massive - use in sentences

Preposition: than

  • mass: The oldest globular clusters contain only stars less massive than 0.7 solar masses.

Modifies a noun

  • boost: The protest was also given a massive boost from the samba players that had gathered.
  • expansion: Due to massive expansion plans we are looking for an experienced Resourcing Manager or Hiring Manager.
  • amount: To bring our new website online with a " bang " was a massive amount of publicity, courtesy of the BBC!
  • explosion: Just a few years later in 1917 a massive explosion on board a supply ship cost 1,700 lives in the city.
  • scale: How can ' ethnic cleansing ' on a massive scale have been repeated?
  • earthquake: On December 26th 2004 a massive earthquake registering 9.0 on the Richter scale struck off the west coast of Indonesia.

Modifying Another Word

  • absolutely: Now supporting Primal Scream, and set to be absolutely massive.
  • potentially: If you are careless, you will get stung by potentially massive bills ( unless you use pre-pay ).
  • truly: While there are several smaller stones, there are only three of the truly massive stones in that circle left.
  • equally: Ostensibly a crime drama of the formulaic construction viewers were used to, Cracker obtained equally massive ratings and credibility.
  • so: The equipment was so massive as to be unusable in most circumstances.
  • quite: It is iconic and quite massive with a vast multi-storey open exhibition space for the main collection.

Used with adjective complement

  • seem: We'd never been anywhere like this before and we were just wow it seemed so massive.
  • look: The toppling of the statue was promoted as a massive uprising; does this even look massive to you?
  • go: When the full version 1.0 comes out later in the year, it's going to go massive.
  • get: To get really massive, here are the basic requirements: 1 ) A lot of good food.
  • have: Our loyal staff have massive accumulated experience whatever your boating needs.
  • resemble: On a molecular level they resemble massive braided steal cables.

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