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  • The remains were so badly decomposed that it was impossible to determine exactly when McCandless had died, but the coroner could find no sign of massive internal injuries or broken bones.   (source)
    massive = very large in effect
  • He was a massive man, built like a bison, and he punched like a heavyweight.   (source)
    massive = very large
  • Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.   (source)
  • Her massive head turned on the muscular neck, looking in all directions.   (source)
  • An enormous man with a huge head and neck, and massive shoulders, sat behind the desk.   (source)
  • He was sitting in a bushplane roaring seven thousand feet above the northern wilderness with a pilot who had suffered a massive heart attack and who was either dead or in something close to a coma. He was alone.   (source)
    massive = very large in effect
  • The long trunk of his massive body bulged with muscles, and his skin, of the deepest ebony, was partially scarred upon his face and neck, as if by fire.   (source)
    massive = very large
  • A massive paw landed on its shoulders.   (source)
  • The Orleans Parish courthouse is a massive structure with intimidating architecture.   (source)
  • "Emile," the old woman continued, "built the most wonderful place, a massive pier using timber and steel he already owned."   (source)
  • Unless there is some massive breakthrough in stem cell research, Will is looking at another decade in that chair.   (source)
    massive = very large in effect
  • Pausing in the shadow of the massive doorway, he took a deep breath.   (source)
    massive = very large
  • Once again, Thomas looked in awe at the massive moving wall—it defied any sense of physics.   (source)
  • She skirted the edge of a massive cliff that overlooked a huge, black ocean.   (source)
  • I sighed with relief and found my eyes moving toward the doors of the massive room.   (source)
  • Her tongue, her lips were beginning to feel cold and numb, as though she had been given a massive dose of novocaine at the dentist's.   (source)
  • The school had been largely rebuilt with a massive bequest from an oil family some years before in a peculiar style of Puritan grandeur, as though Versailles had been modified for the needs of a Sunday school.   (source)
  • He was a powerfully built man, deep-chested, broad-shouldered, massive, and yet quick in his movements, springy and agile.   (source)
  • A massive and lethargic woman, who had been urging Daisy to play golf with her at the local club to-morrow, spoke in Miss Baedeker's defence: "Oh, she's all right now."   (source)
  • The massive stack of straw bales at the rear of the mow— directly beneath the hole in the roof—was covered with tarps in case it rained.†   (source)
  • During the past two centuries, such massive computation became the principal activity of this world.†   (source)
  • The big difference is that while space requires a massive amount of money, all that you need to get into cyberspace is a laptop.†   (source)
  • Alongside these conflicting norms about the value of blue-collar work existed a massive ignorance about how to achieve white-collar work.†   (source)
  • A massive explosion rings out, shaking the ground beneath them.†   (source)
  • I was facing a massive, fire-breathing monster and its mother.†   (source)
  • But I was in no way prepared for the massive skyscrapers, gorgeous beachside drives, and awesome monuments I saw on our initial trip in the country.†   (source)
  • So this tree, this sycamore tree, was up the hill on a vacant lot on Collier Street, and it was massive.†   (source)
  • The massive staff sergeant Frank Volkheimer comes down the narrow wooden stairs and ducks his head beneath the beams.†   (source)
  • "Every man Jack of us," said the last of the men, wide and bull-like, with a massive head.†   (source)
  • Massive internal injuries.†   (source)
  • In the nine days since announcing Mark Watney's survival, we've received a massive show of support from all sectors.†   (source)
  • "It would have meant gentrification and massive displacement of blacks," he said, "and I was determined to prevent that.†   (source)
  • A single bite from its massive jaw, one hard swat from its powerful paw, anything now would tip the balance and end this nightmare.†   (source)
  • She appears to be massively overworked.†   (source)
  • The second a kid's not where he's supposed to be, a massive alert goes off, and the kid can be tracked down immediately.†   (source)
  • The reason this sinkhole had done such massive damage to the school was that all the portables were connected by wooden walkways.†   (source)
  • Much of the thick, leathery skin along the trunk had come loose and crumpled in a heap about the massive foot: Señor Saguaro had lost his pants.†   (source)
  • Massive, that means large and heavy.†   (source)
  • My mom was just twelve, and she could barely wrap her arms around the massive board.†   (source)
  • The redbrick house sat behind massive Doric columns.†   (source)
  • More people leaped out of the windows of the north tower; then there was a massive roar as if the ground itself were opening its jaws.†   (source)
