How to Use enormous in a Sentence
enormous
adjective- They live in an enormous house.
- We chose not to undertake the project because of the enormous costs involved.
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The good—if not great—news is that there's been enormous progress.
— Men's Health, 17 May 2023 -
Here’s how the Big Ten cuts an enormous chunk right out of the Heart of Dixie.
— Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al, 8 Aug. 2023 -
And five enormous TVs play women’s sports, all the time.
— Katie C Reilly, ELLE, 27 July 2023 -
An enormous wing is mounted off the sides of the back window.
— Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 17 Aug. 2023 -
Smoke from the fire can be seen billowing on the east side of the enormous charred area.
— Terry Castleman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2024 -
At the bottom was a chain-link fence with an enormous hole.
— Blake Nelson, The Mercury News, 11 Nov. 2024 -
Then an enormous blast went off, sending a plume of dust and smoke into the air.
— Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023 -
The Netflix roast of Tom Brady proved to be an enormous hit with subscribers.
— Zack Sharf, Variety, 14 May 2024 -
Even if there’s a settlement, the bill will be enormous.
— Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024 -
For some, the last five years have been an enormous source of frustration.
— Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Oct. 2024 -
Connor sat at the center of the group of four men, holding up an enormous fish as the group all smiled.
— Raven Brunner, Peoplemag, 18 Aug. 2024 -
In the last 50 years, the state’s largest city and county underwent enormous change.
— Mike Gousha and John D. Johnson, Journal Sentinel, 27 June 2024 -
Turnout was enormous, the highest in more than thirty years.
— Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 7 Dec. 2024 -
The stakes of the debate are enormous: Harris and Trump are neck and neck in the polls, and this event may be their only match-up of the cycle.
— Ted Johnson, Deadline, 10 Sep. 2024 -
That’s a big part of why television networks pay enormous sums for the rights to telecast the Games.
— Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2024 -
The province had been one enormous killing field, and there was nothing neat and tidy about the aftermath of a B-52 strike.
— George Black, The New Republic, 19 Dec. 2022 -
All around her are enormous boulders in varying shades of gray.
— Ben Huff, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Apr. 2023 -
Custom woodwork abounds and enormous windows fill the home with light.
— Mark David, Robb Report, 18 Aug. 2023 -
The stakes for the nation were enormous, Mr. Hobbs said, because of the damage Mr. Trump had already done to faith in the nation’s elections.
— Jill Cowan, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2023 -
And that’s all aside from the enormous carbon footprint attached to these models.
— Sage Lazzaro, Fortune, 12 Sep. 2023 -
There are vessels that are stuck inside right now and there's an enormous amount of traffic that goes through there.
— Joel Rose, NPR, 27 Mar. 2024 -
Exercise: Striding down the street in an enormous fur coat.
— Grace Henes, The New Yorker, 29 Nov. 2023 -
The pressure can be enormous, and the skills and values you’re taught to internalize may not serve you well in the real world.
— Constance Grady, Vox, 5 Aug. 2024 -
Marles said there has been an enormous amount of progress in the submarine program.
— Lolita C. Baldor, Fortune, 4 Dec. 2023 -
The slight, lithe Lamb had enormous eyes, a pointed chin and, in an era of elaborate updos, wore her curly hair cut short.
— Clare McHugh, Washington Post, 28 May 2023 -
Men in white sailor’s caps and overalls gathered around a four-and-a-half-foot steel ball called the bathysphere as an enormous winch lifted it off the deck.
— Brad Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2023 -
Honda brought the Accord to the U.S. in 1977 with one enormous goal–to become the greatest-selling foreign car here.
— Austin Irwin, Car and Driver, 19 Dec. 2022 -
The professional divorce between Waters and BMG, terms of which are still being settled, has enormous financial implications for both the music publisher and the artist.
— Tatiana Siegel, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024
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