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epic - use in sentences
Converse of object
- write: Still, this cliff has epic written all over it, the choice is yours.
Preposition: in
- scope: She wanted to branch out and tell tales that were epic in both scope and in the themes that they explored.
- scale: Often epic in scale, they range from Mozart to Molière.
Adjective modifier
- sprawling: In this wonderfully sprawling epic again and again he manages to bring a scene, a person, a conversation dramatically to life.
- sweeping: Sweeping historical epic set in England, Scotland and France.
- cinematic: The books which inspired the two cinematic epics of 1999 are exultant calls to national pride at times of turbulance.
- historical: In 1999 the people of Poland flocked in their millions to see two new films based on much-loved historical literary epics.
- romantic: Prime among these is Meyers ' mistaking quality for quantity: crime or western epic, yes; romantic comedy epic, no.
- mini: The song is structured with tranquil quiet verses and an upbeat chorus that combine to make a very Genesis like mini epic.
Modifies a noun
- poem: Harold is in some respects like an epic poem.
- voyage: His nephew, James Clark Ross, was with him on this epic voyage.
- tale: Instead, one makes a big old epic tale that favors the bizarre.
- saga: Fans have waited 28 years for the sixth and final installment in George Lucas's epic saga.
- journey: Here at last, the story of Joanna Dark's epic journey to becoming the Perfect Agent finally touches down on Xbox 360.
- pn: EPIC pn sensitivity limits for a point source with an = 0.7 power law spectrum, for different energy bands, see Table 5.
Noun used with modifier
- sci-fi: NANCY; You're a scary being in a mask from a sci-fi epic during a major war.
- prog: This is a superb " prog epic " with its changes of mood and pace.
- samurai: He can be seen as a movement toward the dark heroes of later samurai epics.
- fantasy: I first began to write as a teenager, when I first had the idea for a sprawling science fiction and fantasy epic.
- minute: The centerpiece of the record is the 9 minute epic ' Temples of the Sea ' .
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