Sentence examples for colossal spike from inspiring English sources
The opening of iTunes Stores in 52 countries including Russia led to a colossal spike - 939,000 detections per day.
Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive who under Steve Jobs drove the operational side of the business - and built up its supply systems so that it could cope with colossal spikes in demand like the weekend's - expressed his delight.
Geraniums, irises, roses and nasturtiums bloom in front of the houses, and turkeys forage on hillsides studded with cactuses and maguey plants, a member of the agave family that produces a flower spike resembling a colossal asparagus.
Tony Blair's classic, the Millennium Dome – a place that, if my 16-year-old memory serves me correctly, was sort of like a Butlins big-top designed by Jon Tickle – cost over £1billion in today's money and proved to be nothing more than a colossal waste of time, money, white plastic and yellow spikes.
The Surrealist movement is represented by some of the most potent works in the exhibition: Salvador Dalí's illustrated edition of Alice, and the finest painting in Dorothea Tanning's oeuvre, the eerie Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, with sunflowers bursting colossal tentacles around the little girl with her hair on end in spikes of flame.
"The destruction is colossal".
"There's nothing colossal".
