Sentence examples for colossal distances from inspiring English sources

Given that these geese are used to flying colossal distances, there is usually very little fat on them, and the chest meat is very close-textured and dense, as is the leg meat, from heaving its not inconsiderable carcass up out of the water to its feeding grounds and back again.

Most sci-fi waves away the problem of the colossal distances between stars by appealing to magic, in the form of some kind of faster-than-light hyperdrive, hoping readers will forgive the nonsense in favour of enjoying a good story.But there are scientists, engineers and science-fiction writers out there who like a challenge.

Scientists are very keen to probe these colossal separations in time and distance because they will learn how the early Universe grew its structures, and that in turn will help them explain why the cosmos looks the way it does now.

Here, they rein them in perfectly, and reward you with a colossal chorus for staying the distance", while Nate Chinen, of The New York Times, feels that the release "upholds a deliberative truce between brute physicality and moody rumination".

Mr. Niles said Colossal Vision had hired a contractor to remeasure the distance between the billboard and the Lincoln Tunnel.

When, at the beginning of Act III, the action goes backstage, with the Met's own back wall towering in the distance, it's as if Lepage were expiating for the colossal claustrophobia of his "Ring".

The technology sector posted solid gains in response to a colossal merger that is to occur between the second and third largest long-distance phone companies in the U.S. Sprint and MCI will together be called WorldCom and will control 30% of the U.S. long-distance market, provide wireless phone services and the Internet.

Bernard Ebbers, who built WorldCom from a humble Mississippi long-distance firm into a telecommunications titan, was convicted Tuesday of engineering the colossal accounting fraud that sank the company.

CHARLEY: Colossal!

Big! Colossal.

"Expectations: colossal.