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• Upon touring the mine, they found it to be a veritable canyon with some monstrous Cats trundling in the background.From the entry cat
• Because grammatical dependencies cannot cross quotation marks, whereas in monstrous agreement they do.2020, Rahul Balusu, “The Quotative Complementizer Says “I’m too Baroque for that””, in Bhamati Dash, Gurmeet Kaur, editors, Proceedings of…. From the entry monstrous agreement
• The monstrous and awesome shoebill is possibly the most bizarre bird on the African continent.2014, Jamie Frater, Listverse.com's Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Lists, page 605. From the entry shoebill
• Freedom from all defects and imperfections, diseases, and distempers, infirmities and deformities, maimedness and monstrous shapes.2014, Thomas Bolton, The Four Last Things: Death, Judgement, Hell, and Heaven. From the entry maimedness
• The monstrous thought of going to the Camp Mother occurred to her ("Did you hear about Betsy?2014, Shirley Jackson, Just an Ordinary Day, →ISBN. From the entry camp mother
• But those monstrous nonbiodegradables are killing me, and not softly either.2009 March 3, “It’s Not Easy Being Clean”, in New York Times. From the entry nonbiodegradable
• I saw in astonishment that Nekbael flew along the dim hallway on monstrous bat wings.2003, W. C. Leadbeater, “Return of the Dread Mutant Killer Glaucoma”, in The Mind-warp Era: A Novel, Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse, →ISBN, page…. From the entry pulse-pounding
• As they approached the clifflike walls of Black Harren's monstrous castle, Brienne squeezed his arm.2000 August 8, George R[aymond] R[ichard] Martin, “Jaime [Lannister]”, in A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire; 3), London: Voyager…. From the entry clifflike
• In English folklore, a barghest is a monstrous dog with huge claws and teeth.1999, Charles Edwin Price, Mysterious Knoxville: Ghost Stories, Monster Tales, and Bizarre Incidents from the “Gateway to the Smokies”…. From the entry barghest
• Get another one, he says -- Jessica is about the same monstrous height.1995 April 13, Stubborn Wench, “B&B: Rogue Updates”, in rec.arts.tv.soaps.cbs (Usenet), archived from the original on 06 Aug 2026. From the entry fingerprintie
• This gives us something that resembles a gothicized Sixteen Candles or a monstrous Pretty in Pink.1990 December 16, Michael Bronski, “Cutting Up”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 22, page 20. From the entry Gothicise
• Noise grew everywhere — radios, monstrous tape decks, the fartings of untuned engines.1989, William H. MacLeish, The Gulf Stream. From the entry farting
• The body was that of a monstrous python, undulating through the water.1987, Piers Anthony, Out of Phaze, Ace/Putnam, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry snakeman
• Zod: n. something really weird or totally monstrous; worse than a nerd, a yuck out.[1982, Mary Corey, Victoria Westermark, “zod”, in Fer Shur! How to Be a Valley Girl-Totally!, Toronto, O.N. […]: Bantam Books, →ISBN, page…. From the entry zod
• The lusca, he said, was a terrible creature, like a monstrous octopus or cuttlefish.1970, National Geographic. From the entry lusca
• It had only horror, because I knew unerringly the monstrous, nefandous analogy that had suggested it.1931, H.P. Lovecraft, At the Mountains of Madness. From the entry nefandous
• Something like "supermonstrously monstrous” would be an exact equivalent in form, as intensely ugly in meaning.1916, Neophilologus: A Modern Language Quarterly, page 227. From the entry supermonstrously
• To what monstrous inharmony of death was it the visible prelude?1909, Ambrose Bierce, “What I Saw of Shiloh”, in The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Vol. I. From the entry inharmony
• It was like tag, but bigger and more monstrous.2023, Colson Whitehead, Crook Manifesto, Fleet, page 56. From the entry ringolevio
• Interestingly, not all speakers accept the monstrous agreement pattern.2021, Mikhail Knyazev, “Inter-Speaker Variation and Construction-Specific Restrictions on Indexical Shift in Poshkart Chuvash”, in Julia…. From the entry monstrous agreement
• Sixty-three-year-old Tallulah Bankhead joined the British studio’s monstrous regiment as the religious fanatic who terrorises her dead son’s girlfriend in Die!2018 January 18, Anne Billson, “'Hagsploitation': horror's obsession with older women returns”, in The Guardian, archived from the…. From the entry Bankhead
