voluminous

• “These were the ones whose jeans looked uncomfortably snug, whose faces had a moonish quality that didn't quite seem accustomed, who cloaked themselves in voluminous hoodies.”

  The Washington Post: Your college kid, plus 15

• “Irresponsible headlines, especially in voluminous journals where few have time to read all the letterpress, are very dangerous.”

  Survival At Stake, Our Individual Responsibilities

• “People in a democracy have a right to criticize their government and the freer the country the more voluminous is the criticism.”

  Food

• “Up the hilly road, as though ascending from the depths of the valley, came figures of old men with gnarled sticks hanging from their wrists by leather straps, and women whose heads wrapped in voluminous kerchiefs looked too large for their small bodies.”

  The Mother

• “The elderly beaux still wear the showy embroidered waistcoats, knee breeches, lace ruffles and sparkling shoe buckles of the late eighteenth century, while the younger men, conforming to the newer style, have adopted close-fitting nankeen pantaloons tied above the ankle by a piece of ribbon, and wear long-tailed blue coats adorned with brass buttons, while their necks are swathed in voluminous white muslin cravats.”

  Jane Austen: Her Homes and Her Friends

• “The Cape papers contain voluminous accounts of the cruiser”

  The Cape Papers

• “The heaving is one of the mass beneath, and comes in voluminous rolls as of hills in motion; on the surface of these are the waves, that, far as the eye can reach, take a sharp, angular, spiral form, till the whole resembles an army of spear-heads in motion.”

  Extracts from a Lady's Log-Book,

• “Most foreign businessmen in China recall voluminous quantities of baijiu and the burning throat, if little else, afterward.”

  Forbes: Taste Test

• “Because of translation issues and the international nature of this alleged plot and what prosecutors are calling voluminous discovery, the judge designated the case complex waiving speedy trial deadlines.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 30, 2009

• “QUESTION: Ari, Iraq will have its say of sorts on Saturday when they release what has been described as a voluminous document.”

  CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2002

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