(n.) An animal, probably the hippopotamus, described in Job xl. 15-24.
Example Sentences:
(1) The R&D team at Unilever, the British-Dutch behemoth that makes 40% of the ice creams we eat in the UK – Magnum, Ben & Jerry's, Cornetto and Carte D'Or among them – has invested heavily to create products that are both healthier and creamier.
(2) The blog, which used to chronicle the discoveries OkCupid made by observing its users’ behaviour, has been mothballed for three years, since OkCupid was purchased by dating behemoth Match.com in February 2011.
(3) The tech behemoth reported strong sales of its signature phone in its third-quarter financial report – fully 47.5m iPhones, up more than a third year-over-year, for a net revenue of $31.4bn.
(4) To be in the bowels of West Ham’s London Stadium last week was to experience the distilled essence of the modern, multi-billion pound Premier League behemoth.
(5) Later, Lord Birt said he admired the "bold, buccaneering spirit" of Rupert Murdoch but warned that Sky was "a financial behemoth now dwarfing other players, including the BBC, financially".
(6) Over time, this first wave of dating sites began to be subsumed and crushed by the behemoths: Udate, match.com, datingdirect.com , offering simple functionality, instant messaging features and lots of room for photographs.
(7) What's really surprising is that the No 1 British act in America isn't Elton John or Paul McCartney or any of those obvious British behemoths abroad (although Irish band U2 did come in higher and Coldplay haven't released anything recently).
(8) Dahl’s heroine, Sophie, is a lonely young girl plucked from her bed in an orphanage by the titular behemoth, and carried off to Giant Land, his home, lest she alert the normal world to the presence of giants.
(9) The past few years have seen unprecedented consolidation between insurance companies as they’ve merged and become behemoths.
(10) Twelve months ago, Murdoch characterised the publicly funded BBC as a threat to the rest of the industry, a behemoth that distorts every market it enters, from magazines to websites.
(11) But the past weeks saw several signs that the network he turned into a ratings behemoth was cooling in its support.
(12) Presented as a benevolent behemoth of fast-track regeneration, the Games were supposed to leave behind a shiny new world of 12,000 homes and 10,000 jobs, set amid the rolling hills of the largest new park in Europe.
(13) Europe can’t expect its digital talent to take on the Googles, Facebooks, Amazons and Apples without some assurance that law will prevent the behemoths from handing them an offer they can’t refuse: be acquired, pay hefty fees for ads or placement, or risk total obscurity.
(14) The reality is the Democratic Senate and the administration have been involved in this at every level.” Louise Slaughter, ranking Democrat on the House rules committee, argued the “behemoth” of a bill was “submitted in the dark of night at the last minute in the hope that we would not find out what was in it.” “The House of Representatives is about to show us the worst of government for the rich and powerful,” said Senator Elizabeth Warren in a speech on Wednesday that served to rally opposition.
(15) This vast scale has given it an air of an unstoppable behemoth trampling over rivals and across borders.
(16) The company responsible for the the Charge HR , the Surge and the eponymous Fitbit Tracker is the behemoth of the $3bn fitness tracking industry with a 68% share of the market, but is it worth the valuation?
(17) I would rather they actually contract out to a large number of smaller production companies rather than have a behemoth themselves,” Bridgen said.
(18) Since 2007 the price of food in real terms increased by 12% across the board, while the buying power of the behemoth retailers allowed them to push the prices paid to farmers – whether traditional or organic – ever closer to a bankruptcy cliff.
(19) It’s possible Mary Berry is in fact a trojan behemoth, and viewers might wonder what dark secrets she’s hiding as a highly strung web administrator from Kettering furiously puts the finishing touches to a multi-tiered woodland-themed Genoese sponge.
(20) The NRA’s commitment to Trump was underscored when Chris Cox, the NRA’s top lobbyist gave a primetime speech at the GOP convention this summer, a first for the increasingly GOP-oriented pro-gun lobbying behemoth.
Colossal
Definition:
(a.) Of enormous size; gigantic; huge; as, a colossal statue.
(a.) Of a size larger than heroic. See Heroic.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Businesses will be ecstatic at today's decision because the Games will bring a colossal one-off commercial boost to the entire country," said the group's president, Michael Cassidy.
(2) Mockingjay Part 1 may simply be suffering due to the huge success earlier this year of the latest Transformers movie, which made a colossal $301m in China .
(3) The Baltic nations, Ukraine and the countries of the southern Caucasus did not regain their independence until the final, colossal crash of the Soviet Union three years later.
(4) Still, the book, which was written by Blair himself rather than a ghostwriter and is scheduled for publication in September, has already earned him a colossal advance, said to be around £5m.
(5) The proposed rework was a “seriously retrograde step” – “a colossal mistake, and a dangerous one.” The opposition leader validated arguments Jewish groups, including the Executive Council of Australian Jewry, have raised this past week against the proposed RDA changes.
(6) Latest official figures seen by the Guardian, however, throw into sharp relief the colossal scale of the business, a back-office beehive of activity.
(7) The trio at the top – Lord Stevenson, the bank's chairman "from its birth to its death" and successive chief executives Sir James Crosby and Andy Hornby – were roundly blamed for the colossal failures that led to its collapse.
(8) For many City investors, however, these colossal payouts are not at all troubling.
(9) They punished aspiration by introducing tuition fees, saddled public services with long-term debt through the colossal rip-off of PFI, and began privatising our NHS – laying the foundations for some of the pernicious policies of this coalition as they did so.
(10) Former UN official accuses world body of 'colossal mismanagement' Read more While the UN provides shelter to about 200,000 people in their protection of civilians (POC) sites, the recent report is surely testament to the failure, at least in part, of this mandate, cataloguing horrific abuses against thousands of civilians.
(11) The colossal tarpaulin roof had actually been opened and closed regularly throughout the day, as if taunting those fans who could not attend the rescheduled game, as the locals sought to dry the surface so there was an irony this game kicked off with autumnal sunshine pouring through the concourse under the canopy.
(12) So for him to come along and lie to us and get that deep into our lives was a colossal, colossal betrayal."
(13) "It's a welcome decision but it also underscores what a colossal strategic blunder it was mov ing the News at Ten in the first place and allowing the BBC in to steal the slot."
(14) In their article, they argue: “The status quo is a colossal con perpetrated on the public by politicians who are too scared to break the taboo.” Portugal decriminalised all drugs at the turn of the century.
(15) Further investment would be required on the sections of route from Leamington Spa to Birmingham and between Leamington Spa and Coventry, but the cost of these improvements would be small change when set against the colossal bill for HS2.
(16) Unlike the colossal dead weight waste of giving winter fuel payments to the likes of me, EMA is tightly targeted.
(17) He has never dared refute the Institute for Fiscal Studies' predictions of 500,000 more children made poor as a direct result of his colossal £18bn benefit cuts.
(18) The west's inaction in the face of the pending Ba'athist and Shia Islamist victory amounts to a colossal failure of leadership.
(19) The vote was seen as vital for Greece to press ahead with austerity measures and avoid defaulting on its colossal €355bn (£297bn) debt.
(20) The war was either a colossal mistake or a struggle for important principles.