Sentences with leviathan
le·vi·a·than
L l - Democracy survived the Civil War and the developing industrial leviathan and struggled on into the twentieth century.
- That man was a leviathan! He took up a whole row of seats at the theatre.
- Over the past 43 years he has worked in the trenches at such corporate leviathans as IBM and Xerox, and in between he has found the time to be an entrepreneur, running 21 companies in 17 industries at one time or another.
- The typical person lacks the resources, knowledge, and skills to take on the local leviathan that our local governments have become.
- Fish populations plummeted and eventually, when the canal was 30 kilometers long and the sea continued to move away, the boats were abandoned to lie like great leviathans on sands that were once sea bottom.
- The factory is a towering leviathan in the middle of the town.
- Blue whales, found in all the oceans of the world, are true leviathans, stretching as long as 100 feet and weighing as much as 200 tons.
- The reason for the fluctuations is uncertain, but if there were several large leviathans in the lake prior to 1860 as proponents believe, why was there only one highly doubtful sighting?
- Leviathans are one of the nastiest water animals that ever swam the seven seas, and I thought that a leviathan was scaring the fish away from something.
- The humpback whale, that mighty leviathan of the briny deep, hardly strikes one as a marvel of agility; on the contrary, it seems the very embodiment of stateliness and power.
- She was in awe of the powerful old leviathan, and adjusted its controls with a naive reverence.
- Since a corporation's culture shapes the quality and range of its journalism, the danger in reducing ownership to a few leviathans seems clear.
- These rare leviathans of the deep have not been seen in the North Atlantic for many years.
- Back in the days when whalers hunted sperm whales, they often reported seeing fish fly through the air when the leviathans surfaced.