6 sentences with 'gigantic'
Example sentences and phrases with the word gigantic and other words derived from it.
• « In his drive to produce the car "for all the people," Henry Ford had turned a gigantic key, which gave him access to a magical new world. »
• « In short, nowhere else on earth could the pyramids have been built more than in ancient Egypt. There had to be a gigantic surplus of energy in the form of calories available to do so. »
• « In 513 BC Darius I led a gigantic invasion of Central Asia in an attempt to put an end to the Scythian incursions once and for all; he was forced to retreat without winning a decisive victory, but his army was still intact and he had added Thrace (modern Bulgaria) to the empire. »
• « Unlike Sparta, however, Rome was able to mobilise gigantic armies, in part because slaves came to do most of the work on farms and in workshops over time, freeing free Roman men to participate in the annual invasions of neighbouring territories. »
• « That said, Nero used the space cleared by the fire to begin construction of a gigantic new palace in the middle of Rome called "the golden house", into which he poured the state's revenues. »
• « Filippo Brunelleschi invented a gigantic geared winch to lift huge blocks of sandstone hundreds of metres into the air and is even known to have personally ascended the building to lay the bricks. »