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Meanings of giant in English
Portuguese
estrela gigante Synonyms
Examples for "jumbo"
Examples for "jumbo"
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Freddie Mac's requirements cast a wider net for jumbo business, he said.
2
Note: You can make individual portions by using a jumbo muffin tray.
3
Because of high property prices in California, most buyers need jumbo loans.
4
The room the tournament is being played in could house jumbo jets.
5
Let's hope for some more flying jumbo prawns before it bows out.
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How could individuals get similar deals without working for a gargantuan corporation?
2
Shostakovich is almost forgotten now but was once seen as a gargantuan.
3
Most doctors of his day ladled out suffering on a gargantuan scale.
4
Two gargantuan, cloaked Soviet soldiers stood mid-step, guns slung over their shoulders.
5
Artemis forced his eyes open, expecting gargantuan doses of stiffness and pain.
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You are more vulgar and blundering than the most elephantine music-hall artiste.
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Sad is leprosy in all its forms, but most so when elephantine.
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Anon an elephantine trumpeting of laughter seemed to set the air a-quivering.
4
He heard trunk-legs, the surprisingly gentle touchdown of the cactacae's elephantine pads.
5
Astronauts have elephantine memories when it comes to crews who make mistakes.
Usage of giant in English
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So they have; but the Russian giant is seven hundred miles longer.
2
It allowed the Consensus precious days to consolidate the gas giant's defences.
3
AFGHANISTAN: Afghanistan takes one giant step on the road to recovery today.
4
The giant's jaws worked and he let go a long heavy sigh.
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Increased earnings depended on the internet giant's new-found religion about expense control.
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The fields are strangely sinister; the splintered trees are like giant toothpicks.
7
The giant grabbed the ax, and barred the door of the tepee.
8
The giant lights far above floated quietly in the streams of space.
9
He was a giant footman in the gorgeous livery of the Alexis.
10
He looked like a giant in the wavering light of the torch.
11
This followed a visit to Israel by the Chinese technology giant's CEO.
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I was in the middle position, and the middle giant approached me.
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Ian Direach trembled as he saw him; but the giant only said:
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She did not go to the giant figure seated in the chair.
15
This little giant became the most remorseless pace-maker in the steel regions.
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It was time this farce ended; he would spit the giant now.
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Australia
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Ireland
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