MONSTROUS in a Sentence

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1. It was heroism become monstrous.
2. The form of this combat was monstrous.
3. Life will become monstrous all about you.
4. This monstrous mass must be made to crumble.
5. It's monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room.

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 Meanings and Examples of MONSTROUS
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monstrous
 a.  marvelous; strange; extraordinary on account of ugliness, viciousness, or wickedness
Classic Sentence: (85 in 6 pages)
1  This is one which his sister overheard one evening and preserved: "I did not think that it was so monstrous."
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—WORKS CORRESPONDING TO WORDS
2  Athwart the unhealthy perceptions of an incomplete nature and a crushed intelligence, he was confusedly conscious that some monstrous thing was resting on him.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII—THE INTERIOR OF DESPAIR
3  They were of those dwarfed natures which, if a dull fire chances to warm them up, easily become monstrous.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—FIRST SKETCH OF TWO UNPREPOSSESSING FIGURES
4  The form of this combat was monstrous.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—THE PLATEAU OF MONT-SAINT-JEAN
5  It was France who committed this monstrous violence; by foul means, for, with the exception of wars of liberation, everything that armies do is by foul means.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
6  Forests are apocalypses, and the beating of the wings of a tiny soul produces a sound of agony beneath their monstrous vault.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER V—THE LITTLE ONE ALL ALONE
7  Up to that time, the Republic, the Empire, had been to him only monstrous words.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI—THE CONSEQUENCES OF HAVING MET A WARDEN
8  He could not believe that it really was that divine creature whom he saw in the midst of those vile creatures in that monstrous lair.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER X—TARIFF OF LICENSED CABS: TWO FRANCS AN HOUR
9  Surprise, rage, hate, wrath, were mingled and combined in one monstrous intonation.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER XII—THE USE MADE OF M. LEBLANC'S FIVE-FRANC PIECE
10  This solution which is complete on one side only leads her fatally to two extremes: monstrous opulence, monstrous wretchedness.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV—CRACKS BENEATH THE FOUNDATION
11  Life will become monstrous all about you.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER II—MOTHER PLUTARQUE FINDS NO DIFFICULTY IN EXPLAI...
12  A throng of evil, base, or irritated souls, who have traversed life and have vanished into eternity, linger there almost entirely visible still beneath the form of some monstrous word.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER II—ROOTS
13  This monstrous mass must be made to crumble.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 13: CHAPTER III—THE EXTREME EDGE
14  It was monstrous enough already to have suffered for three days.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER X—DAWN
15  It was heroism become monstrous.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXII—FOOT TO FOOT
Example Sentence:
1  It's absolutely monstrous to pay men more than women for the same job.
2  It's monstrous to charge that much for a hotel room.
3  They complain that the monstrous edifices interfere with television reception.
4  Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he would hardly notice the other niggers.