Sentence examples for colossal toll from inspiring English sources
The colossal toll of deaths and injuries from road accidents 1.2m killed a year worldwide, and 2m hospital visits a year in America alone should tumble down, along with the costs to health systems and insurers.Driverless cars should also ease congestion and save fuel.
Recent events have brought home to governments and public alike the colossal toll terrorism can now take and its even greater potential once fanatics possess or, worse, learn to make nuclear weapons.
In June the European Union (EU) responded to the colossal toll of people fleeing war and poverty dying on its borders by launching an 11.8 million euro ($12.8m) per year naval mission.
It was Everest's deadliest day and hard to take in and yet it paled in comparison with the colossal death toll in the rest of the country, news of which was starting to trickle in.
With Jesu, Godflesh's pulverising industrial noise was recrafted as a machine of loving grace; 2007's Conqueror moved at glacial pace, Broadrick's colossal guitars tolling aching melodies, his serrated bark now a caressing sigh.
So let the details serve as a window on this brave new world, in which today's philanthropy threatens to become tomorrow's colossal carbon-capping toll coerced from all of us.
Gov. Jon Corzine of New Jersey has thrown in the towel in his four-month effort to persuade the State Legislature to reduce his state's colossal debt by sharply raising turnpike and parkway tolls.
"The destruction is colossal".
