How do you use prodigal in a sentence?

In a prodigious display of athleticism, he won his first quarter mile race by several seconds.

He was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his prodigious success with innovative cancer drugs.

From a very young age her grace and skill as a dancer reached prodigious proportions, but she chose instead to become a nuclear engineer.

Did Earl Woods have any idea that his son would eventually have such a prodigious, young golfer?