Sentence examples for colossus could be from inspiring English sources

At least 10 machines were in operation by the war's end, but only one more Colossus could be produced in time for the Allied invasion of Normandy, on June 6.

Bletchley mathematician Bill Tutte discovered a pattern in the encrypted messages that, with the help of Colossus, could be used to unscramble them.

The first 40-foot-tall, $350,000 colossus could be turning its 50-pound blades by February, Holmes said.

"Iron Colossus could be RMC's most epic project of all time," Hart wrote on his well-respected theme park industry website.

Each Colossi could be described as a 'level' unto itself, the goal being to work out how to traverse, weaken and ultimately destroy these enormous, powerful and beautiful beasts.

Some have even suggested that the "high five" element introduced at China's Happy Valley park – where the riders on dueling trains reach out toward each other as the tracks tilt inward – could be added to Colossus.

For the last four years, the stately halls of the Central Secretariat buildings, the two sandstone, hilltop colossuses that house India's government, could be relied on for a skeptical view of Pakistan's president and America's ally, Gen. Pervez Musharraf.

It was expected to reignite the controvesy that first raged when the museum signalled last year that it had begun to doubt that The Colossus could have been painted by the deaf Spanish genius, who died in 1828.

With the implementation of the Colossus in 1944, a huge number of German messages could be decoded in a timely fashion.

Tendulkar was the diminutive colossus who showed his countrymen that an Indian, too, could be the world's best.

Although Colossus was designed to perform specific cryptographic-related calculations, it could be used for more-generalized purposes.