How to Use gargantuan in a Sentence
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And what if part of the appeal is a gargantuan cache of coins and gold?
—Chad Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
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Aikens flipped a switch, rerouting the exhaust to inflate the gargantuan tires, and the Sherp rolled to the edge of the river.
—Josh Condon, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2022
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The gargantuan gourd could produce at least 687 pies, per the AP.
—Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
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The pit itself is gargantuan: more than a mile wide, 2 miles long, and most of a mile deep.
—Vince Beiser, WIRED, 22 Aug. 2024
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Based on the bones of the mid-size Chevrolet Colorado pickup truck, the H3 weighed about a ton less than the gargantuan H2.
—Ben Stewart, Popular Mechanics, 25 Oct. 2020
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The truth is that even that gargantuan number hides the real cost of their plans.
—Wsj Editorial Staff, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
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But the bike’s range promises to be just as gargantuan.
—Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2024
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And swing by Que Viet on the way for one of their gargantuan egg rolls on a stick, one of my crispy-crunchy fair faves.
—Nicole Hvidsten, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
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The more it is denied by Cassilly, the more gargantuan the need for it in Gahler’s mind.
—Aegis Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024
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The machine was the size of a school bus, a mint green, gargantuan mass of steel weighing 27 tons, about as much as an M3 Bradley tank.
—Andy Greenberg, Wired, 23 Oct. 2020
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The next step was the gargantuan task of restoring the castle to its former glory.
—Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 26 Oct. 2022
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The larger the donut, the more power is produced; thus ITER’s gargantuan size.
—IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
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The floor is a gargantuan LED display of a clouded sky.
—New York Times, 20 May 2022
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This is a gargantuan shift in what that mechanic used to be.
—Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
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Heathrow is gargantuan and not an easy airport to find your way around.
—Shivani Vora, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
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The cost is indeed gargantuan, but so is the cost of deep recessions.
—The Economist, 20 June 2020
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But in preparing for a gargantuan game, Bowness made sure the ghosts of 2020 were still alive.
—Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 2 May 2021
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At their gargantuan sizes, manta rays have only the most plus-sized of predators to fear, and many survive decades in the wild.
—Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
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The Frog Pond is a stage shaded by a gargantuan, ancient cedar tree that leans over it as if shielding it.
—al, 29 Oct. 2021
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His job is to dream the future, and then to marshal the city’s gargantuan bureaucracy to get those dreams built.
—Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
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This was perhaps for the best, given the gargantuan cigar-store Indian at the plan’s heart.
—Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
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The task is a gargantuan one for the U.S. government, which on Sunday had been bracing for the prospect of an abrupt shutdown.
—Tony Romm, Rachel Siegel, Anchorage Daily News, 28 Dec. 2020
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That’s a testament to the gargantuan scale of the Eras tour, as well as how enormous Swift is right now in general.
—Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 June 2023
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And today is my swan song to big birds, gargantuan game, f—ing huge feathered friends.
—Flora Lichtman, Scientific American, 7 June 2023
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Wallis has some players to work with and will face the gargantuan task of finding one to step into Fine's shoes.
—Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2020
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The brave ones held out stalks of celery for the four brown-and-white cows, whose gargantuan tongues elicited shrieks, followed by screams of amazement.
—Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2021
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The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are a gargantuan one-in-302.6 million.
—CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
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The target was Brazil and its gargantuan forests, which farmers often set ablaze to clear land.
—BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
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First introduced as he’s getting fired from his nightclub job — maintaining an absurd, gargantuan fish tank that the joint’s owner has deemed a bad investment — Doug seems to take the bad news in sloth-like acceptance.
—J. Kim Murphy, Variety, 18 Mar. 2025
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Whales in turn play a role in the marine carbon cycle, sequestering CO2 in their gargantuan bodies while pooping in such great quantities as to stimulate the growth of other carbon-consuming organisms.
—Bloomberg, The Mercury News, 18 Mar. 2025
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