  • The dark and massive truck, lumbering into the night, and the woman in the red dress—a headless woman with a stunning figure, but with no arms—held around her hips by a child attached to a chain, or a dwarf.†   (source)
  • She froze, but as she did so, a massive wind shoved into her from behind, making her stagger into the room.†   (source)
  • I pause and peer out over the massive length of it.†   (source)
  • Reaching the end of the wreck, Bronwyn guided us carefully into open water, always keeping the massive door held out in front of us.†   (source)
  • His uncle was portly and balding, with a close-cropped yellow beard that followed the line of his massive jaw.†   (source)
  • He rolled onto his side and stared in disbelief: It was a shark, a massive shark —dirty gray on top and pure white underneath.†   (source)
  • I find a particularly fat clan dressed in garish yellow silk and awful feathers, all enjoying a massive cake.†   (source)
  • The Executives led them across the rock garden onto the large central plaza, which lay fronted and flanked by the Institute's massive stone buildings.†   (source)
  • It had jutting shoulders and a humped back, but then I realized these were its massive wings, bundled tight.†   (source)
  • It was not remarkable that Lord and Lady Marshall passed through my thoughts as I approached those massive twin guns in front of the museum, but it was a shock to see them coming down the steps toward me.†   (source)
  • Count Olaf ran, with the massive creature lumbering behind him, in the direction of the heavy metal gate.†   (source)
  • University High School included grades seven through twelve, so when school started in the fall, it was much more impressive and massive than anything either Sam or I had experienced in grade school.†   (source)
  • The boar lowers its head, hunching its massive neck and shoulders and swaying uneasily back and forth, making up its mind.†   (source)
  • Knowing the frenzied crowd was impenetrable, she barreled toward the nearest exit, the massive doors that led into the gardens.†   (source)
  • It said: Noted entomologist Shri Benaan John Ipe, son of late Rev. E. John Ipe of Ayemenem (popularly known as Punnyan Kunju), suffered a massive heart attack and passed away at the Kottayam General Hospital last night.†   (source)
  • Not many people died in the 1st Wave, the massive electromagnetic pulse that ripped through the atmosphere at precisely eleven A.M. on the tenth day.†   (source)
  • A quick change of magnification brought them into close focus—two massively real rockets thundering through the sky.†   (source)
  • Like Park had spent sixteen years acting weak and weird and girlie, and his dad had borne it on his massive shoulders.†   (source)
  • The troll lifted massive shaggy shoulders, its retractable claws sliding out with an ominous schiiick.†   (source)
  • I witnessed the buildings' collapse and the massive cloud of dust and debris that rose in their place.†   (source)
  • He handed out massive bribes to the Nazis in command of Auschwitz, all the while arguing that the women were "experts,"†   (source)
  • ALBUS: No offense, but I'd choose someone massive and really good at magic.†   (source)
  • But when she got close, Yitzchak shooed her away as if she were one of the chickens, waving his massive hands at her and saying, "Men-talk is not for young ladies."†   (source)
  • And yet somehow this massive, jam-packed church ceremony was springing up around me like a flash mob.†   (source)
  • been the massive, expensive mainframes of the sort sitting in the white expanse of the Michigan Computer Center.†   (source)
  • The dog has got its jaws around my calf, and I turn and that's when I see him, the regulator with the massive red face, eyes glittering, smiling—oh, God, he's smiling, he actually enjoys this—club raised, ready to swing.†   (source)
  • Flames had pierced one side wall, and the glare of the fire lighted the massive limbs and trunk of the vigorous old elm that had probably been planted the year the house was built, a hundred years ago at least.†   (source)
  • He's in the middle of throwing a pass, and it looks like he's about to get crushed by a massive man in a black and gold uniform.†   (source)
  • There's my friend Jeff, who keeps his odd hours and returns with suspicious amounts of undocumented fish that he stores in massive ice chests.†   (source)
  • Directly ahead, two thirty-foot-high gold griffins guarded a massive timber gate-recessed twenty yards into the base of Tronjheim-which was shadowed by thick trusses that supported an arched vault far overhead.†   (source)
  • For some reason, I look at the massive man and find myself saying, "I'm sorry.†   (source)
  • Its massive front door, through which two spirit-danes could have easily passed side by side, was locked.†   (source)
  • In its place there now stood a massive chair, upholstered in red and with designs carved thickly into its legs and arms.†   (source)
  • A massive biker dude stood nearby on the yard and looked at me while he tried to figure out his next move.†   (source)
  • But dwarfing it all was a massive range of mountains that hovered above and behind, like sentinels standing guard.†   (source)
