How to Use monstrosity in a Sentence

monstrosity

noun
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  • Did you see the new mall? It's a monstrosity.
  • Not your tiny piece of it, the pinky toe of the monstrosity.
    — Jason Kehe, Wired, 8 July 2020
  • The center field wall and video board is a bit of a monstrosity One perk?
    — Jeremy Cluff, azcentral, 2 Apr. 2020
  • Those big, blue monstrosities that are hanging around the house?
    — Cindy Dampier, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The only shortage was in the supply of soldiers, who were but cogs in the monstrosity of it all.
    — Partner Content, Variety, 29 Dec. 2022
  • But by far their biggest draw was a caloric monstrosity the likes of which has never been seen.
    — Sebastian Montes, Pomerado News, 1 June 2017
  • The squat monstrosity had a spring-lever arm to launch clay disks, replicating a bird’s flight.
    — Liz Arnold, Longreads, 11 July 2018
  • This week, Spicer wore a tamer shirt than last week's lime green monstrosity, which was...a relief.
    — Jenny Hollander, Marie Claire, 24 Sep. 2019
  • But the way to fix this is not merely to turn back the hands of time and purge our collective memories of such monstrosities.
    — Joe Queenan, WSJ, 9 Nov. 2018
  • The monstrosities scramble over the cockpit and lunge at me even once I’m settled inside.
    — Andrew Webster, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2018
  • But each new revelation also exposes the reach of the shadows, the scale of the monstrosity, the depth of the lie.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 2 Nov. 2017
  • There had to be a visible bit of egg white on this egg-yolk monstrosity.
    — Vulture, 18 Oct. 2022
  • Orsino and Olivia chalk up all that monstrosity to love: An angel made them do it.
    — New York Times, 14 May 2018
  • Mays shared the monstrosity with his teammates and with the Astros and sent the rest to Texas Children’s Hospital.
    — Matt Young, Houston Chronicle, 6 May 2020
  • Its chief attraction is the chance to see, in person, this last remnant of the Whitechapel monstrosity.
    — Nicola Twilley, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2018
  • But far worse, looking ahead to the 2018 midterms, would be for Trump to sign this latest monstrosity into law.
    — Eugene Robinson, The Mercury News, 20 Apr. 2017
  • Dana is forced to confront the monstrosity of her origins.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The nickname spurred the invention of the Boomstick hot dog, a two-foot monstrosity served with chili and nacho cheese.
    — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 22 Aug. 2019
  • There was no shortage of irony in the creation of this legal monstrosity.
    — Jay Stooksberry, The Denver Post, 28 Apr. 2017
  • The sole of these leather chunkers is a rubbery monstrosity.
    — Jacob Gallagher, WSJ, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Three adults could have split this monstrosity and walked away happy.
    — Andy Staples, SI.com, 7 Aug. 2017
  • Their talk began with a single query from the actor, whose costume as Q in TNG was a bit of a monstrosity.
    — Ryan Parker, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Harvey’s fearsome white mass filled the panoramic view – a monstrosity of wind and rain.
    — Sarah Kaplan, sacbee, 28 Aug. 2017
  • This is mainly because the hulking monstrosity is more a tank than a car.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 16 Apr. 2024
  • The par-5 fifth hole at Whistling Straits is a monstrosity that stands out for its angular design.
    — Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 25 Sep. 2021
  • And the window for pushing this monstrosity through the Senate with just 51 votes closes on Sept. 30.
    — Alan S. Blinder, WSJ, 21 Sep. 2017
  • Only a quarter of the state's 1,700 precinct chairs were able to download and install the monstrosity, the New York Times reported.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 5 Feb. 2020
  • Inside the Hilles Gallery is a smaller monstrosity by Drew.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 14 June 2021
  • Much of the episode then centers around one space, where each of our three characters encounters an aquatic monstrosity of the post-nuclear age, a Gulper.
    — Jack King, Vulture, 11 Apr. 2024
  • There are also signs that Culpeper has pulled back from the sort of housing policies that allowed ecological monstrosities of the sort occurring at Clevenger’s Corner (which was approved years ago).
    — Dana Milbank, Washington Post, 10 July 2024

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