GIANT in a Sentence

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107 example sentences for GIANT, such as:

1. Shakespeare is a giant among writers.
2. But at sea the wind can build up giant, powerful waves.
3. There is concern that the giant panda will soon become extinct.
4. She could never make plain to the weeping giant what a convent was.
5. She saw the prairie, flat in giant patches or rolling in long hummocks.

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 Meanings and Examples of GIANT
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giant
 n.  person of extraordinary strength or powers, bodily or intellectual
Classic Sentence: (69 in 5 pages)
1  Abel was a shrewd, grave giant, illiterate, kind of heart, older than the other boys and with as good or better manners in the presence of ladies.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
2  The town she was now seeing was like a baby grown overnight into a busy, sprawling giant.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII
3  As she half rose from her seat to look closer, the giant caught sight of her and his black face split in a grin of delighted recognition.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
4  The South had been tilted as by a giant malicious hand, and those who had once ruled were now more helpless than their former slaves had ever been.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
5  Atlanta these days was like a giant plant which had been cut to the ground but now was springing up again with sturdier shoots, thicker foliage, more numerous branches.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
6  Reluctantly he slid out of his hiding place, a giant ragged figure, bare-footed, clad in denim breeches and a blue Union uniform jacket that was far too short and tight for his big frame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
7  She could never make plain to the weeping giant what a convent was.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIV
8  Sometimes I think she's like the giant Antaeus who became stronger each time he touched Mother Earth.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LVII
9  Suddenly they heard a remote sound, like the hum of a giant insect, and following the high-road, which wound whiter through the surrounding twilight, a black object rushed across their vision.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 6
10  She saw the prairie, flat in giant patches or rolling in long hummocks.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
11  All about me giant grasshoppers, twice as big as any I had ever seen, were doing acrobatic feats among the dried vines.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: II
12  He had only been there four months, and he was young, and a giant besides.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
13  They spread in vast clouds overhead, writhing, curling; then, uniting in one giant river, they streamed away down the sky, stretching a black pall as far as the eye could reach.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 2
14  He smiled briefly when he saw men dodge and duck at the long screechings of shells that were thrown in giant handfuls over them.
The Red Badge of Courage By Stephen Crane
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 22
15  For I was sick, almost to death; and when, through the panic, everybody else fled, Scipio worked for me like a giant, and actually brought me back into life again.
Uncle Tom's Cabin By Harriet Beecher Stowe
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (38 in 3 pages)
16  After running the roads with him for years I can confirm he is a gentle giant and a down to earth man who lives and breaths trucking and tarmac.
17  The second phase of the trial restarts a legal juggernaut that could saddle the energy giant with the largest environmental penalty in U.S. history, and calculate the amount of crude oil that spewed from the crippled well.
18  It's the web giant's first foray into wearable technology, an emerging market expected to more closely integrate the capabilities of smartphones in our lives.
19  This week, a giant symbol of mammon appeared in Russia's most venerated public place, and traditionalists were not amused.
20  The River Thames was the centre of a daft spectacle yesterday as a giant 50 foot rubber duck swam down it to celebrate the launch of Jackpotjoy.com's new Facebook FUNdation, a bursary granting funds.
21  William H. Gross, the co-founder of the mutual fund giant Pimco who abruptly quit last month to join a much smaller mutual fund company, has in the past peppered his market commentary with upbeat and zany humor.
22  An international court ruled that Russia owes shareholders of the now-defunct oil giant Yukos more than $50 billion for what it described as the Kremlin's "devious and calculated expropriation" of assets designed to bankrupt the firm.
23  When Prime Minister welcomed two giant pandas on Monday in a specially outfitted Fed-Ex cargo jet, he called them “national treasures” of China that would reinforce Canada's relationship with its Asian trading partner.
24  The search giant said that all text entered will be made indecipherable automatically, in a move that could render the "Great Firewall" - China's infamous internet censorship system - useless for tracing the activity of Google users.
25  He was, of course, both humane and probably even saintly, but like another giant of history, he was also a shrewd and smoothly manipulative politician with a keen strategic grasp of pragmatic possibilities.
26  Shakespeare is a giant among writers.
27  There is concern that the giant panda will soon become extinct.
28  All that stuff about catching giant fish was just a bit of poetic licence.
29  But at sea the wind can build up giant, powerful waves.
30  Hess then proceeded to describe the ocean floor as if it were a collection of giant conveyor belts.