Sentence examples for they were formidable from inspiring English sources

They were formidable opponents.

"He was very sceptical about my choice until he listened to my tapes and decided they were formidable".

Commanded not by officers but by chieftains, they were formidable foot soldiers more notable for physical prowess and courage than for tactical organization.

In this way, the two-party system held, for a time: whatever name the ex-Whigs chose, voters in Kentucky understood quite well that they were formidable rivals with the Democrats, regardless of the collapse of Whiggery elsewhere.

Unperturbed, Osbert and his brother and sister each believed the others to be transcendent geniuses and, says Philip Ziegler, saw it as essential to point this out ad nauseam to a largely disbelieving world.As a trio they were formidable.

Sometimes they were formidable, as when they thrashed QPR 4-0 in September, but they rarely performed solidly for a full match and were frequently undone by their preposterous ability to shoot themselves in the foot and an unpardonable sluggishness, as in the 3-0 home defeat by Wolves four days later.

When they come together, they are formidable".

But the other problems remain, and they are formidable.

But when they're firing they're formidable.

These are real people, and they are formidable people.

They are formidable, to be sure, but they entail hikes, not climbs.