Sentence examples for prodigious jumps from inspiring English sources

Now a study of the northern leopard frog (Rana pipiens), chosen partly for its handy size and wide availability, reveals how the frogs make their prodigious jumps despite relatively small muscles: They turn themselves into catapults.

No Chilean had the height or the strength to jump with them, and Juan, with the most prodigious leap, hammered the ball into the net with his head.

The weights, the distance, and the big jumps demand horses of prodigious strength and stamina and usually of more than normal size.

What gets conspiracy theorists excited is not just Mr. Hagel's prodigious wins, but his job before jumping into the 1996 race: heading American Information Systems, the manufacturer of the machines that count 85percentt of Nebraska's votes.

If it's not quite the jump from Bob Dylan to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, it's the closest recent equivalent, a prodigious rate of development for such a tyro talent, all the more remarkable for not being reliant on significant musical progression, so much as raw songwriting ability.

Prodigious activities beckoned.

His philanthropy was prodigious.

The slaughter was prodigious.

Beard's output is prodigious.

He has performed prodigious labors.

It is a prodigious challenge.