Sample Sentences for
massive
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    The markets panicked as massive losses piled up during the financial crisis.
    massive = very large
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    Finally it tilted its massive head, raised its trunk, and roared into the empty landscape.  (source)
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    Her massive head turned on the muscular neck, looking in all directions.  (source)
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    Massive doors slide open revealing the crowd-lined streets.  (source)
    Massive = very large
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    She appears to be massively overworked.†  (source)
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    The harsh fluorescent light, falling straight down on her, turns her eye sockets to caverns, emphasizes the descending lines from nose to chin; but the massiveness of her body makes her head look like an afterthought.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    An enormous man with a huge head and neck, and massive shoulders, sat behind the desk.  (source)
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    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)
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    The INSPECTOR need not be a big man, but be creates at once an impression of massiveness, solidity, and purposefulness.†  (source)
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    A dead rooster was hanging from one of his massive, gloved hands.  (source)
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    The waggoner, throned aloft, rolling massively in his seat, was not so much below Paul's eye.†  (source)
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    Occasionally the ground beneath my feet shook from some faraway pounding and I felt that this world, despite its massiveness, was somehow dangerously fragile.†  (source)
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    A few seconds later, he arrives at a pair of massive wooden doors set into the cavern's rocky wall.  (source)
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