How to Use enormous in a Sentence

enormous

adjective
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  • They live in an enormous house.
  • We chose not to undertake the project because of the enormous costs involved.
  • 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
  • This guy Puffy, this guy is in an enormous amount of trouble.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 19 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • Rumble has spent an enormous amount of money to get to this point.
    — Kyle Khan-Mullins, Forbes, 20 Dec. 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
  • Pho at 135 comes in three sizes – medium, large and extra large – and medium is enormous.
    — Rand Richards Cooper, Hartford Courant, 10 Oct. 2022
  • 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
  • The area was densely built-up before the war and the enormous scale of damage means there are now huge mountains of rubble and debris everywhere.
    — Ivana Kottasová, CNN, 31 Jan. 2025
  • Despite the enormous expectations, Manning took a measured approach to his NIL deals.
    — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 31 Jan. 2025

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