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Sentence Examples I could feel it in my bones that he was up against something stronger than his will and his prodigious intellect. Rupe has a prodigious memory and holds grudges, slights and wrongs long and hard. Symbols of erection, penetration, and prodigious sexual potency and regeneration are everywhere. He was nineteen when his mother died in 1821 and his boyhood experiences would colour his whole prodigious output of novels, poetry and plays. Despite the solitary nature of her profession, she was a prodigious socialiser and partygoer, usually being the last to leave. The consumption of the previous evening, prodigious by any standards, was exceeded nay, dwarfed by that which was to follow. This gives him momentum and sets him up for the moment of delivery, when his unusually supple wrists impart prodigious spin to the ball. He remained in his seat in Battery Park, staring straight ahead from between his wide-brimmed hat and his prodigious walrus moustache. In order to be visible at all at the huge distances implied by their redshifts, quasars must produce prodigious amounts of energy. Each of these factors doubtless contributes to our prodigious ability to learn. The way he asked for money put to use his prodigious talents as a preacher, a wheedler, a comic and a man in dire financial need. Alder Gulch, discovered in May 1863, rendered prodigious amounts of placer gold-arguably the most ever extracted from a single gulch. She was a keen fisherwoman, she loved and collected books, and she was a prodigious letter writer. Cabrera sat down in between prodigious hacks in the batting-practice cage and said he had a lot to learn. In the newly exposed waters and throughout the North Atlantic Ocean, plankton growth is prodigious. He has found a way to channel his prodigious, hallucinogenic imagination into a cohesive story line, to optimum results. Here's where the accelerated practice of offshoring creates a new and prodigious challenge. To fully equip every street in Britain with conventional wireless networking, would require a prodigious effort. Although this may sound like an old wives' tale, I have seen prodigious results from this experiment on several occasions. Worse, it's a prodigious eater, feeding on a variety of plants including oleanders, alfalfa, and almond trees. Show More Sentences Why is it that prodigious writers of pulpy, elaborate fiction spark such complete devotion? These early publications stand at the head of a prodigious and wide-ranging bibliography. She lopped a year off his age to make him seem even more prodigious to credulous Hoosiers. He was unique in England in his deep knowledge of contemporary German theology and was also a prodigious scholar of Syriac, Arabic, and Hebrew. In truth his indecipherability had more to do with his heavy dialect and the prodigious amounts of ganja that he smoked! Aristotle was an industrious collector who amassed a prodigious quantity of information on a vast variety of topics. Yet that prodigious concatenation of evils, which should be devastating, is not notably impeding the nation. He was a prodigious builder whose appetite for building was matched by his prowess in war. A prodigious waterfall comprised of magical water torrentially down poured upon Seres. This process, as can be seen by the previous Lexington example, burns a prodigious amount of fuel. They eat prodigious amounts of beetles that would otherwise bore into your desert trees. His own prodigious creative talent was fuelled by the stuff of the everyday. It is a prodigious warning to the privileged classes, rather than a means of liberation for the exploited classes. The producers would have done better to spend more time on its story rather than mistaking the opportunity to make a film as prodigious talent. Each section surveys the church across Africa, and draws together prodigious amounts of information. Francis in particular is a mightily impressive performer and he and Holt get through a prodigious amount of work in matches. Most importantly, you get to prance about in costume and consume prodigious amounts of liquor whilst meeting new people. Despite her failing eyesight she made prodigious amounts of lace tatting for her clothes, and for family and friends. Maier is among an estimated 50 people in the world recognized as prodigious savants whose abilities are as remarkable as their limitations. It is, of course, possible simply to use the time for drinking and eating to prodigious degrees, but that is to miss the very point of it all? Show More Sentences Until now 29-year-old Canonica has been remarkable only for his prodigious length off the tee. In 1449, she was expelled from the manor by Lord Moleyns's men, but not without a prodigious struggle. He would listen intently to his mother's lessons and as his prodigious talent became apparent she began to teach him, too. Considering his prodigious consumption of alcohol and drugs, this was no mean feat. Warner quickly seized the opportunity and immediately signed the prodigious talent. He's helped by a prodigious memory for names and places and a blotting paper ability to absorb ideas from philosophy, literature and pop culture. Best's prodigious talent drew the affection and awe of millions of fans and tributes to him poured in from across the football world last night. She has charmed the world with her