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How to use colossi in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word colossi? Here are some examples.

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Science and Reason were the new colossi which would sweep aside medieval superstition that kept us in darkness and ignorance.
And in their day, they bestrode the pop charts like two Antipodean colossi.
Hawass said that evidence at the site where the colossus was found suggests that more colossi could be found here, as a similar statue 5 meters in height was discovered there last year.
Traces of these colossi were first uncovered at the site during the execution of a development project aimed at controlling the subterranean water level on Luxor's west bank.
All that remains of the temple of Amenophis III are the colossi of Memnon, two impressive quartz monoliths that depict the pharaoh sitting on his throne, accompanied by the figures of his mother and his wife.
Here, directly beneath these colossi, you might meet Ozeaneum director Benke relaxing on one of the couches provided for ­museum guests, letting his thoughts wander.
Copper and bronze are, says Pliny, most famous for their use in statues including colossi, gigantic statues as tall as towers, the most famous being the Colossus of Rhodes.
Examples from Classical Literature
He cried to the colossi sitting in their plain, and to the yellow precipices of the mountains of Libya.
The Nile has sunk away from the feet of the colossi that it has bathed through many days.
There is no place that I know on the earth which has the peculiar, bright, ineffable calm of the plain of these colossi.
We loitered too long around the colossi of Memnon and the palaces of the plain.
About the feet of the colossi I could make out the creeping forms of beasts that laired in the once proud works of men.
I'll take you to the tombs of the Kings, and to the colossi when the sun is setting.
No time to study the features of the colossi, or to search for the grave of Major Tidwell.
Michael Angelo himself was under no illusions about these colossi.
We look, we search, and instead of the colossi, we find abortions.
The two colossi on the plain of Thebes are, of course, hard gritstone.
Two canary-coloured colossi have just deposited tea on a small table.
Where is this happy place, in which James Beattie and Nuno Valente bestride the Prem like twin colossi?
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