How to Use whopper in a Sentence

whopper

noun

• That's a whopper of a diamond ring.
• He told us a real whopper.
• Duxbury was the spot where most of the whopper list salmon came from.
  — sacbee, 11 Sep. 2017
• There's no size limit for fish caught, but the ones brought in tend to be whoppers.
  — Tanya Wildt, Detroit Free Press, 9 Jan. 2024
• The whopper draws inspiration from the suit Miles Morales wears in the film.
  — Francisco Guzman, USA TODAY, 8 May 2023
• These gift ideas for moms who like to fish might help your mama hook a whopper.
  — Outdoor Life, 22 Mar. 2021
• In the case of this series, the whopper the guy tells is especially brazen.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 9 Feb. 2022
• So on this rare occasion, the whopper came home with me.
  — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 6 June 2017
• But the real whopper is to say that the Fed has been independent the past decade.
  — WSJ, 31 May 2018
• Based on media reports, though, that deal is set to be a whopper.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 8 June 2023
• The prospects of committing a whopper of an error are huge.
  — John Mariani, Forbes, 4 Aug. 2022
• And how many other whoppers are out there, waiting to be caught?
  — Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2020
• Oh, and the actual rematch is a whopper, with one of the very best endings in any sports movie.
  — Scott Mendelson, Forbes, 12 Nov. 2021
• Carry it like a suitcase thanks to that whopper of a handle on its side.
  — Jack Baruth, Popular Mechanics, 29 Mar. 2023
• If that sounds like quite a whopper to swallow, don’t worry.
  — N. K. Jemisin, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2015
• Glenn Kessler and The Post's fact-checking team run down all of Trump's whoppers and distortions...
  — Tory Newmyer, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2018
• But in this case, that decision is viewed as a whopper of a mistake.
  — Harry G. Broadman, Forbes, 31 Mar. 2023
• All that aside, this is always a whopper of a game atmosphere-wise and Beilein knows this.
  — Nick Baumgardner, Detroit Free Press, 12 Jan. 2018
• And yes, Claire is still his running mate, one of the bigger whoppers from last season.
  — Kristi Turnquist, OregonLive.com, 25 May 2017
• But 9-year-old Van Schwemer of Webster actually did reel in a whopper ... and has the video to prove it.
  — Danny Hermosillo, Houston Chronicle, 28 Aug. 2019
• Berran shot and the 214-inch whopper crashed within hearing distance.
  — Scott Bestul, Field & Stream, 9 Oct. 2020
• The whopper is Wisconsin's biggest ever for the prized-sport species.
  — Paul A. Smith, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2018
• Bradley Jerman was sitting in a tripod blind filming a few deer when this whopper showed up out of nowhere.
  — Pj Delhomme, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2020
• The whopper of a prehistoric predator grew to over 30 feet long (nearly ten meters) and weighed three tons.
  — Davide Bonadonna, National Geographic, 11 Jan. 2016
• If Enceladus is a tiddler among moons, Titan is a whopper.
  — The Economist, 7 Sep. 2017
• The four-year-old pet, named Trevor, went from wiener to whopper when a hole in its windpipe left air trapped under its skin in a rare condition.
  — Chris Stirewalt, Fox News, 1 June 2018
• Yet overall, corporate whoppers had a mixed time of it.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• His latest is a whopper: a jumbo turkey leg wrapped in a pretzel.
  — Dewayne Bevil, OrlandoSentinel.com, 3 July 2018
• The game, in which contestants spin for the chance to win cash and prizes while trying to avoid Whammy spaces that drain their banks, gets a small update with a whopper of a bonus round.
  — Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 20 July 2024
• Relations between Fox and the talk show host — who during his tenure at Fox lobbed such on-air whoppers as George Floyd died of a drug overdose — are said to be strained, to say the least.
  — Lachlan Cartwright, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024

Last Updated: 12 Nov 2024