How to Use gargantuan in a Sentence

gargantuan

adjective
  • 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
  • The gargantuan gourd could produce at least 687 pies, per the AP.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • 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
  • The truth is that even that gargantuan number hides the real cost of their plans.
    Wsj Editorial Staff, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
  • But the bike’s range promises to be just as gargantuan.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The next step was the gargantuan task of restoring the castle to its former glory.
    Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The larger the donut, the more power is produced; thus ITER’s gargantuan size.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
  • The floor is a gargantuan LED display of a clouded sky.
    New York Times, 20 May 2022
  • This is a gargantuan shift in what that mechanic used to be.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Heathrow is gargantuan and not an easy airport to find your way around.
    Shivani Vora, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • But in preparing for a gargantuan game, Bowness made sure the ghosts of 2020 were still alive.
    Matthew Defranks, Dallas News, 2 May 2021
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • And today is my swan song to big birds, gargantuan game, f—ing huge feathered friends.
    Flora Lichtman, Scientific American, 7 June 2023
  • 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
  • The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are a gargantuan one-in-302.6 million.
    CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The target was Brazil and its gargantuan forests, which farmers often set ablaze to clear land.
    BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • There's just one problem: The winner hasn't picked up their gargantuan prize yet.
    Zoe Sottile, CNN, 30 Aug. 2022
  • Along the walls are the 26 names of those who lost their lives that night, quotes from survivors and the story of the gargantuan recovery efforts that ensued.
    Heide Brandes, Chron, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Nothing gargantuan in terms of on-court production to make this race a blowout.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The gargantuan rock stands almost 500 feet taller than the Burj Khalifa -- the world's tallest building.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN, 21 Nov. 2021
  • Craig’s gargantuan tusks swooped low, and his hide seemed to glow with a rich reddish dust that set him apart from the other males trooping nearby.
    Paul Brady, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2024
  • The gargantuan black hole, which is said to have the mass of 30 billion suns, is located at the center of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
  • This gargantuan cloud propelled a chimney of smoke into the stratosphere, as high as 10 miles up.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 21 July 2024
  • Daemon comes to face one of these dragons, a gargantuan beast that belches fire up towards the cave's stone ceiling.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • At the cockroach, at the gargantuan goldfish, at the one and only Carmelita Tropicana!
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 10 Nov. 2024
  • Cronin supersized his lineup later in the half when Aday Mara, a 7-foot-3 sophomore, entered the game and quickly made his gargantuan presence felt.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 5 Nov. 2024

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