prodigious talent and her level-headed approach to her growing celebrity. The languorously limbed trees droop into the water, often shedding their prodigious fronds, providing a sheltered habitat for fish. Not non-existent, just a tad light when compared to the prodigious talent and output of Lennon-McCartney. There are lots of guys out there now who aren't prodigious hitters of the golf ball but are wonderful shotmakers. Plenty of people have spent prodigious amounts of time teasing out that complexity-in-simplicity. The prodigious fund-raiser was admonished for creating the appearance that he was trading legislative favors for donations. His later output as a painter does not compare in momentousness with his pre-war work, but it remained prodigious in terms of sheer quantity. He swept the world with his prodigious DJing talents and made Montreal proud to foster a new generation of turntablists. In the intervening years we've been regaled by stories of his prodigious womanizing, which included frolics in the White House. In fact theirs is very much a superficial similarity, based on prodigious talent and youth more than anything else. A derivative of Japan's long samurai-manga tradition, it has the requisite tangled storyline and some thrilling, plasmic exchanges rendered with a prodigious brush. He took a prodigious amount of drugs washed down with booze. He fancies an American actor named Barrymore, but Barrymore, a prodigious drunk, soon storms back to Los Angeles. Show More Sentences He gives the whammy bar on his Stratocaster a workout on Gave You What You Wanted, and displays his prodigious piano technique on Swanee River Boogie. The exhibition is a striking reaffirmation of his prodigious talent. A Wall Street operator who was already in his fifties when he moved to London, Schechter is a prodigious talker, a showman and a financial wizard with a gift for innovation. The second hint is the prodigious torque output and low engine redline. The prodigious computer genius, who took his own life Friday at age 26, remains an enigma to those unaware of his many projects. Mother is a prodigious talker from a long line of verbal antecedents. After 1066 French-style castles and Romanesque churches were erected on such a prodigious scale that the mark on the English landscape can still be seen today. In one hand he holds an open book and with an prodigious index finger points to the victim with words in red Roman majuscules against the night sky. All of which adds up to superb straight line stability, taut handling through curves, improved roll control and a prodigious ability to soak up bumps and smooth out potholes. My sense is that Orwell had a head full of poems, most of them accumulated in schoolboy days and soon afterwards when he must have done prodigious reading. He has proven himself a prodigious master of the qanun, an 81-string Arabic zither, his dexterous plucking unlocking the instrument's potential to scintillate and shine. By the early 1950s Minton, with his private income, flamboyant personality and prodigious talent, was a celebrity in the mould of today's Britart pack. Yet it is no exaggeration to say this lanky Texan with prodigious talent fired a huge salvo in the thawing of the Cold War. The rule that a man might have no more than four wives at a time, but could change them when he liked, also suited Ibn Saud, who had a prodigious appetite for women. This is fortunate, because house wren nestlings have prodigious appetites. No biography of Jack Nicholson could long skirt the issue of his prodigious appetites. Indeed, after going to his reward, he has been publishing at a prodigious pace. Couple with its prodigious online presence, it has become a global brand to be reckoned with. He knows better than anyone the law of carnage and its prodigious repetitions in our time. The items in her paintings are chosen for their visual voluptuousness, as well as their capacity to provide her with instances to showcase her prodigious painting skills. Show More Sentences He is, after all, one of a kind when it comes to effective exploitation of a prodigious Rolodex. Who would have realised that his ideas would have a lasting influence from their prodigious outflowing in the 1920s right down to the twenty-first century? Only inexperience let the prodigious 16-year-old down when he was outsprinted by two senior riders after an ambitious lone attack was brought back. Many aspects of his prodigious career are treated in the tributes offered by his friends, fans and collaborators for this Festschrift assembled to honour his 70th year. A prodigious polymath, he wrote on subjects as varied as grammar and gout, ethics and eczema, and was highly regarded in his lifetime as a philosopher as well as a doctor. He skilfully worked the fringes of the rough created by the bowlers' footmarks and although never a prodigious turner of the ball, he does generate some spin. It was obviously a big blow, but we have a prodigious amount of young talent at this club and it will give somebody else a chance to come in and fill his shoes. I wasn't really in the mood to get heavily into the intellectual history, but there's plenty there to ponder, and a prodigious amount of research. To the boy's surprise, it spread a pair of tan and gold wings that were prodigious in size, which caused it to appear as if it were towering over him. I was commissioned to put together a 