Formidable in example sentence

Six feisty old folks -- blind Peter Brocco, hard-working superintendent Ian Wolfe and his nagging wife Ruth McDermott, kindly writer William Hansen, agoraphobic eccentric Frances Fuller and fierce, formidable old battle ax Paula Trueman -- refuse to leave their crumbling tenement building despite the fact that it's going to be demolished to make way for expensive high-rise apartment complexes.

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And so given these formidable obstacles, one might wonder and worry whether one will ever be able to decipher the Indus script.

And eventually you get to places where it is formidable and dangerous and unfortunately slides just don't do justice.

That means I need to know how I tick, when I collapse, where my formidable points are, where my weaker points are.

This high school dropout died at the age of 82, a formidable intellectual, cofounder and first CEO of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and founder of Schocken Books, an acclaimed imprint that was later acquired by Random House.

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