is doing it already, and on a scale so gargantuan that we could never hope nor desire to approach it.

  18. There were fifty ships coming from each planet; two hundred mighty ships in all made up this Armada of Space, two hundred gargantuan interstellar cruisers.

  19. There were small streams in the way--a tree or two, but these were obstacles unnoticed by the gargantuan machine.

  20. She enjoyed the complicated smells of the village store, half post office, half emporium, and the taste of its gargantuan bulls'-eyes.

  21. Thus it is not surprising to learn that none but the richest men in a province could afford to be elected to the very onerous post of "patron of the ceremonies," who had to foot the bills for these gargantuan feeds.

  22. Never were there such junketings: night was turned into day; roadways were garlanded; gargantuan feasts were served.

  23. The loaf at breakfast diminished "by Gargantuan slices.

  24. And as the powerful engines of the Polaris picked up speed, Strong imagined he could hear Gargantuan laughter echoing in space around him.

  25. He had learned a long time ago the futility of trying to deny Astro's Gargantuan appetite.

  26. Cabarets were crowded and seats for midnight beauty shows must be secured well in advance or by means of gargantuan tips to plutocratic head waiters.

  27. Some milk, Bill," I said handing him the tin of Nestle's which had just come to me in a Gargantuan parcel from an English friend.

  28. Across from them, over the dark curve of Gargantuan chest, in the statue's other hand, the shaft of the scythe leaned away into shadow.

  29. His Gargantuan figure is never absent from my Fleet Street.

  30. Worse--it was as though the ground and its every surface object had been run through a gargantuan mill and spewed abroad.

  31. Well it was for Triplanetary that day that its super-ship carried ample supplies of allotropic iron; well it was that her originally Gargantuan converters and generators had been doubled and quadrupled in power on the long Nevian way!

  32. The following is a specimen carte of one of these Gargantuan gorges served in December.

  33. Then it was that she saw, not a gargantuan blossom, but a dark-skinned woman standing above her.

  34. A long spiked tail, like that of a gargantuan scorpion, trailed out behind.

  35. Still others, close to the brood barns and pens, were being grazed by rotund Shropshire and French-Merino ewes, or were being hogged off by white Gargantuan brood-sows that brought a flash of pleasure in his eyes as he rode past and gazed.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gargantuan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    colossal; elephantine; enormous; giant; gigantic; great; huge; large; mammoth; massive; monster; monstrous; prodigious; thumping; walloping; whaling; whopping