Sample Sentences for

prodigious

(editor-reviewed)

There is a prodigious fear of this court in the country—  (source) Arthur Miller, The Crucible, 1953

That is the most prodigious girl in this school!  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

Standing on this limb, you could by a prodigious effort jump far enough out into the river for safety.  (source) John Knowles, A Separate Peace, 1959

And so let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire.  (source) Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream, 1963

in the middle of a prodigiously tough snore  (source) Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol, 1843

"Superprodigious," Quentin whistled.†  (source) Homer Hickam, October Sky, 1998

the easiest and the quickest way to get the makings of the vicarage to the village was to hire a forestry barge at a prodigious thirty dollars a day.  (source) Margaret Craven, I Heard the Owl Call My Name, 1967

Stanley [prodigiously elated]:  (source) Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947

a prodigious variety of puddings, meringues, and cookies,  (source) Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, 1967

The crowd enjoyed this episode prodigiously,  (source) Mark Twain, The Prince and The Pauper, 1881

In the close quarters of an American nuclear family, their mother's prodigious energy was becoming a real drain on their self-determination.  (source) Julia Alvarez, How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents, 1991

they could feed prodigiously, and soon a few scattered bones were all that remained of the splendid live brute that had faced the pack a few hours before.  (source) Jack London, White Fang, 1906

I was ushered into a small room ... with a prodigious bed, almost big enough indeed for any four harpooneers to sleep abreast.  (source) Herman Melville, Moby Dick, 1851