How to Use monster in a Sentence

monster

1 of 2 noun
  • That car is a monster.
  • Inflation has become an economic monster.
  • And this monster can be a scary one.
    — Daniel Kendzior, Fortune, 31 Oct. 2025
  • Or will the monsters get in their way?
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 27 June 2026
  • There are monsters in your midst, too.
    — David French, Mercury News, 17 Sep. 2025
  • For one thing, there are monsters in the walls.
    — Megan McCluskey, Time, 21 May 2026
  • Let’s give the monsters a chance.
    — Noel Murray, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2025
  • These monsters are just fuzzy-creepy-cute.
    — Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Oct. 2025
  • Oh, and monsters come out at night to prey on them.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • Even hell doesn’t want those monsters.
    — Liza Lentini, SPIN, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Oh, and of course some kind of monster or ghost is added.
    — Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 28 Sep. 2025
  • And then there is the monster rearing its head.
    — Brooks Kubena, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
  • There have been a lot of monster movies out there lately.
    — Brian Tallerico, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2026
  • The monster needed to feel like that.
    — Brent Lang, Variety, 5 Jan. 2026
  • What if your mother isn’t a monster?
    — Rebecca Mead, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2025
  • This was the real monster all along?
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 31 Dec. 2025
  • Watch out for monsters under the bed.
    — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The monster has claimed its first victim.
    — Nick Caruso, TVLine, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Both were monsters on the boards and couldn’t be stopped at times inside.
    — Kels Dayton, Hartford Courant, 8 Apr. 2026
  • All those monsters will leave before dawn.
    — Richard Lederer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2025
  • And, of course, others see him as a freak or, worse, a monster.
    — Daniel Fienberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 June 2023
  • Yet lilac bushes can be monsters.
    — Beth Botts, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
  • Surf a 50-foot monster wave in Hawaii.
    — Jenny Odell, Longreads, 2 June 2026
  • Josh Hart was a monster on the boards with 15 of them.
    — Zach Harper, New York Times, 5 June 2026
  • The lake record is still a monster though, caught just a couple years ago on a wacky rig.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The news is the latest in a series of monster deals over the past few weeks.
    — Zev Fima, CNBC, 13 Oct. 2025
  • This wasn’t Daly’s first encounter with a monster score.
    — Tim Corlett, Forbes.com, 15 Sep. 2025
  • Where was mercy the night that monster ended my son’s life.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Where was mercy the night that monster ended my son’s life.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 6 Jan. 2026
  • The business includes three monster trucks used for rides and events.
    — Brandon Kochkodin, Forbes.com, 13 Sep. 2025

monster

2 of 2 adjective
  • The movie turned out to be a monster hit.
  • And then came the show’s monster success in streaming.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 4 Sep. 2025
  • The fourth line had a monster game against the Blue Jackets.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
  • But these are monster penalties that are not called consistently at all.
    — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 28 Nov. 2025
  • Ready thy spoons and clear some freezer space for a monster new flavor from Blue Bell!
    — Meghan Overdeep, Southern Living, 6 July 2023
  • Cooper Koch found monster success thanks to his latest project.
    — Dana Rose Falcone, People.com, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Do not even think of building any more monster buildings on what used to be a quite beautiful campus.
    — Letters To The Editor, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Well, that's what some people are doing for this monster doll from China called Labubu.
    — Julia Gomez, USA TODAY, 21 Mar. 2025
  • Someone in the mid-Atlantic will likely see monster snow numbers.
    — Bill Kelly, CBS News, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Her strength is in creating atmosphere, a change of pace for a monster genre that frequently thrives on high-octane thrills.
    — B.j. Colangelo, Vulture, 6 Oct. 2024
  • However, the sketch adds the layer that this is a ‘monster truck’ style commercial which elevates the sketch.
    — Rosa Escandon, Forbes, 15 Dec. 2024
  • One of the biggest changes reflects the idea that these new players prefer more monster options over D&D lore.
    — Rob Wieland, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
  • Hot disks of dust and gas swirling down the gravitational drains of monster black holes are what drive quasars, some of the brightest objects in the universe.
    — Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The film wastes little time getting to the action, which is great for kaiju fans who prefer less human yapping and more monster slapping.
    — EW.com, 8 May 2025
  • Keeping a lid on production allows Big Oil to reap monster profits at the expense of the driving public.
    — Robert Weissman, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
  • The Boroughs is not a frightening show, monster snack-time portrayals notwithstanding.
    — Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 31 May 2026
  • Flagg is perfect positionally within their potential long-term starting five as a real playmaking four with size and ball skills, along with monster defensive traits.
    — Sam Vecenie, New York Times, 12 May 2025
  • That’s a pretty monster performance that sets up Project Runway for a promising return to television with this Disney reboot.
    — Katie Campione, Deadline, 14 July 2025
  • Leveraged and inverse ETFs give investors the opportunity to make monster bets on the stock market’s direction.
    — Krysta Escobar, CNBC, 27 Feb. 2025
  • The Ducks are currently going through a somewhat monster renovation of the Honda Center at a cost of $1 billion.
    — Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2025
  • Warm water is the fuel that helps hurricanes sustain themselves and to occasionally become monster storms, so such unusually warm water is a major worry.
    — WSJ, 25 May 2023
  • After unleashing two monster stiff arms on defenders to break free, Canto-Osorio scampered along the left sideline and tried to beat the last defender to the pylon.
    — Greg Dudek, Boston Herald, 13 Sep. 2025
  • In his first full professional campaign, Holliday had a monster minor league season, climbing up the Orioles’ ladder and prospect lists at breakneck speed.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 20 Feb. 2024
  • West blew up his roster and traded key players such as Vlade Divac to create the cap room to offer O’Neal a monster seven-year, $121 million deal.
    — Mike Bianchi, Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2024
  • Parkinson stands 6-foot-7 and had monster red-zone production in 2025, which would offer a dimension that the Broncos haven’t had at tight end since the days of Julius Thomas.
    — Luca Evans, Denver Post, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Most monster planets are forged in catastrophe When Dong and her colleagues simulated what would happen if planets started out unusually large and kept growing into super-Jupiters.
    — Kiona N. Smith, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2025
  • American Airlines is allowing customers travelling to, through and from Charlotte to change their flight plans with no fee this weekend ahead of a potentially monster snowstorm for the Charlotte region and elsewhere.
    — Chase Jordan, Charlotte Observer, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Westbrook's 18-year NBA career has been defined by elite athleticism, relentless motor, and monster statistical performances.
    — Rowan Fisher-Shotton, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 Nov. 2025
  • The Athletic's Jim Bowden recently predicted the Blue Jays would re-sign Bichette on a monster seven-year, $189 million deal this winter.
    — Zach Pressnell, MSNBC Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2025
  • Climate change and monster storms Hurricane Allen’s shocking winds in 1980, before a noticeable trend of increasingly intense hurricanes was observed, are an important reminder that climate change does not directly cause monster hurricanes.
    — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 29 Oct. 2025

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