How to Use kaiju in a Sentence

kaiju

noun
  • That plan never came to fruition, but that there was any talk of it goes to show what a natural match these various kaiju would be in a fight.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • The iconic kaiju has been causing chaos since the first Godzilla movie was released in 1954.
    — Christopher Rudolph, PEOPLE, 19 Apr. 2026
  • The possibility of kaiju battles was definitely what initially drew me to the show, but the humans have kept me hooked.
    — Los Angeles Times, 2 Jan. 2026
  • Although primarily a heady comedy-drama with a definite sci-fi slant, Colossal makes a pretty good kaiju movie out of its metaphors.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • King Ghidorah, one of the most famous kaiju in the series, appears, but in a way that’s so underwhelming it almost seems malicious towards the audience.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • As a high-functioning alcoholic whose outbursts manifest as a kaiju on the other side of the world, Hathaway delivers one of her most limber performances in the darkly comic Colossal.
    — Chris Feil, Vulture, 1 May 2026
  • It was announced he film will open February 18, 2028, and filming starts soon, but Sony did give a title treatment sizzle along with some flashes of some menacing looking kaiju robots fighting in a city.
    — Brian Welk, IndieWire, 13 Apr. 2026
  • In the movies where Godzilla is attacking Japan rather than defending it against a worse kaiju, the country is cast as a victim — understandably so, because originally the monster was an allusion to the bombings that ravaged Japan.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • There are interesting ideas in the anime trilogy, including this middle installment’s reimagining of Mechagodzilla not as a robot kaiju but a semi-sentient metal city that will do battle with an impossibly large King of the Monsters.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026
  • Arguably the first-ever cinematic kaiju, The Lost World’s brontosaurus is deserving of mention in any list of giant monsters for its historical stature, regardless of how tall the dino actually was compared to some of the other kaiju on this list.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Since its municipal establishment in 2018, Roku City has been a metropolis intermittently besieged by mythical creatures including a kraken, a big robot, and a Godzilla-like kaiju.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
  • While the stop-motion that brings Quetzalcoatl to life is impressive (Q is one of the last kaiju movies to primarily use stop-motion animation before CGI took over), the film almost has more of a slasher-movie vibe, as the dragon attacks New Yorkers out of nowhere and then hides in its lair.
    — James Grebey, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025

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