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Example sentences for "tremendous"

Lexicographically close words:
trembling; tremblingly; tremblings; trembly; tremendious; tremendously; tremenjous; tremenjus; tremens; tremolo
  1. Everywhere a tremendous impulse was given to the Freethought movement, as men awakened to the knowledge that blasphemy laws were not obsolete.

  2. It may be noted, in passing, that young students and speakers always select the most tremendous subjects for their discourses.

  3. After much parley he is persuaded to go on, but we are startled by a tremendous bump in the middle of the night, and find that we are stranded.

  4. Mix a little mustard powder in a can of water, and then sprinkle the water over a grass plot, and very soon you will see worms coming up out of the ground in a tremendous hurry.

  5. They think themselves tremendous heroes, while in reality they are little asses.

  6. Then ensued a tremendous sea fight, in which Drake, in the Revenge, took the lead.

  7. On the 8th of September batteries mounting fifty-four pieces of ordnance opened a tremendous fire upon the citadel.

  8. But at this moment a tremendous storm of wind and rain beat in the faces of the King's troops and nearly blinded them, and their muskets became so wet that the soldiers could not fire.

  9. Additional forces were brought against them; the batteries opened a tremendous fire; Lieut.

  10. Half-frightened, half-maddened by her own tremendous pace, the Breeze of the Desert laid herself out to beat all speed records.

  11. Those who know the race know that the Arab has a tremendous control over his emotions.

  12. The fire would have a tremendous headway before he could summon help.

  13. The quick, lashing blows had not done more than severely bruise the flesh of his face; and the mists of unconsciousness that had been falling over him were more nearly the result of his own tremendous physical exertion.

  14. She made no effort to pretend he had not incurred a tremendous debt when she had come with her pistol.

  15. With a tremendous effort of will, he recalled his speeding faculties.

  16. The way was now clear, and the next session brought the attainder of Shane O'Neill and the tremendous confiscation of Tyrone and other lands in Ulster.

  17. The Dublin Parliament, for its part, clearly saw that if the Act gave a tremendous power to the Crown, it yet held provisions which were a protection, so far as they went, from arbitrary tyranny.

  18. Unionists of every colour are dwelling on the prosperity of Ireland, quoting statistics about the tremendous increase of sheep and swine.

  19. To the executive that is responsible to the same Parliament are entrusted all the tremendous issues of peace and war.

  20. Mr. Liddell and I separated from the rest, and when we had found a sure bay for the cable, had a tremendous lively scramble back to the boat.

  21. But that's a tremendous exception, Miss Flower.

  22. To follow the road was to make a tremendous round.

  23. Just as he heard the loud bang of Grizzie's closure of the great door, the wind rushed all at once against the house, with a tremendous bellow, that threatened to drive the windows into the room.

  24. Something tremendous must be done; and done without delay.

  25. I hope we shall meet soon my dear Old Rip and we will not get into any more tremendous scrapes will we.

  26. Arcoll's message had given me new heart, but Wardlaw's gave me information of tremendous value.

  27. The first-class beat the second easily, and after a tremendous struggle beat the steerage also.

  28. It is leading his troops a tremendous round!

  29. The tremendous noise made by the roaring of the wind in the rigging, and the washing of the sea over the deck, prevented us from hearing what was said, except during momentary lulls.

  30. By eight it had increased very much, and brought down upon us one of the most tremendous seas I had then ever beheld.

  31. The tremendous force of the sea which tore it off may be estimated by the fact, that the hooks in the stern-post, which ran entirely through it, being clinched on the inside, were drawn every one of them completely out of the solid wood.

  32. After having reposed for about an hour, we pushed on slowly up the ravine, and had gone no great way before we heard a succession of tremendous yells.

  33. The main body of the savages, upon reaching the broken canoe, set up the most tremendous yell of rage and disappointment conceivable.

  34. He lacks the tremendous force of Tolstoi, the flawless perfection of Turgenev, and the mighty world-embracing sympathy of Great-heart Dostoevski.

  35. It is also capable of saying much in little, and saying it with tremendous force.

  36. But Artsybashev accomplished it, and his novel made a tremendous noise, the echoes of which quickly were heard all over curious and eclectic Germany, and have even stirred Paris.

  37. Its realism is so obviously and emphatically realistic that it becomes exaggeration, but this does not lessen its tremendous power: then suddenly at the very end, it leaves the ground, even the air, and soars away into the ether of Romance.

  38. And he could not help preaching, because he had boundless sympathy with the weakness and suffering of his fellow-creatures, and because he believed with all the tremendous force of his character in the Christian religion.

  39. To various schemes of education, and to the general amelioration of the condition of the peasants, he gave all the tremendous energy of his mind.

  40. Dostoevski had a tremendous capacity for enthusiasm.

  41. Two years later came another book of tremendous and irregular power--"The Idiot.

  42. They'll hold a tremendous number of garments; many more than Dorothy and I have.

  43. This, indeed, would be a reduction worthy a reformed parliament, and a tremendous saving to the public purse.

  44. Hast thou watch'd the torrent's force Dashing onward in its course, Till, in one tremendous leap, Its waters sink into the deep?

