(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.
Gargantuan
Definition:
(a.) Characteristic of Gargantua, a gigantic, wonderful personage; enormous; prodigious; inordinate.
Example Sentences:
(1) The world is in awe of China’s relentless capacity to produce gargantuan cities, each outdoing the most recent superlative that describes its predecessor.
(2) Behind the sedately revolving capsules of the London Eye, plucky local resident George Turner has been holding another gargantuan development machine to account in a David-and-Goliath planning battle that reached the High Court.
(3) That means reconsidering the ‘sacred cows’ of the political class, including overseas aid and the gargantuan scale of the welfare state.
(4) But it's fair to say a fondness for sniping games marks me out as a coward who'd rather take potshots from a distance than actually climb down from the tree and enter the fray like a man, a theory backed up by the fact that while I love sniping, I detest "stealth games" (because it's scary when you get caught) and "boss fights" where you have to battle some gargantuan show-off 10 times your height who keeps knocking you on your arse with his tail.
(5) The game combines elements of the first-person shooter (FPS) and role-playing game (RPG) genres into one gargantuan experience.
(6) The good news is that you don't have to travel to southern California to get a taste of 2014's blockbuster wannabes: a slew of trailers that debuted inside the San Diego Convention Centre 's gargantuan Hall H have now hit the web – and there's no need to dress up like Xena the warrior princess to watch them.
(7) The annual gatherings have grown from roughly 500 participants at the first official climate negotiations in Berlin in 1995 to sprawling jamborees – gargantuan rotating festivals of anything remotely associated with environmental causes or, increasingly, profit-making “green” enterprises.
(8) This deal-making, in which she forged alliances with the Nordic countries, signed deals with Tony Blair's Labour government and struck agreements with the Bretton Woods institutions, will stand her in good stead when she moves to the gargantuan, Chinese-built AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
(9) Just a million years earlier, the planet had been devastated by a gargantuan eruption of natural gas, which caused unprecedented greenhouse warming.
(10) An inquiry led by Lord Justice Leveson , meanwhile, held a spectacularly harsh light to the "ethics and practices" of the press and the politicians last summer and, in a gargantuan 1,987-page report in November, recommended a broad and complex system in which newspapers remained self-regulated but with a new body replacing the fatally criticised Press Complaints Commission and being recognised in law.
(11) Below, a gargantuan steel ring hovers 10 storeys above the ground, its perimeter adorned with metal spikes.
(12) I suppose the most humanitarian purpose of all would be to prevent the slaughter of innocents because the slaughter of innocents is what we have seen on a gargantuan scale in Syria and northern Iraq in the last few months,” he said.
(13) And then there’s the gargantuan American arsenal of weapons and the havoc wreaked with it.
(14) To One Love Manchester then, the gargantuan benefit concert in aid of the victims of the horrific terror attack in Manchester at the Ariana Grande gig in May .
(15) He is to blame for the gargantuan queues outside petrol stations."
(16) The gargantuan total, the first time a movie has ever opened north of $500m, was helped by a gigantic $204.6m US total and huge $100.8m Chinese bow, as well as $29.6m in the UK.
(17) Next season’s gargantuan Premier League television deal means promoted teams stand to benefit by a minimum of £170m – even the bottom club will receive just under £100m in broadcast and merit money followed by about £75m in parachute payments.
(18) The British parliament is then meant to “amend, repeal and improve” each law as necessary – a gargantuan task.
(19) When Huhne was one of the first cabinet ministers to settle at the end of September, the gargantuan challenges in his in-tray led people to assume he might have folded early rather than fought the good fight.
(20) At the time, the gargantuan listing valued the Switzerland-based company at about £37bn – despite its reputation for secrecy, and scepticism that it could maintain its huge trading profits.