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sleeping giants

n. (sleeping giant English)

Usage examples of "sleeping giants".

The sleeping giants in the fields were being wrapped in protecfive sheeting by equally silent agtechs, but that was the only sign of peace.

Seeing the lush growth of trees in the ravines scoring the slopes, he found it hard to imagine the two mounts as menacing volcanoes, sleeping giants on the verge of spewing death and disaster in a burst of gaseous steam and molten rock.

His eyes roamed the landscape, seeking the once-familiar forms of the Sleeping Giants, the Questing Beast, the Centaur, the Dove, the Lion.

Around them, like the flanks of sleeping giants, the rolling land rose to rounded crests hundreds of feet high, barren, monotonous, and cold under a slatehued sky.

Around them, like the flanks of sleeping giants, the rolling land rose to rounded crests hun­.

On a cold December night with only my own headlights for company, the mountains sat like sleeping giants pressing close to the road.

The fire sped on a swirling dance of its own through a night-dark forest of sleeping giants.

To one side of the trade road, past the thorny hedgerow, trees hunched like sleeping giants on a hill.