  • The first task we were given was to clear a massive plot of land the size of a football field.†   (source)
  • Tom Weylin was tall himself, but too lean to be as impressive as his massive slave.†   (source)
  • Then the massive collapse, running like a long scar through the mountainous wing of the continent Aquila.†   (source)
  • A massive thesaurus sits beside a dictionary that's missing its hardcover spine.†   (source)
  • Jenny vacuumed like a fiend, determined to get up the bucketsful of Marley fur that had been falling out in massive clumps for the past couple of years, insinuating itself into every crevice and fold.†   (source)
  • But it simply clamped its huge, flat mouth down on one end of the trunk and twisted its massive neck.†   (source)
  • The massive building in the back was actually the Kaburenjo Theater—where the geisha of Gion perform Dances of the Old Capital every spring.†   (source)
  • There was a massive response to this offer.†   (source)
  • He led me a few feet through the tall, wet ferns and draping moss, around a massive hemlock tree, and we were there, on the edge of an enormous open field in the lap of the Olympic peaks.†   (source)
  • She listens to something about a heart attack, that it had been massive, that all attempts to revive him had failed.†   (source)
  • James is known, of course, as a master, perhaps the master, of psychological realism; if you want massive novels with sentences as long and convoluted as the Missouri River, James is your man.†   (source)
  • The massive pipe organ looks like a Disney-inspired explosion of sound, with six thousand flutes of Norwegian pine and Douglas fir teetering over the stage.†   (source)
  • Next, we stepped into a massive atrium, bursting with jungle leaves, vines tumbling down, branches climbing toward the sky.†   (source)
  • Troop carriers are the most massive of Radchaai ships, sixteen decks stacked one on top of the other.†   (source)
  • The ice coated the Torc Allta's chest and flowed down its massive legs and up his shoulders and head.†   (source)
  • The flames reached into the sky, pushing forth massive fists of smoke, swallowing everything in their path.†   (source)
  • They occupy a massive acropolis with fifteen giant columns atop the only high ground, overlooking the pond.†   (source)
  • The bedchamber was a large room made small by the four-poster canopy bed that sat as high as a carriage, two massive armoires, and a half-dozen men with red faces.†   (source)
  • Tante Jans was Mother's older sister and her presence lingered in the massive dark furniture she had left behind her.†   (source)
  • He intended to return to the city with a cargo of bananas, and shook his stick fiercely at the Congolese women who tried to clamber onto his massively loaded truck for a ride.†   (source)
  • A year after that their father died of a sudden, massive stroke which occurred while he was prepping a patient for surgery.†   (source)
  • The trains kept running, skipping stops near Saeed and Nadia but felt as a rumble beneath their feet and heard at a low, powerful frequency, almost subsonic, like thunder or the detonation of a massive, distant bomb.†   (source)
  • I had always imagined that my last day of the term at Central High School would be marked by a grand ceremony, with a massive choir singing hallelujah, or perhaps some wonderful award from my community—a parade maybe.†   (source)
  • We bit our lips and shook our heads each time a bit of roof or a bit of wall fell with a massive thump.†   (source)
  • The big armored vehicle rumbled to life, and slowly moved toward the head of a massive procession of armor heading out of camp and north of the city, into the open desert.†   (source)
  • Once in a primeval age all matter was gathered in a clump so enormously massive that a pinhead weighed many billions of tons.†   (source)
  • Outside the glass room, he had a setup much like Tuskegee's, with massive vats of culture medium, only bigger.†   (source)
  • Over the long, low row of pointed roofs were the massive shapes of oak trees in the dark, great swaying forms of myriad sounds under the lowhung stars.†   (source)
  • Valentine bent down and gathered up Jace; as he lifted him up lightly, Clary saw the impeccably cut jacket tighten over his arms and back, and she realized that he was a deceptively massive man, with a torso like the trunk of an oak tree.†   (source)
  • Two days into his senior year he had come home, dropped his massive North Face book bag onto the kitchen table, and said, "I can't do this."†   (source)
  • Mancuso frowned at his chart, nervous at being forced to pilot the massive submarine in so cavalier a manner.†   (source)
  • Massive amounts of steam pushed out into the changing room as the class of students before us came out.†   (source)
  • These programs are designed by Marietta and Marietta's superiors in massive week-long meetings on the top floor.†   (source)
  • When almost all the national industries were gradually shut down and businesses were beginning to go bankrupt, defeated by the massive importation of consumer goods, they said that Brazilian stoves, Taiwanese cloth, and Japanese motorcycles were superior to anything that had ever been manufactured in the country.†   (source)
