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Example sentences for "massive"

Lexicographically close words:
masseur; masseuse; massicot; massif; massing; massively; massiveness; massy; mast; masta
  1. Little had he dreamed of what the future held for himself and Andy; and that one day he would have good cause to remember with thanksgiving that same split in the massive rock.

  2. He held himself back until he was positive that he could land a blow on that massive head of the prize bulldog.

  3. Her boots were of a colour to match the pelisse; and a massive gold chain round her neck, and a solitary pearl ring on a middle finger, were all the jewellery she displayed.

  4. There was no sign of any motion anywhere, but gigantic power-leads led from the machines to massive switchboards, whose switches were thrown by relays operated from somewhere else.

  5. Sandy watched as he unpacked the instruments in the massive shipping cases.

  6. But it was not possible for people with no experiential knowledge of artificial gravity to believe that anything so massive as a sun could be destroyed by hurling a mere ten-foot missile at it!

  7. A subdued smile lurked about his lips, and he seemed intently occupied in counting the links of a massive gold chain, which fell over his doublet of three-piled velvet, studded and gorgeously wrought with jewels and embroidery.

  8. The massive grandeur of Roman architecture replaced the old Greek structures.

  9. This theatre at my feet, hewn in the living rock, flanked at each end by great piers of massive Roman masonry, and showing broken columns thick strewn in the midst of the broad orchestra, tells of ancient splendour and populousness.

  10. The other horn of the massive hill, somewhat more remote, behind and to the old castle's left, exposes on its slightly loftier crest the edge of a hamlet.

  11. The broken bluffs on the left rose into immense slopes of rolling prairie, and magnified by the night atmosphere into majesty, heavy with deep darkness in their folds, stood massive and vast in the dusk moonlight, like a sea.

  12. The idea was received vociferously, at which demonstration the giant Gulden raised his massive head and asked, or rather growled, in a heavy voice what the fuss was about.

  13. She covered her head with a blanket to shut out sight of that shaggy, massive head and the great dark caves of eyes.

  14. He brought back to Joan the sickening sense of the brute strength of his massive presence.

  15. Some distance from it towered a great dark castle, as massive as the rocks on which it stood, with one strong keep at the corner, and four long lines of machicolated walls.

  16. In vain the frenzied Spaniards beat on the doors with their clubbed muskets; the massive panels were unyielding, and a rain of bullets fell from above, thinning the Spanish ranks moment by moment.

  17. In the gilded sala on the first floor, a chamber large enough to contain fifty or sixty persons as well as its massive antique furniture, sat two ladies, one old, the other in the heyday of youth.

  18. The boat's bottom scraped the massive links as it crossed; Pepito clambered in rather too hastily and slipped; the sounds caught the ears of the sentry on the bank, and another cry of "Qui va la?

  19. A heavy thud shook the door, as though some massive body had been driven against it.

  20. A dark defiant head was firmly set on massive shoulders, youthful in aspect for his period of middle age, an approved and complete warrior at all points, and full to the brim, as one may say, of the chivalric traditions of the time.

  21. He consented gladly, standing forth alone, a crimson caftan thrown over his armour, the folds of his turban shading his massive Egyptian features and his lustrous eyes.

  22. The flames had not yet reached the library story; its lofty ceiling and massive walls had retarded the fatal moment that was now drawing near.

  23. Its culminating point is a plateau that is never submerged, even at the highest tide, and from which rise, towards the northeast, six mighty rocks standing in a line, producing the effect of a massive wall which has crumbled here and there.

  24. So saying, Pluto pulled at the reins, and stopped the charriot right between the tall, massive pillars of the gateway.

  25. The government has struggled to ready the economy for the new millennium through economic reform and massive investment in communications and physical infrastructure.

  26. In 1956, a revolt and announced withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact were met with a massive military intervention by Moscow.

  27. North Korea's long-range missile development and research into nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and massive conventional armed forces are of major concern to the international community.

  28. Despite the country's economic windfall from oil production resulting in a massive increase in government revenue in recent years, there have been few improvements in the country's living standards.

