How to Use kahuna in a Sentence

kahuna

noun
  • And the big kahuna of them all, the Oscars, are just around the corner.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2021
  • As the story goes, the Lanai kahuna burned everything to keep his fire alight.
    Jackie Burrell, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
  • The big kahuna option is the carbon fiber track package.
    Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2020
  • And Intel, the big chip kahuna, isn’t sitting idly by either.
    Robert Hackett, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2018
  • While there are other area codes that service Houston, 713 will always be the big kahuna around these parts.
    Sonia Ramirez, Chron, 12 July 2021
  • While there are other area codes that service Houston, 713 will always be the big kahuna around these parts.
    Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
  • The big kahuna of beer festivals in Oregon, and among the largest in the country, the Oregon Brewers Festivals is a must-visit for any beer lover.
    Samantha Bakall | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 17 Jan. 2018
  • The orphan sounded the alarm as soon as the apparition materialized, just as the kahuna had instructed.
    Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2019
  • Porgy swim along the U.S. coast in large numbers, blissfully unknown to many American diners, while shrimp, tuna and salmon, often from thousands of miles away, remain the big kahunas.
    Deena Shanker, Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2017
  • The big kahuna obviously is Walton, a walking, talking eccentric who specializes in throwing out a non sequitur or two during the heat of a game.
    Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Amazon’s speed of delivery can feel like magic sometimes, but the severe Texas freeze has kept even the big kahuna of disruptors from operating in some of its biggest markets.
    Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
  • But the big kahuna is $436 billion for state, local, territorial and tribal governments.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
  • The local health care community is bracing for what Providence, the big kahuna of local hospital operators, will do.
    oregonlive, 8 May 2020
  • But the universal charitable deduction is probably the big kahuna among the tax policy issues.
    Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021

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