When lo! – the tale I shudder to pursue – / from Tenedos in silence, side by side, / two monstrous serpents, horrible to view, / with coils enormous leaning on the tide, / shoreward, with even stretch, the tranquil sea divide.

What, to speak without a metaphor, do you call this monstrous passion which you charge me with fostering?" "Revenge, my good sir—revenge."

That man's monstrously strong.

We're all going to be eaten by a monstrous talking shrubbery.

Murder is a monstrous act.

A maiden to the waist, with bosom fair / and human face; below, a monstrous whale, / down from whose wolf-like womb hangs many a dolphin's tail."

One morning, Gregor Samsa woke from a rough night's sleep and found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous bug.

High in the citadel the monstrous frame / pours forth an armed deluge to the day, / and Sinon, puffed with triumph, spreads the flame. / Part throng the gates, part block each narrow way; / such hosts Mycenae sends, such thousands to the fray."

The building is a monstrous structure.

Then first Thymaetes cries aloud, to go / and through the gates the monstrous horse convey / and lodge it in the citadel. E'en so / his fraud or Troy's dark fates were working for our woe."