How to Use mind-boggling in a Sentence

mind-boggling

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  • The two errors gave him a league-high 13 for the season, and a mind-boggling 11 of those have come on throws.
    Julian McWilliams, BostonGlobe.com, 3 June 2023
  • Just one light-year away from Earth is mind-boggling far away.
    Danya Gainor, CNN, 31 Mar. 2023
  • Of course, much of this seems mind-boggling in retrospect.
    Gillian Silverman, The New Yorker, 15 July 2023
  • But let’s press pause on that mind-boggling story line for a second to check in with Bud and Henry.
    Erin Qualey, Vulture, 27 Mar. 2024
  • That’s the sort of mind-boggling chart feat that Swift, and only Swift, is routinely adding to her resumé.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 18 July 2023
  • No doubt, some of the data represent mind-boggling shifts after the results of the 2020 election.
    William A. Galston, WSJ, 7 Nov. 2023
  • Rebeck also wants to use plants—their resilience, their need for space and care—as a metaphor, but this show is a mind-boggling misfire.
    Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The Kirkland’s collection is mind-boggling, thanks to Chambers and Grant.
    Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
  • But the pricing today with parking, etc. is over $300, a mind-boggling increase.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2023
  • But Disney spent a mind-boggling $295 million to bring the action-adventure to life.
    Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 28 June 2023
  • All the same, the cumulative numbers are mind-boggling.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 Apr. 2024
  • But the proxy offers glimpse at the mind-boggling wealth disparity between its workers and one of the world’s richest men.
    Alexandra Olson, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2023
  • But the proxy offers glimpse at the mind-boggling wealth disparity between its nonunion workers and one of the world’s richest men.
    Alexandra Olson, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Sep. 2023
  • There will be no spoiler here to that mind-boggling story and its unexpected twists and turns.
    Christopher Knight, Los Angeles Times, 30 May 2023
  • But Brazil’s very promise, in Latin American terms, is mind-boggling.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 27 Nov. 2023
  • People in New Hampshire are the most desperate to live the millionaire lifestyle, willing to give up a mind-boggling 7 years and 11 months.
    Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 21 Feb. 2024
  • This tape provides a mind-boggling cap to the first season of one of the more intriguing new sci-fi series in recent memory.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 6 July 2023
  • And 2024 happens to be a big year for the skies, from mind-boggling eclipses to spectacular meteor showers.
    Condé Nast Traveller, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 Dec. 2023
  • The crazy wealth and power that some individuals have is mind-boggling.
    Marlow Stern, Rolling Stone, 11 Mar. 2023
  • Tiffany was doing the best job of managing threat level — other than the idol and the fact that people wanted to vote out their number-ones, which is still mind-boggling to me.
    Dalton Ross, EW.com, 20 May 2024
  • Plus, having someone navigate the industry the way RZA did is just mind-boggling.
    Spin Staff, SPIN, 31 May 2023
  • The numbers that will come out this year — averaging around 1 million per acre over hundreds of millions of acres across 16 states — are mind-boggling.
    CBS News, 2 Apr. 2024
  • The jump in revenue, for example, is mind-boggling and points to both the health and popularity of the game, as does the fourfold increase in FIFA’s reserves.
    Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
  • But the task of a quarterback calling plays for an entire game in today’s NFL would be mind-boggling in its complexities.
    Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 22 Sep. 2023
  • Early player reviews of the game have noted a few quest-blocking bugs but also a mind-boggling amount of reactivity to the world, the NPCs, and the quest design.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 21 Oct. 2023
  • The sheer audacity of this is mind-boggling and also distributing.
    Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 17 July 2024
  • But from above, the view is mind-boggling: Hundreds of trees are arranged in perfect concentric arcs, all spiraling toward the center.
    Christophe Haubursin, Vox, 9 May 2024
  • The scale of change required to remake the systems that power the United States — all the infrastructure that needs to be removed, re-engineered and replaced — is mind-boggling.
    New York Times, 17 Aug. 2023
  • The nation's tallest indoor aqualoop is a body slide that launches riders around a mind-boggling, 360-degree loop with onlookers in clear view thanks to translucent fiberglass.
    Carly Caramanna, Chron, 11 May 2023
  • That anyone with the good taste to attend one of his concerts would behave so badly — let alone pay good money for two front-row tickets from which to behave so badly — is mind-boggling.
    George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Oct. 2023

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