How to Use monstrosity in a Sentence

monstrosity

noun
  • Did you see the new mall? It's a monstrosity.
  • Those big, blue monstrosities that are hanging around the house?
    — Cindy Dampier, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Protein bars have come a long way from the chalky monstrosities that lined shelves not long ago.
    — Nicholas Florko, The Atlantic, 22 Feb. 2026
  • Protein bars have come a long way from the chalky monstrosities that lined shelves not long ago.
    — David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Three adults could have split this monstrosity and walked away happy.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • What could be better than fighting off hordes of alien monstrosities?
    — Fran Ruiz, Space.com, 6 Oct. 2025
  • There had to be a visible bit of egg white on this egg-yolk monstrosity.
    — Vulture, 18 Oct. 2022
  • The center field wall and video board is a bit of a monstrosity One perk?
    — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 2 Apr. 2020
  • But by far their biggest draw was a caloric monstrosity the likes of which has never been seen.
    — Sebastian Montes, Pomerado News, 1 June 2017
  • The squat monstrosity had a spring-lever arm to launch clay disks, replicating a bird’s flight.
    — Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
  • This is mainly because the hulking monstrosity is more a tank than a car.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The lawyer spots a wind turbine and asks Tommy what is this monstrosity.
    — Stephen Rodrick, Rolling Stone, 9 Mar. 2025
  • There was no shortage of irony in the creation of this legal monstrosity.
    — Jay Stooksberry, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Such monstrosities, we were told, were merely the birth pangs of a new and mostly peaceful nation.
    — Mark R. Weaver, Newsweek, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Harvey’s fearsome white mass filled the panoramic view – a monstrosity of wind and rain.
    — Sarah Kaplan, sacbee, 28 Aug. 2017
  • The only shortage was in the supply of soldiers, who were but cogs in the monstrosity of it all.
    — Partner Content, Variety, 29 Dec. 2022
  • And so was the Kennedy Center in its monstrosity.
    — Classical Music Critic, Los Angeles Times, 3 Feb. 2026
  • But the way to fix this is not merely to turn back the hands of time and purge our collective memories of such monstrosities.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • No, the medical bed, that monstrosity smack-dab in the middle of her bedroom, had sealed her fate.
    — Literary Hub, 19 Sep. 2025
  • Athena is in a pink monstrosity inspired by To Wong Foo.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 31 Jan. 2026
  • Both are remarkable, as artists, and as people who build beautiful monstrosities in the desert.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 2 July 2024
  • The walking parts of the financial system walked away from the monstrosity of the system.
    — Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 3 Nov. 2024
  • Véra’s presence kept the fiction in place, and Humbert’s monstrosity at bay.
    — Stacy Schiff, The New Yorker, 5 Mar. 2021
  • In defense of my actions, as a general rule, mother-of-the-bride dresses are evil monstrosities.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Its chief attraction is the chance to see, in person, this last remnant of the Whitechapel monstrosity.
    — Nicola Twilley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Gateway has a funding crisis because there is not a cent of local money in this monstrosity.
    — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 6 Feb. 2026
  • This visitor-repellant monstrosity was an anachronism when new and got worse over time.
    — Dp Opinion, Denver Post, 2 May 2026
  • That lack of knowledge begins to feel like a lack of control, and that can be maddening enough to turn into a kind of monstrosity.
    — Phillip MacIak, WIRED, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Evans includes drone footage of the outsize fruits of his profit, a jaw-dropping monstrosity otherwise known as a house.
    — Sheri Linden, HollywoodReporter, 12 Mar. 2026
  • But each new revelation also exposes the reach of the shadows, the scale of the monstrosity, the depth of the lie.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017

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