Sentence examples for formidable proportion from inspiring English sources

A formidable proportion expressed migratory inclinations in our study.

Joey Maramba growled and bowed his bass to formidable proportions, driven on by Deantoni Parks' drumfire.

The disadvantage of a comparatively unknown candidate in a national primary is a drawback, but one of less than formidable proportions.

One of those clinging by a thread is Send.com, a tiny Internet gift company that a year ago unleashed an advertising blitz of formidable proportions.

All told, no matter what the Surgeon General said about the malign effects of cigarette smoking, the opposition to the regulation of cigarette advertising was of formidable proportions.

It is a crane of formidable proportions that was built and is now operated by Kiewit Offshore Services.

This latest work by contemporary Russian satirist Sergei Dovlatov firmly establishes him as a wry storyteller with a tongue of formidable proportions in his cheek.

His current novel is swollen to truly Dickensian proportions - a formidable tome three inches thick whose frightening dimensions are slightly lessened by the fact that you can read it much as you scan your email messages, ignoring all the drivel.

Though a group of hunting lions is potentially nature's most formidable predatory force on land, a high proportion of their hunts fail.

The ever-luminous Ms. Jones -- who, unlike Ms. Kurtz, does indeed resemble the woman she portrays -- has been assigned the formidable task of scaling up to Broadway proportions a figure of patrician understatement.

The males' song is a formidable coarse howl that seems way out of proportion to the child-sized, black primate itself and suggests to me the imminent arrival of a Tyrannosaurus rex, or some other primeval monster.