Sample Sentences forformidable (editor-reviewed)
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She is a formidable opponent.formidable = intimidating or impressive
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The challenge is formidable.formidable = intimidating
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Why they objected to Miss Maudie's yard was a mystery, heightened in my mind because for someone who spent all the daylight hours outdoors, Miss Maudie's command of Scripture was formidable. (source)formidable = impressive or intimidating
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But now they were on the far side of one of the enemy's most formidable groups; they had, with terrible losses, passed through. (source)formidable = intimidating or powerful
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This accomplished, the outfit, though cut in half, was still a formidable bulk. (source)formidable = intimidating or impressive
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Know then, O my formidable guest, that because of my extreme poverty I have never married and have no child. (source)
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"But we have formidable aviation," the corporal said. (source)formidable = intimidating or impressive
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Mrs Which's voice rolled formidably across the hall.† (source)
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She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind—or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.† (source)standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unformidable means not and reverses the meaning of formidable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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When I finally could look up and my eyes could focus, Pig had entered that first sinister position of karate, and Mark stood facing him, resolute and dangerous, in a boxer's stance of at least equal formidability.† (source)
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Magnified by its lift against the sky and by the soldier's testifying sense of the formidableness of a near enemy, the group appeared of heroic, almost colossal, size.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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She was both formidable and vulnerable, (source)
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Now his practice has become formidably wet.† (source)
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He also was trembling, like Paris, on the brink of an obscure and formidable revolution. (source)
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They could not understand; and suddenly the calm sea, the sky without a cloud, appeared formidably insecure in their immobility, as if poised on the brow of yawning destruction.† (source)
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That formidable seafaring man with one leg has at last gone clean out of my life; (source)
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