  29. It was of massive gold and, set in clutching claws, there were three stupendous diamonds.

  30. A smooth, steep slope led swiftly down to the edge of the Valley of Death and as Wiley looked across he saw as in a vision a massive gateway of stone.

  31. It was a huge, granite structure with massive onyx pillars and smiling young clerks at the grilles; but he hurried past them all and turned down a hall to a room that was marked: President--Private.

  32. What had caused that massive shafting, with its ponderous speeding wheels, to leap from its bearings and go crashing down the descent, laying everything before it in ruins?

  33. You pass through a locked door from the charge-room into a wide, stone-flagged corridor, lined on each side with massive doors.

  34. A massive steel implement shaped like a gigantic tin-opener, and used to rip open the backs of safes, is another item in the collection.

  35. He drew it from beneath him, and found it was an extremely massive (and quite new) silver cigar-case.

  36. Conny stepped smilingly forward, and proceeded to affix the band around the vicar's massive throat.

  37. But his teeth were set, and the muscles of his massive jaw were working hard, as he gazed intently on the gravel at his feet.

  38. His great shock head of woolly hair was dyed a bright yellow with quicklime, in his ears were a pair of huge ear-rings of massive gold that made my mouth water.

  39. His conception follows that of the early Brescian makers in the boldness of outline and the massive construction which aim at the production of tone rather than visual perfection of form.

  40. Bottaccione, a large water reservoir, constructed in the 12th or 14th century; the water is collected in the bed of a stream by a massive dam.

  41. While less imposing externally than St. Nicholas at Furnes its massive square baroque tower was very striking, and formed a fine picture in conjunction with the more slender tower of the Cloth Hall hard by.

  42. The doors to these "cells" were of massive construction and locked by keys nearly a foot long, or at least it seemed so, though we did not measure them.

  43. The principal building is now used by a Justice of the Peace, and we found little of interest save some old walls and a massive inner courtyard.

  44. The vaulted roof is supported by massive round columns and forms a notable example of the ogival style of architecture.

  45. When they parted Shaya felt ten years older, and as his eye fell upon the bookcase, he wondered what those glittering, massive tomes were doing there.

  46. These were soon followed by a fierce and noisy mob, armed with axes, pikes, and iron bars, which halted before the war office, and began to thunder at its massive doors.

  47. On shelves every where are ranges of steel dies; and larger pieces of the metal, for massive links or for clasps, or for watch-keys and other ornaments, are stamped from these.

  48. Now and again a vicious whining sound would swell suddenly to a nerve-racking shriek, and an enemy shell would land with a massive cr-r-ump, and a furious blast of smoke and mud would belch upwards to one side or other of the sunken road.

  49. A massive column of black smoke vomited upwards, pierced with straight flame and streaked with flying fragments of mules and ropes and tether-pegs.


  50. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "massive" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    astronomic; astronomical; awesome; awkward; boundless; bulky; burdensome; close; clumsy; coarse; colossal; compact; compressed; concentrated; concrete; condensed; congested; consolidated; corpulent; cosmic; cosmical; crammed; crass; crowded; cumbersome; cumbrous; dense; durable; elephantine; enduring; enormous; extensive; fantastic; fat; firm; full; gigantic; gluey; great; gross; hard; heavy; heavyweight; hefty; huge; hulking; immeasurable; immense; impenetrable; impermeable; incumbent; infinite; jammed; large; lasting; leaden; lumbering; lumpish; lumpy; lusty; mammoth; massive; mighty; monolithic; monster; monstrous; monumental; mortal; mountainous; onerous; oppressive; overgrown; overweight; packed; ponderous; prodigious; rugged; serried; sizable; solid; sound; spacious; stable; steady; stout; strong; stupendous; sturdy; substantial; superincumbent; thick; thickset; thumping; tough; towering; tremendous; unfathomed; unwieldy; unyielding; vast; viscid; viscous; voluminous; weighty


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    massive gold; massive silver