Sample Sentences for
leviathan
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    Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and the water boiled over the table rock with a roar.  (source)
    leviathan = sea monster (figuratively)
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    For not by hook or by net could this vast leviathan be caught,  (source)
    leviathan = something exceedingly large
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    But to the Japanese, the swift leviathans were terrifying, inspiring the graffiti that Louie had seen.†  (source)
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    Somewhere beyond that the groaning leviathan that is Zollverein.†  (source)
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    When last he'd seen Lordsport, it had been a smoking wasteland, the skeletons of burnt longships and smashed galleys littering the stony shore like the bones of dead leviathans, the houses no more than broken walls and cold ashes.†  (source)
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    Then the shadow became a dog, nose lowered to the mossy back of the leviathan as though scenting an old trail.†  (source)
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    We have to neutralize those leviathans.†  (source)
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    Will sensed a stir in Jim's house; Jim, too, with his fine dark antennae, must have felt the waters part high over town to let a Leviathan pass.†  (source)
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    When I read about those solitary leviathans, I feared I had stumbled on an allegory of my own life, that I would spend my life unable to make a connection, unable to find someone attracted by the beauty and urgency of my song.†  (source)
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    I wish to be a better man than I have been, than I am; as Job's leviathan broke the spear, the dart, and the habergeon, hindrances which others count as iron and brass, I will esteem but straw and rotten wood.†  (source)
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    The grease and chemicals that are poured into it undergo all sorts of strange transformations, which are the cause of its name; it is constantly in motion, as if huge fish were feeding in it, or great leviathans disporting themselves in its depths.†  (source)
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    Keeping his footing on the heaving deck by clutching the bulwarks, my brother looked past this charging leviathan at the Martians again, and he saw the three of them now close together, and standing so far out to sea that their tripod supports were almost entirely submerged.†  (source)
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    It lifts whales—huge leviathans and white jellies, what is amorphous and wandering; I detect, I perceive.†  (source)
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