How to Use colossus in a Sentence

colossus

noun
  • The building is a colossus of steel and glass.
  • Leonardo da Vinci remains a colossus in the history of art.
  • This has all been a colossus failure, and nobody wants to talk about that.
    — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 30 Jan. 2017
  • But statues like the colossus were cast aside because they were made from quartzite.
    — Declan Walsh, Orange County Register, 10 Mar. 2017
  • But if this colossus can really get there, its stock looks like a bargain.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
  • That phase of colossus creation appears to have ended long ago.
    — Quanta Magazine, 1 Feb. 2021
  • This colossus is surrounded by a corroded tin fence held up with bits of scrap wood.
    — Vince Beiser, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
  • There are a thousand ways a colossus like Microsoft can lose its way.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 20 May 2024
  • The colossus then seemingly froze in mid-air and started tilting to its side.
    — Anatoly Zak, Popular Mechanics, 9 Nov. 2020
  • For many years, Tiger Woods bestrode the golfing world like a colossus.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 10 June 2021
  • The network anchor no longer strode the media landscape like a colossus.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 7 Sep. 2021
  • Naming rights, of a sort, went to Nero, whose giant bronze colossus stood nearby.
    — John Seabrook, New Yorker, 1 Dec. 2025
  • There’s a wild male elephant lurking in this corner of the park, a colossus our team has mixed feelings about.
    — Paul Kvinta, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2019
  • On the field, though, that good-natured goof suddenly becomes a colossus.
    — Dave Skretta, ajc, 8 Feb. 2023
  • The Patriots entered their opener as a colossus, with not a care in the world.
    — Adam Kilgore, chicagotribune.com, 8 Sep. 2017
  • The regime has held fast to power despite — or because of — the enmity of the colossus to the north.
    — Steve Chapman, chicagotribune.com, 5 June 2019
  • The cross was Bald Knob Cross of Peace, a colossus more than a hundred feet tall.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 8 July 2019
  • Here are a dozen of the dopest office-appropriate options the footwear colossus has to offer.
    — Yang-Yi Goh, GQ, 15 May 2018
  • Early fears that the fast-food colossus would be overly brand conscious and dictate content were allayed.
    — Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • To see a possible way forward, just look at the emerging colossus of China.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2019
  • There is King Kong, colossus of the big screen, slowing waking on a mountainside.
    — Jake Coyle, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2021
  • So that at least gives the Heat a target, aware of how difficult a breakthrough can be against a colossus gaining steam.
    — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Avila is playing the long game believing that the progress made will scale across the colossus that is McKesson.
    — Peter High, Forbes, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The colossus of Cincinnati needs fresh thinking to stop the incredible shrink.
    — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 25 July 2017
  • The case centered on roughly 100 pages of legal-pad pages from the creation of a classic rock colossus.
    — CBS News, 6 Mar. 2024
  • Dunk is not the colossus of old Is age and fitness finally catching up to Lewis Dunk?
    — Andy Naylor, The Athletic, 16 Dec. 2024
  • Putin the Bond villain, the mastermind spy, the autocrat who bestrides the world like a colossus.
    — Michael Kimmage, The New Republic, 9 June 2021
  • The episode, written by Mazin, and directed by Kate Herron, is a colossus.
    — Kate Aurthur, Variety, 5 May 2025
  • In the regime’s view, the United States, an angry colossus, now stalked the Middle East.
    — Reuel Marc Gerecht, Foreign Affairs, 7 Sep. 2023
  • So did the makers of today’s colossus name their project after the 1940s initiative?
    — John Werner, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024

Some of these examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'colossus.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback about these examples.

Last Updated: