Sentence examples for colossal length of from inspiring English sources
You hear Dylan, who wrote endlessly in the studio while his session musicians napped and played cards, hint at the colossal length of "Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands," the eleven-minute ballad to his wife, when he tells them, finally, "It's two verses and a chorus five times".
The Sunday Times's Dominic Sandbrook adopted a rather less subjective approach, calling the author's chronicle of the last eight years of Nelson's life "a sequel of colossal length, global sweep and great psychological acuity … At times his book, almost staggering under the weight of detail, is slow going.
At 14 metres long it looks colossal – but it's barely half the length of the "white demon" that scuppered the Essex.
O'Shea estimates that a colossal squid's mantle could grow up to 4 meters long, with a possible total length of 12 meters.
Fruit flies (Drosophila) have evolved colossal sperm cells that can reach lengths up to 5.8 centimeters, roughly 20 times the length of its body and about 1000 times longer than a human's.
The squid -- colossal is its species name, or more scientifically, Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni -- an estimated 990 pounds and 39 feet long, about the length of a school bus, took two hours to land in Antarctica's Ross Sea.
