Sample sentences for VOLUMINOUS

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large in volume

The man in black shook the voluminous arm of his robe.
Stephen King -- The Gunslinger

His pants flowed voluminous and stripy down to a two-strap shoe.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
A leather strip encircled her brow, restraining her voluminous black hair, which tumbled behind her shoulders in a lustrous cascade.
Christopher Paolini -- Eragon
Her luggage was there and was not voluminous; Mrs. Touchett sat down a moment with her eyes upon it.
Henry James -- The Portrait of a Lady - Volume 2
From somewhere in the voluminous folds of his white overblouse, Daddy had produced a wooden kitchen match.
Stephen King -- The Shining
Beyond, in the main kitchen, the heavyset black woman in the voluminous muumuu was waiting for him.
Dean Koontz -- Sole Survivor
"Just getting something," I say, trying to hide the bucket behind my voluminous skirt.
Meg Cabot -- Queen of Babble
It took an enormous effort for her to set her voluminous, gelatinous body in motion.
Laura Esquivel -- Like Water for Chocolate
The Spaniard turning his back, with his voluminous coat-tails sailing, and his feet off the ground, floating bird-like up into the pin-point distance.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
The question hung fire for some years, the subject of voluminous correspondence.
Willa Cather -- Death Comes for the Archbishop
She was majestically tall and all but enshrined by a voluminous mane of golden blond hair.
Anne Rice -- Interview with the Vampire
Opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general confluence, and the river was proportionately voluminous and deep.
Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
It borrowed its splendor chiefly from the shining shoulders and profuse jewels of the women, and from the voluminous elegance of their dresses.
Henry James -- The American
In these voluminous notes Toll suggested another scheme, totally different from Armfeldt's or Pfuel's plan of campaign.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
A fragrant favorite involved saving up intestinal gas, explosively voluminous thanks to chronic dysentery, prior to tenko.
Laura Hillenbrand -- Unbroken
His coat was of light-weight cloth with voluminous revers, a long swallow-tail and large steel buttons.
Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables
She took a brisk but voluminous drag on her cigarette.
J.D. Salinger -- Franny and Zooey
She looked at me on the pole and in a voluminous voice—powerful, masculine, and incredibly loud—she bellowed, "What'ch you doin' up on that pole, man?"
Pat Conroy -- The Water is Wide
From their height, the city appeared as a series of gaps in the voluminous canopy, islands of calm in a restless ocean.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
The first thing she pulls out is a voluminous shawl.
William Gibson -- The Miracle Worker

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