How to Use magnitude in a Sentence

magnitude

noun

• The magnitude of the loss of a 30-plus year friendship.
  — Jennifer Yuma, Variety, 24 Sep. 2021
• And, of course, the chance to work on a telescope of that magnitude was unique.
  — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• But its magnitude was felt all across the sports world.
  — Dallas News, 15 Oct. 2020
• Something of this magnitude must be tackled by the feds and the states.
  — cleveland, 1 June 2021
• The amount of moved earth in a magnitude 7.8 quake can be eye-popping.
  — Los Angeles Times, 25 July 2019
• This would be the third bump of that magnitude in a row, and a fourth may well come before the year is out.
  — Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2022
• Since these two fields have the same magnitude, the net field would be zero.
  — Wired, 31 July 2022
• This is still year, but home field for the playoffs is at stake in a game of this magnitude.
  — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2021
• The public deserves to know the magnitude of this guy’s bad faith.
  — Grayson Quay, The Week, 18 Apr. 2022
• The success of a summit of this magnitude isn't measured in a day.
  — Eric Talmadge, Fox News, 10 June 2018
• Those shifts have been dramatic: rarely are changes of this magnitude seen in the course of a few weeks.
  — Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
• Most of the earthquakes have been smaller with a magnitude less than 4.
  — Sarah Rumpf, Fox News, 3 Aug. 2022
• What was the preparation like for a project of this magnitude?
  — Mark Elibert, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2022
• The next time an asteroid of this magnitude will come that close to Earth is a decade from now.
  — Fox News, 24 Sep. 2019
• But hosting an event of this magnitude comes at a cost.
  — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
• Jurado didn’t have much time to soak in the magnitude of being called up to the big leagues.
  — Drew Davison, star-telegram, 19 May 2018
• The challenges to come would dwarf that episode by orders of magnitude.
  — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2020
• Five earthquakes with a magnitude of more than 3 have been recorded in the area.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 18 July 2022
• When a star of this magnitude explodes, its brightness shoots through the roof.
  — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2023
• To be clear, the smart thing to do with a payday of that magnitude is to invest it and live off the interest.
  — Bychris Morris, Fortune, 20 Mar. 2024
• So the magnitude of the scope of this attack is really quite large.
  — Sara Moniuszko, CBS News, 12 Mar. 2024
• There are simply no words to convey the magnitude of this tragedy.
  — Jill Smolowe, PEOPLE.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• Since that time, a larger (magnitude 6.2) quake took place in Chile.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2023
• That a kill notice of this magnitude happened is a big deal.
  — Mia Sato, The Verge, 12 Mar. 2024
• Red circles show earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater in the past year.
  — National Geographic, 23 June 2020
• Given the magnitude of its spread, no amount of caution can be enough.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 12 Mar. 2020
• It’s hard to convey the sheer magnitude of what happened.
  — Andrew Sullivan, Daily Intelligencer, 20 Feb. 2018
• This record-breaking seizure is the second drug bust of this magnitude within the last three months.
  — Salma Reyes, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2020
• His major miss, however, is in the magnitude of the change.
  — WSJ, 15 June 2023
• The eruption also caused a 5.8 magnitude earthquake off the coast.
  — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 13 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 9 May 2024