adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
amount
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A major tsunami will deposit broken trees near the high-water mark and move prodigious amounts of sediment.
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Pizza, pocket sandwiches, ribs and lemon chicken also are turned out in prodigious amounts .
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Building the bridge was a prodigious feat of engineering and finance.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And as we all know from the great chemical fire of 1994, an unhappy Sprewell is a prodigious bummer indeed.
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Fund-raisers used fears of destruction to raise the prodigious sums that fueled the entire machine.
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He fell in love, via a prodigious email correspondence, with another academic whom he had met fleetingly at a conference.
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He scored a try, dropped a goal and controlled the game with some prodigious kicking mixed with some beautifully balanced running.
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He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
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It was designed by the prodigious bridge-builder, Thomas Bouch.
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The building was a prodigious limestone parthenon done in the early thirties in the Civic Moderne style.
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This was written in 1824 when the prodigious composer was only 15.