How to Use colossal in a Sentence

colossal

adjective
  • Two firetrucks are no match for the colossal weight of the stage rigging.
    — Bryan West, Nashville Tennessean, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Two hands are required to bite into just half of the colossal dish.
    — Amanda Hancock, Louisville Courier Journal, 16 Jan. 2026
  • Their task was to do away with the colossal facade overhead.
    — Adrienne Lafrance, The Atlantic, 1 June 2026
  • But the point is that the World Cup is, in a word, colossal.
    — Henry Bushnell, New York Times, 8 June 2026
  • To only lose, say, a month worth of work would be a colossal success.
    — Dave Thier, Forbes, 2 Mar. 2021
  • Another way of putting the above is that records are a colossal pain in the ass.
    — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 23 Dec. 2021
  • Keep reading to learn how to watch the colossal sci-fi thriller at home for your next movie night.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes.com, 5 Aug. 2025
  • On this day last year, a colossal squid was caught on camera in the deep sea for the first time.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, 11 Mar. 2026
  • What happened from there led to a colossal collapse.
    — Omar Kelly updated October 6, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2025
  • Each year, an artist creates a colossal statue that pays homage to the fair's theme.
    — Gabi De La Rosa, Chron, 15 Sep. 2022
  • The wreck of a colossal oil barge is home to some of the bay's most stunning marine life.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 4 Jan. 2026
  • The wreck of a colossal oil barge is home to some of the bay's most stunning marine life.
    — Carley Rojas Avila, Travel + Leisure, 22 Sep. 2023
  • About 6 miles away, hot ash began spewing from the ground in a colossal geyser.
    — Ned Rozell, Anchorage Daily News, 22 May 2021
  • The great catastrophic threat of our time turned out to be a colossal dud.
    — Eric Spitznagel, Popular Mechanics, 27 Dec. 2019
  • But why did such a colossal vessel never get past the drawing board?
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 7 May 2026
  • The clip shows the colossal squid gliding across a backdrop of deep dark waters.
    — Arick Wierson, MSNBC Newsweek, 16 Apr. 2025
  • This winter has been one for the record books, with the snowpack built up to colossal heights across the state.
    — Jack Lee, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Even among the colossal estates of Bel-Air, the house is over the top.
    — Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The stilts are just the tip of the iceberg, if that iceberg were a colossal frozen banana.
    — Steven Louis Goldstein, New York Times, 1 Aug. 2025
  • How many lies were told and lives ruined as the price for seeding and growing the colossal farce?
    — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 2 Nov. 2020
  • The trick is to smash some beans against your pot to thicken the soup and extract colossal flavor.
    — Nina Moskowitz, Bon Appétit, 27 Mar. 2023
  • As the Rebbe saw him, the Rebbe threw him a kiss coupled with a colossal smile.
    — Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson, Sun Sentinel, 9 Aug. 2024
  • The film is a colossal hit, so surely that must be working out great for Sony, right?
    — Paul Tassi, Forbes.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • That would be a mistake of — of colossal proportions.
    — NBC news, 22 Mar. 2026
  • The clip ends with all four dancing on the edge of danger while doing choreo in the jaws of a colossal bear trap.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
  • Bolstad clarified that the colossal squid is not the same as the giant squid.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 16 Apr. 2025
  • These colossal murals stretch up to 100 feet long and soar 20 feet tall.
    — Maria Mocerino, Interesting Engineering, 29 Nov. 2025
  • But the colossal star can’t even get on the WrestleMania card?
    — Blake Oestriecher, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
  • Other video showed massive piles of debris as people climbed and searched around the colossal heaps.
    — Uriel Blanco, CNN Money, 26 June 2026
  • Other video showed massive piles of debris as people climbed and searched around the colossal heaps.
    — Osmary Hernández, CNN Money, 27 June 2026

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