Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
leviathan .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word leviathans.
Examples
-
Once the "leviathans" are dealt with, the remainder lose their way, and can be re influenced.
[unwitting partners] we’re always the good guys, aren’t we 2009
-
There have been distinct points in history that could have reversed the development we now see nearing completion, points where the "leviathans" intervened to further their cause.
[unwitting partners] we’re always the good guys, aren’t we 2009
-
In the moonlight, the scaffold appears to be made of bleached bones from one of the leviathans that wash up on our shores from time to time to general alarm, for what godly world encompasses such creatures?
Secret History of Elizabeth Tudor, Vampire Slayer Lucy Weston 2011
-
The sky overhead was a crisp azure with billowy leviathans swimming overhead.
-
Each year, from June through August, 11,000 whales come here to feed on capelin, a forage fish from the smelt family and favorite of the leviathans.
Margie Goldsmith: A Close Encounter with New Foundland's Humpbacks Margie Goldsmith 2011
-
Such leviathans—about the length of four soccer fields and more than 100 feet high—are towed by large tugboats to their destination, and journeys to Africa and Europe can take four or five months.
Shipyards Running Aground Evan Ramstad 2011
-
Sure, other media entities -- particularly ones owned by corporate leviathans -- engage in questionable practices, but none with the kind of shameless audacity that seems to be written into News Corp's mission statement.
Chez Pazienza: The Politics of Murdoch Chez Pazienza 2011
-
The sky overhead was a crisp azure with billowy leviathans swimming overhead.
-
Out of the school perhaps he would reach a score of the leviathans, his bullets biting into them like whip-lashes, so that each, like a colt surprised by the stock-whip, would leap in the air, or with a flirt of tail dive under the surface, and then charge madly across the ocean and away from sight in a foam-churn of speed.
CHAPTER XII 2010
-
Hoyerswerda's peak population has dropped by around 40%, emptying out vast residential leviathans that are still being demolished.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.