  45. Curtain falls amid tremendous applause, and a call for the author.

  46. Instead of milliners and jewellers, we find billiard-tables and gambling-houses, deepening at length, into the more tremendous hazards of the Stock Exchange.

  47. By the time they had their brief preparations completed, the fire, steadily approaching, struck the edge of an opening through the woods and suddenly burst into tremendous flame, with an accompanying report.

  48. Instantly he pressed the upward controls and his machine darted on towards the rear just in time to escape the tremendous blaze and roar as that string of loaded cars began to explode one after another.

  49. Andra was gazing through Buck's glasses at the approaching planes, which had a strange look as they flew at tremendous speed in V formation.

  50. Further than this, they are yet to evolve recommendations for terminal yards and double trackings which in an emergency would probably prove of tremendous military value but for which there is no commercial justification whatsoever.

  51. Despite the tremendous initial expense of these electric engines, their remarkable performances more than justify their cost.

  52. It quickly became the most patronized railroad train in the world and a tremendous advertisement for the New York Central, which operated it.

  53. Nevertheless, the railroad played a tremendous part in the War of the Rebellion.

  54. They are essential, perhaps, to the economical operation of the road's terminal, but when you come to consider the growth of the city, a tremendous waste.

  55. In past years its passenger revenues have even rivaled the tremendous earnings of its coal business.

  56. The tremendous financial difficulties through which the New Haven property has been struggling for the last six or eight years and from which it has not yet emerged, are undoubtedly the cause of this.

  57. As the greatest of all these, take the single tremendous question of regenerative braking.

  58. About four bells I heard a tremendous row; jumped out of my bunk, and ran up on deck, and the sight that met my eyes nearly killed me with laughter.

  59. So tremendous was the shock that the mountain tops could be seen to sway to and fro.

  60. The unusual amount of electricity in dense clouds in rapid motion is shown by the tremendous electrical displays attendant upon tornadoes and cyclones.

  61. In 1867 there was a tremendous earthquake which killed many thousands in the interior of the island, and dried up or greatly obstructed the water courses.

  62. One of the most tremendous outbursts of which we have any authentic account occurred in the island of Sumbawa.

  63. In December, 1631, with a sudden, tremendous roar, the mountain flamed into action.

  64. When fifteen miles from Mendoza, in the mountains, a tremendous roaring was heard, but he felt no shock.

  65. It overleaped the sentinel hills at the entrance of the bay, and swept with tremendous force upon the city, drowning with its terrible roar, the despairing cry of the sailors; then suddenly retired with the wreck of the city to its dark abyss.

  66. A series of tremendous shocks were felt in 458, wrecking many of the finest cities.

  67. It was at length noticed that dust and fragments always were accompanied by tremendous explosions; while eruptions of melted lava were far more quiet, shocks being few and the explosions insignificant as compared with the former.

  68. The mountain burst forth suddenly, with a tremendous roaring.

  69. In a short time it increased to a tremendous gale.

  70. It is Satan who speaks-- Satan in the wilderness; and he marks, as he wishes to mark, the tremendous opposition of attitude between the two parties to the temptation.

  71. The situation was tremendous beyond any that is on record.

  72. The exodus to the Promised Land presents itself as a tremendous enterprise in transportation, unparalleled in the modern world.

  73. It was upon the Jewish masses that Herzl made a tremendous impression.

  74. She had a tremendous reputation for rigid discipline in her classes.

  75. Of course," murmured Hinpoha, her mind on the tremendous impression her casual mention of the sonorous title had apparently made on the Twins.

  76. Just as George was delivering his reassuring promise Trees felt a fly walking across her nose and sneezed a tremendous sneeze, sending Guns sprawling upon the floor.

  77. She ran and embraced Marsa, pressing her cherry lips to the Tzigana's pale face, and then rapidly disappeared in a mock flight, with a gay little laugh and a tremendous rustle of petticoats.

  78. The tremendous tension of muscles and nerves, which had been necessary in the battle with Ortog, and the blood he had lost, his whole left side being gashed as with cuts from a knife, weakened him.


  79. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tremendous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    abysmal; appalling; astounding; astronomic; astronomical; awesome; awful; boundless; bulky; colossal; cosmic; cosmical; dire; divine; dread; dreadful; elephantine; enormous; exquisite; extensive; fantastic; fearful; fell; formidable; ghastly; ghoulish; giant; gigantic; glorious; golden; grand; great; grim; grisly; gruesome; heavenly; heroic; hideous; horrible; horrid; horrifying; huge; immeasurable; immense; incredible; infinite; large; lusty; macabre; magnificent; mammoth; marvelous; massive; mighty; monster; monstrous; monumental; morbid; mortal; mountainous; overgrown; prodigious; profound; redoubtable; sensational; shocking; sizable; spacious; splendid; splendiferous; sterling; stupendous; super; superb; supereminent; superfine; swapping; terrible; terrific; towering; tremendous; unfathomed; vast; voluminous; weighty; wonderful


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    tremendous amount; tremendous effort; tremendous fire; tremendous pace; tremendous rate