  • Office space was at a premium all over the state, and massive new high-rise blocks were under construction.†   (source)
  • Doctor Mark Rogers, Director of Pediatric Intensive Care at Hopkins, coordinated the massive undertaking.†   (source)
  • To the right was the massive marble post office, where hours ago Henry Clay Ford had picked up the letter that he handed to Booth on the front steps of the theater.†   (source)
  • That was like having blood drawn on a massive scale—the suction, the sense of tissue collapsing and touching itself in a way it shouldn't, the nausea as all that was inside was pulled out.†   (source)
  • It had snowed massively all along the Norrland coast between Christmas and New Year's, and judging by the ridges and piles of snow thrown up by the ploughs, the road teams had been out in full force in Hedestad.†   (source)
  • The massive brown structure rose into the dusty sky and held the cross of Christ for all to see.†   (source)
  • Impressed finally by the massive support of his former comrades in arms, Colonel Aureliano Buendia did not put aside the possibility of pleasing them.†   (source)
  • Communications men hurried into the room with their equipment, began setting up near the massive fireplace.†   (source)
  • The local police mounted a massive dragnet, all of the principals were under close surveillance, yet there was no sign of him.†   (source)
  • They sat stiffly on a leather sofa, facing a massive desk.†   (source)
  • , and suddenly here it is: a black engine looming over us, shadowing the platform, letting out a hiss of steam like a massive panting animal.†   (source)
  • I had been impressed by the massive amount of smoke and gas the combination had produced, but I was confused.†   (source)
  • She was so discreet she'd never even asked him for an itinerary, so when Bree called from the hospital in Lexington she had not known how to reach him with the shocking news: David, running in the arboretum, had been stricken with a massive heart attack and died.†   (source)
  • Though I knew it was foolish, I somehow thought she'd come see me, she'd offer some explanation—or, better yet, a massive apology.†   (source)
  • It was a whole massive deception except the man showed up with three snakes instead of the agreed twenty-seven.†   (source)
  • It's really a stage, and arcing above it are massive metal plates that curl in different directions, like an exploded aluminum can.†   (source)
  • Annie came out of the library and down between the massive lions that guarded the steps to the street.†   (source)
  • Massive irrigation projects, built with public money to improve private land, brought water from hundreds of miles away.†   (source)
  • Two days before Christmas 2009, the Browns hit the road for Hot Springs, driving through a massive snowstorm on the way.†   (source)
  • Occasionally, a single mourner, dreaming of some vanished relationship, stood alone in adoration or revery before a massive memorial—but they mainly evinced, moving restlessly here and there, the democratic gaiety.†   (source)
  • He had no idea what was wrong with the man, except that he was obviously having some kind of massive hemorrhage.†   (source)
  • His eyes hold massive hope.†   (source)
  • I stood there, just gulping air and letting the throbbing in my head go away as I stared across a field of untouched snow to some distant oaks that grew along a massive stone and brick wall.†   (source)
  • THE MOSSY STONE WALLS and the massive gate of Empress Menen School gave it the look of an ancient fortress.†   (source)
  • My hair is white-blond, and so straight and flat, there's no way it would ever end in a curl without massive doses of hair spray.†   (source)
  • There were no windows in the outside walls, which were three or four feet thick, built of massive stones that ten men together couldn't have shifted.†   (source)
  • I could imagine those bloodshot eyes, set in that massive, scarred black face, sweeping over the sea.†   (source)
  • I'm just under this massive deadline, and I'm way behind, and I just knew I wasn't going to get to the shipping place before they closed†   (source)
  • Two weeks later, I found myself at the head of our massive conference table with all of Red Stevens' various relatives gathered around.†   (source)
  • I wanted to escape into them—especially Valium and Librium, which were little pleasure pillows that I knew would dissolve my massive stress, if only for an evening.†   (source)
  • The air was dank and musty—like the smell of wet blankets—and the massive stone walls were slimy to the touch.†   (source)
  • A massive burden.†   (source)
  • When they pulled up before the massive doors of the old prison on Castelar it was past midnight.†   (source)
  • She let her head tilt sideways, closed her eyes, and shook her massive trunk, letting the laughter fall like a wash of red leaves all around us.†   (source)
  • A low line of red still burned behind the massive bulk of Big Unaka, and the solemn purple mountains raised their peaks against it in a jagged line.†   (source)
  • The whistle shrieks again— TWE-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E-E— A massive engine explodes around the bend and barrels past, so huge and so close I'm hit by a wall of wind.†   (source)