• Available in the lobby!” (monstrous, plaintive moaning) “That's it.2017 September 4, Jeff Kauffmann, “The Talented Mr. Dingleberry” (17:28 from the start), in American Dad!, season 14, episode 21, spoken…. From the entry poultice
• Like Silenus, the comically monstrous box contained good advice and wisdom, its drunken exterior belying its profound interior.2016, Joseph Campana, Renaissance Posthumanism, page 101. From the entry silenic
• The monstrous three-layer hot-milk cake spilled off our plate.2016 January 24, Suzanne Loudermilk, “Ignore decor, and enjoy the food, y’all”, in The Baltimore Sun, 179th year, number 24, Baltimore…. From the entry hot-milk cake
• Crushed smaller than a dust mote by monstrous gravity, as astronomers and science fiction writers have been telling us for decades?2013 August 13, Dennis Overbye, “A Black Hole Mystery Wrapped in a Firewall Paradox”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York…. From the entry dust mote
• Not simply a monstrous and spectacular eyesore, it was a place of immense power, a vortex sucking everything into itself.2005, Maria M. Tumarkin, Traumascapes: The Power and Fate of Places Transformed by Tragedy. From the entry traumascape
• That, of course, is the sole province of the tribrows like myself, monstrous offspring of a monobrow and bibrow parent.2003 January 26, Peter Ellis, “Re: [I] Is Long, Was Bowling for Columbine”, in alt.fan.pratchett (Usenet). From the entry bibrow
• On the grounds of Rotherwood Mansion in Kingsport, a monstrous black dog is said to roam, howling mournfully.1999, Charles Edwin Price, Mysterious Knoxville: Ghost Stories, Monster Tales, and Bizarre Incidents from the “Gateway to the Smokies”…. From the entry barghest
• But Sade's ethnographic subrealism exceeds Marx's historical analysis, supplementing Marx's theoretical enterprise with a monstrous form of critical literary engagement.1999, Deepak Narang Sawhney, Must We Burn Sade?, page 69. From the entry subrealism
• Paris put fear into him, a city of monstrous size to which London was but a market town.1993, Anthony Burgess, A Dead Man In Deptford. From the entry ambages
• So arrayed I stepped at last from my door and was saluted as before by my monstrous ostiaries.1987, Gene Wolfe, chapter XXV, in The Urth of the New Sun, 1st US edition, New York: Tor Books, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 149. From the entry ostiary
• There was something monstrous about his self-abnegations.1922, Coningsby Dawson, chapter 4, in The Vanishing Point, New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, page 149. From the entry self-abnegation
• Hence such an expression like something supermonstrously monstrous would be the nearest equivalent, however strange it may appear.1917, Henri Logeman, A Commentary, Critical and Explanatory, on the Norwegian Text of Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt: Its Language, Literary…. From the entry supermonstrously
• For a moment she was lost in the pursuit of an unseizable clue--the explanation of this monstrous last perversity of fate.1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country. From the entry unseizable
• "It is monstrous - grotesque." "But what made him draw such an animal?" "Trade gin, I should think."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry trade
• We all stopped to examine that monstrous spoor.1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry spoor
• It was monstrous to have been called a snob.1911 October 26, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson, or, An Oxford Love Story, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: John Lane Company…. From the entry misalliance
• I feel as if my hands were embrued with the blood of monstrous alien altars—of another faith altogether.1903 September 28, Henry James, The Ambassadors, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC. From the entry imbrue

Meaning of monstrous

1. adjective Hideous or frightful.
2. adjective Enormously large.
3. adjective Freakish or grotesque.

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Questions about monstrous in a sentence

How do you use monstrous in a sentence?

Monstrous is used as an adjective. For example: “Upon touring the mine, they found it to be a veritable canyon with some monstrous Cats trundling in the background.”

What is a short sentence with monstrous?

“a monstrous height”

What does monstrous mean?

Monstrous means hideous or frightful.