20-minute biographical assessment of the man, an assessment that was to include a tight encapsulation of his prodigious thought. But it unmistakably signifies that the icons of soccer fans nationwide are wallowing in such prodigious wealth that they can play ducks and drakes with money. In his biography of his father, Francis Deng deals frankly and in detail with Deng Majok's prodigious uxoriousness. It was so hot in this fever-swamp that his water requirements would be prodigious. Laffer has sired a prodigious number of children, six of them. Her memory was prodigious and nothing that ever happened to her in her life was forgotten. The fossil birds from Las Hoyas will be digitally brought back to life thanks to the prodigious possibilities offered by synchrotron imaging. His prodigious artistic talent won him a place at the Royal Academy schools at the unprecedented age of eleven. Another well-attended prodigious exhibition of some 140 exhibits of graduand project work. Giants are the monsters of human appearance but prodigious size and strength common in the mythology and legends of many different cultures. Again finding prodigious swing, he tempted Haddin to flash at an outswinger and a nick behind gave Jos Buttler the catch. Show More Sentences It's a prodigious effort that wouldn't be possible without our dedicated team of copy editors. Native Los Angeleno Billy Shire is best known as the prodigious owner of the Soap Plant and Wacko stores and La Luz de Jesus Gallery. Even with a six footer at the wheel, there's enough room in the back for all but the rangiest adults and the boot is a prodigious size. The space of ground taken up by a rich man's house is prodigious, the turfed roof forming a small field. Towards the last I increased the heat, and by that means produced a very turbid air, of which I collected a prodigious quantity. Sir Hugh interviewed the brothers and, impressed by their prodigious knowledge, commissioned the book. The spacial depths between the glittering threads of the web and the chef seemed abysmic and prodigious. He might have belonged to another realm. A prodigious learner, Hugo entered the University of Leiden when he was just eleven years old. In addition, mantle plumes may heat the lithosphere and cause prodigious igneous activity. They arise to a strange and prodigious multitude, if not indefinitude, by their various positions, combinations, and conjunctions. It is native to eastern North America, where it is the most prodigious and ecologically essential natural forest regenerator. In the 1970s Liberace is the brightest sequinned jewel in the Las Vegas entertainment crown, a talented, vain and paranoid performer with a prodigious sexual appetite. It was a new kind of bombast, and Luger was prodigious, supposedly averaging just 20 minutes to produce a beat, even if they were mostly variations on a theme. The upwelling of nutrients into the euphotic zone would stimulate prodigious blooms of phytoplankton, which attract zooplankton and other animals up the food chain. I consider him a prodigious nuisance and an enormous superstition. Thor rose from beside the rock with a prodigious whoof that roused Muskwa. The final gear change is phenomenal. His turn of foot prodigious. Small insectivorous mammals eat prodigious amounts for their size. Examples from Classical Literature After making prodigious havock in many other places, Alfonzo returned to Columbo with mach spoil and many prisoners. But it is his prodigious fantasy that makes the point of his departure from the Chekhovian formula. There is something rather stirring in such prodigious marshaling, but I hear you ask what this has to do with truantry. Still, that mountain, prodigious as it was, was nothing to the Pyramid of Cheops. And therefore also it is prodigious to have thunder in a clear sky, as is observably recorded in some Histories. The island of Sardinia has furnished a prodigious number of Phoenician seals. You observe, in both these specimens, the prodigious development of the organ of constructiveness. It is to the Infusoria that the mud of the Nile and other fluviatile and lacustrine deposits owe their prodigious fertility. But their budget of news was fairly prodigious, alike in range and quantity. He was as yellow as a harvest moon, he was fed on fish, and was of a prodigious fatness. This insolent question needed no answer, and Major Flint drove, skying the ball to a prodigious height. In Latin America hybridization has been prodigious, the hybrids to-day numbering millions. He was low and thick set, with a neck like a bull, and a frame of prodigious strength. His purpose in making this prodigious effort was to inspirit other nations to similar patriotic exertions. Built up and limbed as just described, our hero, as you may well imagine, must have been a man of prodigious bodily strength. Such a performance fairly earned for him his surname of thaumaturge, but this prodigious zeal has fallen off greatly. After a while, there came a fat woman, making prodigious speed, and stumbling as she ran up the steps of the shop-door. The traveller was short, but then his rotundity was prodigious. With this new residence came a prodigious change in our way of life. My department in the prodigious Enterprise already mentioned is to scour the United Kingdom in a gig, establishing Agencies everywhere. Show More Sentences After observing these lively indications