  • Early on October 12, in an unexpected morning fog, a massive armada got under way on the East River.†   (source)
  • Its massive dome is impressive, even from here, but the tourists around me are snapping pictures of the gargoyles.†   (source)
  • There really is no relation between the massive accumulation of wealth in one part of the world and abject misery in another.†   (source)
  • As he seated me, I heard a slight groan as his crippled fingers lifted the weight of the massive wooden chair.†   (source)
  • There was another factor, meanwhile, that had greatly contributed to the massive crime drop of the 1990s.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart was drawn hypnotically toward the window with a massive, dull stare of moody introspection.†   (source)
  • It was like a postcard for the gentility, framed by a canopy of massive trees and surrounded by manicured grass.†   (source)
  • It twisted itself into something massive and black and sinuous that rose over Cal as he stood his ground, fighting to hold back his dog, who strained and barked like a mad thing.†   (source)
  • "You could use one of the burners," I suggest, pointing at the massive—and ancient—stove in the corner.†   (source)
  • The cracks between the massive stones were filled with tiny crumpled papers.†   (source)
  • A massive blacksmith's hammer flew to his hand from the opposite wall, its head a murderous wedge of dull black metal.†   (source)
  • Several police cars sped past, followed by a huge, strange-looking truck fitted with massive mechanical arms.†   (source)
  • They were massive.†   (source)
  • A massive fireplace commands the center of one wall.†   (source)
  • Massive men, their boots making the most stereotypically ominous storm-trooper noise, entered the Camp carrying restraints.†   (source)
  • I ran around the pond alongside a massive marble colonnade.†   (source)
  • "Over there," Mr. Bates said, nodding, and Jake and Harry Rex sat at a small counter not too far from the massive gas stove that was covered with pots.†   (source)
  • His mannerisms are unusually stiff, as befitting a man speaking before such a massive audience for the first time.†   (source)
  • He weaves a little as he rushes Beliel, who catches him under one massive arm and shoves him into a cart.†   (source)
  • May it last for thousands of years, Until this tiny stone will grow Into a massive rock, and the moss Will cover it deep and thick.†   (source)
  • I'd been crushing on Toby for three years, so to say he made me nervous would be a massive understatement.†   (source)
  • The Curious Diversity passed through an immense stone gate, bracketed by two equally massive statues.†   (source)
  • The rector had chosen for his pulpit a massive outcropt of limestone, weathered into the shape of an arch.†   (source)
  • World War II: Unit 731 of the Imperial Japanese Army directs biowarfare on a massive scale against China.†   (source)
  • On Saturday, May 19, 100,000 cheering people crammed themselves into the Chicago Loop for a massive rally.†   (source)
  • She rolled her eyes and dug her car keys out of her massive purse.†   (source)
  • Leonardo—he's this massive, and oddly attractive ....I don't know.†   (source)
  • Twaha strode seriously away and returned with a massive ash-colored animal with nobly curving horns.†   (source)
  • Spire vultures are massive birds with five-inch talons and wingspans that clear twenty feet.†   (source)
  • Her parents were in charge of a massive ongoing study meant to determine when, if ever, it would be safe for humans to return to Earth.†   (source)
  • So the census data do not provide evidence of a massive shift away from English acquisition, the first step in becoming assimilated.†   (source)
  • Just as Galileo and Newton explain in their theories of free fall, the least massive and most massive riders fall to the earth with the same rate of acceleration.†   (source)
  • On the anniversary of Pearl Harbor, Auntie Braxton suffered a massive stroke and was rushed to the hospital by ferry in the middle of the night.†   (source)
  • I have since read Aristotle again, looking for the massive evil that appears in the fragments from Phaedrus, but have not found it there.†   (source)
  • Two huge women with spoiled-cream complexions seemed to struggle with their massive bodies as they came past, their flowered hips trembling like threatening flames.†   (source)
  • Her throat was swollen, the flesh a reddish purple, the massive bruise having spread throughout her neck.†   (source)
  • But they hadn't anticipated the massive iron shutters the Tappans had installed outside-which, when closed and locked, made the store as impervious as a bank vault-or Arthur and thirty of his clerks armed with muskets.†   (source)
  • The government was then engaged in a massive effort to make a success of its separate development policy, and "quasi-independent" homelands.†   (source)
  • The quig crouched a few feet away, swaying its massive head.†   (source)
  • As the massive pot keeled over, steel magma at a temperature of more than 2,700 degrees poured out uncontrollably.†   (source)
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