The phrase "as a colossus" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone or something that is exceptionally large, powerful, or influential.
Example: "The company emerged as a colossus in the tech industry, dominating the market with its innovative products."
Alternatives: "as a giant" or "as a titan".
"Some may choose to think of it as a Colossus of Stratford, some eyes may detect a giant treble clef, a helter-skelter, a supersized mutant trombone.
In Britain, conversely, America's perceived failure as a colossus may have invited a new contempt: for an incompetent heir to Britain's imperial legacy.
Boudjellal, who was not mollified enough by victory to mute an intemperate rant against the referee Wayne Barnes, described Wilkinson as a colossus.
However fatuous and incorrigible the Turf's insistence on anointing each new champion as a colossus without precedent, you are on pretty safe ground in acclaiming Frankel as a thoroughbred at least to refresh the parameters of greatness.
The sight of Marilyn as the diamond-obsessed showgirl Lorelei Lee, "huge as a colossus doll, mincing and whispering and simply hoping her way into total vulnerability," enraged her.
The camera turns out to be a dubious ally as well, often swinging behind a rock just as a colossus lifts a massive paw to squish the lifebar out of you.
And appropriately so, for just as Scorsese is a colossus of the screen, so Selznick is emerging as a leading visionary illustrator set to impact the American – and, next, British – mainstream.
On Tuesday Lord Ashdown, the Lib Dems' former leader and 2015 campaign chief, released a joke press release describing Shapps as "quite simply a colossus", while footnoting that it had been "edited by Contribsx".
If there is, I'd like to think that at last I'll be able to stop second-guessing him, that finally I might for today at least feel as he does – a colossus hauled down to my level, a statue-in-waiting, the victim of a kind of mass mercy proxy patricide.
(It also didn't hurt that the bar had been set so low by the Conservative attack machine that he couldn't help but come off as a bit of a colossus just for, as PMO communications director Kory Teneycke put it, "showing up with his pants on").
I thought [defender] Phil Jones was a colossus today, as were the rest of them.
