Sentence examples for backbone of a giant from inspiring English sources

In the distance the mountains undulate as though forming the backbone of a giant beast that has laid down to sleep and might at any point awake and stand up several miles high, shaking off the vines and trees like pieces of fluff caught on its felt green jacket.

Unapologetically designed both to inform and affect, Gabriela Cowperthwaite's delicately lacerating documentary, "Blackfish," uses the tragic tale of a single whale and his human victims as the backbone of a hypercritical investigation into the marine-park giant SeaWorld Entertainment.

In November, German technology giant Siemens Corp. and the utility giant RWE said they would jointly build the IT backbone of a mass-market virtual power plant that will coordinate hundreds of megawatts' worth of distributed energy projects such as wind and solar farms.

The collapse of a giant buy-out?

Tom has the backbone of a chocolate éclair.

This national core reference data will then be the backbone of public sector information and the backbone of a data revolution led by Britain.

However, it formed the backbone of a series of other products that remodel tissue.

Corey Enright, Lachie Henderson and Harry Taylor formed the backbone of a defensive unit the Dogs rarely found a way through.

"And ethnic groups were the backbone of a lot this stuff".

1. Rail is the backbone of a public transport network.

Nightlife is the backbone of a city.