How to Use staggering in a Sentence

staggering

adjective

• The storm caused a staggering amount of damage.
• The short but scenic Wedge Hill Trail climbs the rocky slopes above for staggering views.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2024
• Putting the cost aside, the sheer waste of this many PCs being junked is staggering.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes, 17 Aug. 2024
• Boasts one of the top goal scoring margins in the entire state at 65-4, a staggering stat.
  — Logan Stanley, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
• These days, a staggering range of creams, serums, masks, and peels exist for the same purpose.
  — Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 25 Sep. 2024
• But how will the various loose ends be tied over the course of the series' staggering 90-minute swan song?
  — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 26 May 2023
• The clarity, heft and scale of the action is staggering.
  — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
• Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, at a staggering cost.
  — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 26 May 2023
• The ambition is staggering, and that’s not a bad thing.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 30 Nov. 2022
• If the volume was staggering, so, too, was the quality of it all.
  — Robin Muir, Vogue, 27 Oct. 2022
• The premiere of the first half of Season 5 pulled in a staggering 17 million viewers.
  — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
• In just a single day, a staggering $42 billion streamed out of SVB on March 9.
  — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
• As a result, Europe has stumbled along for years and is now staggering, thanks, in part, to the VAT.
  — WSJ, 7 Feb. 2023
• All of this amounts to a staggering amount of money and raises the question of how Crypto.com is paying for all this.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2022
• The sheer quantity of works that fetched more than $20 million—a third of the 60 lots, to be precise—was staggering.
  — Katya Kazakina, Town & Country, 14 Nov. 2022
• But if Democrats needed a staggering amount of luck to have a chance, since the latter half of June, luck has broken their way.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 14 Sep. 2022
• Feds seize 'staggering' amount of fake Adderall pills laced with meth.
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 20 Sep. 2022
• But all those computers burn staggering amounts of power—and make a lot of noise.
  — David Pogue, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2024
• On the flip side, robots have done an admirable job of closing that gap with staggering speed.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2024
• The verdict, though not its staggering amount, was inevitable.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
• The costs to Russia—in people and equipment are staggering.
  — Dustin Volz, WSJ, 11 Oct. 2022
• Even to the untrained eye, the difference between the warmed and unwarmed plots is staggering.
  — Zak Podmore, The Salt Lake Tribune, 5 Dec. 2022
• The scale of the threat is staggering, with over one-third of shark and ray species facing extinction due to overfishing alone.
  — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
• If so, the relief to Musk and blow to Twitter’s shareholders would be staggering.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 27 Aug. 2022
• The lake will need to rise by about 11 feet to reach that magic number, a staggering amount considering the lake’s size.
  — Leia Larsen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 14 Oct. 2022
• The latter is a gospel music icon with a staggering 19 Grammys to his credit.
  — Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 30 Oct. 2024
• In terms of large top prizes in a lottery, the biggest ever was seen last month in the U.S., when a staggering $2.04 billion was won in the Powerball lottery.
  — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 22 Dec. 2022
• According to my spouse, the staggering amount of air traffic in Vegas means her private jet might not be able in land.
  — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
• To achieve this status, guests must sail at least 2000 nights on the cruise line, meaning each spends the staggering equivalent of at least five calendar years at sea.
  — Irene S. Levine, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
• Baker at first gives us a whirlwind, screwball romance; then, after spinning us around a few times, leads us to one of those great movie endings that’s both staggering and gentle.
  — Stephanie Zacharek, TIME, 31 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024