Sample Sentences for

prodigious

(editor-reviewed)

a prodigious yawn  (source) C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, 1950

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

As she had seen him twice and he had different suits on each time, Maggie had a dim impression that his wardrobe was prodigiously extensive.  (source) Stephen Crane, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, 1893

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