I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
big
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The big monster lay down next to me with its fur against my skin.
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The engine of the big mechanical monster was ticking over with the deep throb of impatient, reined-in horsepower.
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The big monster sat down with me.
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This certainly makes a big monster a less favourable option as a mount for these characters.
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A Giant will have the same effect on your enemy as a big monster .
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Then the big grey monster ran back through the trees, jumped at me and knocked me down.
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The big grey monster sat in front of me and it looked at me.
large
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A group of several chariots is certainly powerful but suffers all the disadvantages of large monsters .
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However, it is possible for other war engines and large monsters to inflict damage on them.
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They are difficult to destroy, although a hit from another war machine or large monster may be sufficient to cause damage.
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The base contains about nine Snotlings but is treated as if it were a single large monster with several wounds and attacks.
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The Empire army is vulnerable to large terror-inducing monsters dropping on it from above.
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Next come large enemy monsters or small powerful units such as knights.
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Another wonder is the Imperial Zoo which houses large and fearsome monsters as well as curiosities and abominations from the Northern Wastes.
little
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But it's great fun watching these little monsters give undercover cop Arnie the run-around.
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As I fell, I dropped the little monster and it escaped.
■ NOUN
sea
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The four pages contain a number of stories describing people's encounters with sea monsters of different kinds.
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You want a real sea monster .
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This is the rescue of Hesione from a sea monster .
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It was an enormous sea monster .
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The good creation still includes the deep with its sea monsters , theological representations of the original monster of chaos.
■ VERB
create
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I stood there in the dark and the rain, and knew that I had created a monster .
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Learning a lesson Resistance to vancomycin already has created a smaller monster of a bug that had been virtually harmless, enterococcus.
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There, he said, many animals interbred and created monsters .
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Well, Mr Nice made one exception to a rule and discovered he had created a monster .
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But the government, in pursuit of high-minded ideals, has created a bureaucratic monster before which small business-people flee in terror.
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Fifty years of refining training techniques and equipment and breeding for selected deformities have created a monster out of a horse.
turn
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He's turned into a monster since Suzanna.
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It was like all that ego-building which eventually turns into a monster .
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
the green-eyed monster
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A monster like that should not be allowed to live!
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a sea monster
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He argued that unless these monsters were put in prison immediately, they would continue to terrorize the public.
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I hate taking the boys grocery shopping - they turn into monsters.
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Their pumpkin this year was a monster .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But the government, in pursuit of high-minded ideals, has created a bureaucratic monster before which small business-people flee in terror.
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Fear for my family and hate for my monster were with me day and night.
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Now the Vaccines for Children program has become a new bureaucratic monster with a life of its own.
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The big monster sat down with me.
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The Giants, the fourth race of monsters, sprang up from his blood.
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These guys are only Caspers; the real monsters are still breathing on this side of the great divide.
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This includes the cost of a monster ridden by a character.
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You never were, although the slum people were complaining that a monster was preying on them.
II. adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a monster truck rally
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That's a monster tree!
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A blink from a monster victory now threatening disaster.
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All afternoon I walked on the snow of the monster storm.
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Chichio's boat is a monster dinghy the length of a bus.
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It was a monster game because the week before it was as if the building had fallen down.
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Yet sentiments such as this were inevitable, as soon as politicians had agreed to make the monster Dome a public project.