How to Use humdinger in a Sentence

humdinger

noun

• The last storm was a real humdinger!
• I hear we're in for another humdinger of a storm!
• That was a humdinger, wasn’t it?’’ Flynn said postgame.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 2 Apr. 2020
• The wheels come off in the first scene – normally a humdinger, here just humdrum.
  — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
• That was during the last warming El Niño episode — which was a real humdinger.
  — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2018
• Why, goodness gracious, great balls of fire, that’s a humdinger of a show at Osceola Arts.
  — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2021
• Any day is a good day to get loose at the Torch Club, but this annual humdinger always produces one of their best slates of tunes.
  — Aaron Davis, sacbee, 25 May 2018
• The script is aces, too, filled with humdingers that Hall tears into ferociously.
  — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2017
• Helles Real had a humdinger of a road to the title, plowing through some tough competition.
  — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2023
• It’s a bona fide humdinger of a black comedy by Martin McDonagh, that master conductor on the route to bloody ends.
  — Washington Post, 22 Apr. 2022
• Oršić’s goal was the fifth in an eight-goal humdinger with Spain, the highest-scoring match witnessed in the competition since the very first: a 5–4 win for Yugoslavia over France, sixty-one summers ago.
  — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 2 July 2021
• The Sondheim and Furth musical with incredible songs and a humdinger of a premise tells the story of a dissolving three-way friendship in reverse.
  — Vulture, 31 Aug. 2022
• After a humdinger of a first season, the current chapter of USA Network’s hacker psych-drama has been routinely falling flat.
  — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2016
• After a harrowing kayak ride, Mandrick makes a humdinger of a find, a shocking climax to the story that readers will see as if through binoculars from several miles away or will kick themselves for missing.
  — Helene Stapinski, New York Times, 1 June 2018
• But this University of California audit was a humdinger.
  — Steven Greenhut, Orange County Register, 30 Apr. 2017
• An unexpected humdinger of an emergency connects Alice with the taciturn, remote Rooker, who might find his own salvation with her.
  — Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
• His inclusion of a humdinger as the finale is surprising and effective; a sequence in which the heavy is caught against an amusement park background on a crazily careening merry-go-round whose operator has been downed by a bullet.
  — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2017

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024