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How to use monstrosity in a sentence

11 example sentences · noun

Monstrosity means an organism showing abnormal development or deformity. Example: “The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.”

Examples of monstrosity by meaning

nounA monstrous person, thing, or act.

  • St Enoch Centre (1989) - a glass-domed monstrosity of a shopping centre - stands on the site of the station today.2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost”, in RAIL, number 979, page 51

More sentences with monstrosity

  • The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.From the entry adapter
  • The Garden of Earthly Delights is full of earthly joys alongside grotesqueries, monstrosities, and torture.From the entry earthly
  • If they build that monstrosity then it will be right in our view every time we look out our windows.From the entry in someone's view
  • From my living room, I trained my binoculars on the redbrick monstrosity catercorner from me.2012, Stephen King, chapter 20, in 11/22/63, page 531. From the entry cater-corner
  • We can't tinker with this tax code monstrosity or try to reform around the edges.2011, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means, Impediments to Job Creation: Hearing Before the Committee on Ways and…. From the entry drive a stake through its heart
  • She'd been picturing some Gormenghastian monstrosity, a mass of dark stone and hulking, spiked towers.2006, Django Wexler, Shinigami. From the entry Gormenghastian
  • We perceive the bird and frog views simultaneously, although what hybrid monstrosity we become in the process is not clear.2016, Garfield Benjamin, The Cyborg Subject: Reality, Consciousness, Parallax, →ISBN, page 168. From the entry frog view
  • In the alien, most of the crew sees an invincible monstrosity bent on violently compromising each and every one of them to a permanent end.2024 October 30, Jalen Maki, “Movies You Gotta See: 45 years later, ‘Alien’ remains a titan of sci-fi horror”, in Green Bay Press Times…. From the entry compromise to a permanent end
  • Among other monstrosities in this lumber room was a largeish black japanned box, excellently and ingeniously made some sixty or seventy years ago, and fitted with every imaginable object.1928, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, chapter XI, in Lady Chatterley’s Lover, [Germany?]: Privately printed, →OCLC, page 241. From the entry japan
  • I like to think that Old Grandma Sperm Whales tell bedtime stories to the little whalings all about the deviousness and monstrosity that humankind used to inflict upon their ancestors.2009, plasticactus.livejournal.com/1924.html?thread=4228. From the entry whaleling

Meaning of monstrosity

  1. noun An organism showing abnormal development or deformity.
  2. noun A monstrous person, thing, or act.
  3. noun The state of being monstrous.

Full definition of monstrosity

Questions about monstrosity in a sentence

How do you use monstrosity in a sentence?
Monstrosity is used as a noun. For example: “The wall outlet sprouted an electrical monstrosity of adapters plugged into adapters that sparked ominously.”
What is a short sentence with monstrosity?
“From my living room, I trained my binoculars on the redbrick monstrosity catercorner from me.”
What does monstrosity mean?
Monstrosity means an organism showing abnormal development or deformity.

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