for a while, I was attracted to a neighbouring grove by a prodigious squeaking which I heard there. Africa, that brags her foison, Breeds no such prodigious poison! She gaped, and leaned to one end of the sofa until, on the point of overbalancing' she recovered herself with a prodigious bounce. They had a huge meat pie before them and were washing down prodigious slices of it with nut brown ale. To-day his bank balance is prodigious, and all's well with the world. You well know that the loquaciousness of men is prodigious, tremendous. I was away from my native country, at a distance prodigious, and the return to me unpassable. He was at the same time attacked by aerophobia to a prodigious degree. The latter was a feeble child, and it was only by prodigious quantities of calomel that Lady Southdown was able to keep him in life at all. And I saw Sisyphus at his endless task raising his prodigious stone with both his hands. Satyrs are beastlike creatures frequently portrayed as part horse or goat and giving free reign to prodigious sexual appetites. There was a prodigious growth of ferns, lepidodendra, equisetace, conifer. Presently the tinker came to himself with a prodigious yawn, and reached at once for another drink. Although Froude was a prodigious worker in original archives, much more so than Freeman in fact, he was no Carlylian Dryasdust. The Huns were releasing prodigious quantities of poison gas. The hexahedron shape produces prodigious wound channels while preventing over-penetration, providing more shock to the target. In the echoing enclosure of the forest walls the noise was prodigious. She was always a prodigious friend of the Elmours, as I remember. I was conscious as I spoke that I looked prodigious things, for I got the slow reflection of them in my companion's face. His fecundity was prodigious, and he wrote at will in seven languages. Show More Sentences It made me hold my breath in expectation of hearing the wilderness burst into a prodigious peal of laughter that would shake the fixed stars in their places. I was assured that during one very dry and long summer, all the snow disappeared from Aconcagua, although it attains the prodigious height of 23,000 feet. When the painted canvas cover is clapped on the american line-tub, the boat looks as if it were pulling off with a prodigious great wedding-cake to present to the whales. Near it stood a set of prodigious tables, made of the wild cherry, to imitate the imported wood of the sideboard, but plain and without ornament of any kind. There were naturally things that in Flora's presence could pass between us only as prodigious and gratified looks, obscure and roundabout allusions. Rameau, who lived from 1683-1763, was a prodigious composer of opera, ballet, choral music and solo works for the harpsichord, as well as a definitive tome on music theory. In this chair, from one year's end to another, sat that prodigious bookworm, Cotton Mather, sometimes devouring a great book, and sometimes scribbling one as big. Peggotty, to relieve it, took two prodigious lobsters, and an enormous crab, and a large canvas bag of shrimps, out of his pockets, and piled them up in Ham's arms. But the greatest curiosity, upon which the fate of the island depends, is a loadstone of a prodigious size, in shape resembling a weaver's shuttle. That braggart horde was encamped but about three miles off, and were just then in high glee and festivity, and more swaggering than ever, celebrating a prodigious victory. Again we passed between those grass-clad prodigious cliffs, specked with wee dwellings peeping over at us from velvety green walls ten and twelve hundred feet high. He made up a prodigious quantity of soap-suds, deluged me with them from head to foot, without warning me to shut my eyes, and then swabbed me viciously with the horse-tail. I only set down these figures and these remarks to suggest the prodigious labor the carving of it so elegantly, so symmetrically, so faultlessly, must have cost. And who knows but that even this prodigious race of mortals might be equally overmatched in some distant part of the world, whereof we have yet no discovery. By the spring that gurgled among the redwoods grew another great wild lily, bearing on its slender stalk the prodigious outburst of white waxen bells. Grose immediately and violently entered, breaking, even while there pierced through my sense of ruin a prodigious private triumph, into breathless reassurance. And these people thought it a prodigious defect of policy among us, when I told them that our laws were enforced only by penalties, without any mention of reward. The gigantic stature, the prodigious strength and activity, the wild ferocity, and the imitative propensities of these mammalia are sufficiently well known to all. Sometimes they rose straight up out of the lake, and towered aloft and overshadowed our pygmy steamer with their prodigious bulk in the most impressive way. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of prodigious? Words that rhyme with prodigious What is the adverb for prodigious? What is the noun for prodigious? Translations for prodigious Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words prodigies prodigal son prodigally prodigality prodigal prodi prodigiously prodigiousness prodigious talent prodigy prodromal prodrome 10-letter Words Starting With p pr pro prod prodi prodig prodigi prodigio prodigiou