(a.) Not contracted of brief; not concise; extended; diffusive; as, an ample narrative.
Example Sentences:
(1) After the first stage of analysis the spin systems of 60 of the 77 residues were assigned to the appropriate residue type, providing an ample basis for subsequent sequence-specific assignments.
(2) Throughout the five stages, the student has ample opportunity for expression and self-evaluation in the counseling sessions that accompany each stage.
(3) Thirty mg was an ample in dose of PGF2alpha to cause luteolysis.
(4) Despite ample evidence of need for specialized psychiatric services in the nursing home setting, the majority of patients who could benefit from such care do not receive it.
(5) Fewer, but still ample numbers, of SP-reactive axons are present also in the ventral tegmental and retrorubral areas of the midbrain tegmentum and in the ventral pallidum of the basal forebrain, but only sparse ME-reactive axons are present in these areas.
(6) Treatment of the acute phase in which ample use is made of colchicine must be followed by medical and dietary treatment of the chronic condition.
(7) It is understood García will be given ample time to make a full recovery and may be given an extended leave of absence if required.
(8) Despite uncertainties and differences in interpretation of various cancer studies, there is ample justification for public health measures now in place or proposed, such as restriction or elimination of smoking in the workplace and in public places.
(9) Despite the presence of ample drug on the cell membrane, the conjugate alone was not cytotoxic over the course of several days.
(10) Ample sensitivity is accomplished with a simple fluorometer by selecting a combination of Schott bandpass filters with high-transmittance characteristics at appropriate wavelengths.
(11) There are two fantasies about the British countryside that were given ample play in last week's furious debates about the rights and wrongs of building there.
(12) Hardly a surprise given ample spare capacity and in many cases continued credit rationing.
(13) The few that remain benefit from ample provisions, friendly volunteers and cardboard-and-curtain partitions designed by the world-famous architect, Shigeru Ban .
(14) Nitromethane (NM) and 2-nitropropane (2-NP) and versatile compounds employed in a wide variety of industrial applications, thus providing ample opportunity for occupational exposure.
(15) The main nutrition consideration during the all-day meet is fluid replacement, and swimmers should be encouraged to drink ample water, especially when in a hot environment.
(16) The data points were accurate to about 0.03 mm in each of the three space directions, allowing ample resolution of surface detail.
(17) Without hormonal treatment, the interstitial gland expressed ample amounts of P-450scc.
(18) A special purpose operating system, implemented on a stand-alone computer configuration, allows a high data-acquisition rate and ample data processing capacity.
(19) The selection process takes place during T cell maturation, in the absence of antigen and under the dominant influence of the thymus, even though there is ample evidence for selective pressure in the extrathymic environment.
(20) The US embassy and Nato forces in Afghanistan did not comment, but they have previously said there is "ample evidence" to suspect all the men of a role in attacks that killed or wounded 60 foreign soldiers and 57 Afghans.
Monstrous
Definition:
(a.) Marvelous; strange.
(a.) Having the qualities of a monster; deviating greatly from the natural form or character; abnormal; as, a monstrous birth.
(a.) Extraordinary in a way to excite wonder, dislike, apprehension, etc.; -- said of size, appearance, color, sound, etc.; as, a monstrous height; a monstrous ox; a monstrous story.
(a.) Extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness; hateful; horrible; dreadful.
(a.) Abounding in monsters.
(adv.) Exceedingly; very; very much.
Example Sentences:
(1) He said: “Al-Jazeera as an editorial product and an employer is by no means above criticism, but that does not make the call for its closure any less monstrous.
(2) as though his head had been halved like an apple, then put together a fraction off center'" – but if they were monstrous they were also, necessarily, human.
(3) Some singers and writers are understood to write “in character” – Elvis Costello, for instance, or Randy Newman – because the characters they create are so obviously not themselves, and are either highly exaggerated or satirical creations or, in the case of Randy Newman, a monstrous opposite.
(4) Which is a monstrous statistic, especially when you start thinking about it as a statistic that measures not just literacy but also as a measure of imagination and empathy, because a book is a little empathy machine.
(5) Despite a cramping, high-concept production set in a psychiatric ward, Richardson gave us a Richard resembling a monstrous child whose ravening will had yet to be curbed by social custom.
(6) I have seen generations of children with their familiar, monstrous deformities .
(7) Ultrasonic treatment results in the appearance of monstrous embryos that die at the latest stages of their development.
(8) Jamie Vardy started to score the goals that his lightning speed of foot and monstrous effort promised he might.
(9) His monstrous wardrobe, his entourages of 300 or 400 ferried in four aeroplanes, his huge bedouin tent, complete with accompanying camel, pitched in public parks or in the grounds of five-star hotels – and his bodyguards of gun-toting young women, who, though by no means hiding their charms beneath demure Islamic veils, were all supposedly virgins, and sworn to give their lives for their leader.
(10) Prosecutors called Gibbs "monstrous" and "savage" and told the military jury he should never be released from prison.
(11) Both cell types fuse again to form the monstrous MGC (more than 1 mm in diameter) widely extended on the implant surface.
(12) The Celtics took a 2-1 series lead and made a monstrous statement against their younger opponents.
(13) Not only the monstrous anger of the guns nor the stuttering rifles’ rapid rattle, but now an epic four-minute, eye-wateringly expensive commercial for a supermarket chain.
(14) Yet it is monstrously premature to think the threat has passed.
(15) As always, the solutions are out there to eliminate this monstrous pile of pointless and avoidable waste.
(16) So Standard Chartered is either guilty of monstrous deception or is virtually squeaky clean.
(17) With permissions already granted for many more towers, from the Scalpel to the Can of Ham and a monstrous “Gotham City” mega-block by Make, we can say goodbye to a skyline of individual spires, between which you might occasionally glimpse the sky.
(18) Concerned citizens must join together with the medical profession and leaders of the legal profession to halt this monstrous injustice.
(19) All three of these deaths were monstrous, but two were barely news: business as usual like many thousands of other violent crimes against women.
(20) Alexander Walker, film critic at the Evening Standard, damned the movie as "monstrously indecent", prompting Russell to attack him with a rolled-up copy of his own newspaper.