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Examples of whopping in a Sentence
The play was a whopping success.
The car sped by at a whopping 110 miles per hour.
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In first place, Minicoy Island in India operates under a permit system that limits daily visitor numbers, and the island sits a whopping 18-hour boat ride (or a multi-hour charter-flight-and-boat combo) away from the mainland, a reality that tends to deter casual tourists.
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2026
Nishu Sood, a principal at the housing research firm John Burns Research and Consulting, notes that in the decade since 2015, inflation rose 37%, incomes rose 45%, and the cost of buying a home has gone up a whopping 115% (by comparison, renting an apartment has risen 43%).
—Jackie Cooperman, Architectural Digest, 16 June 2026
That cut included a whopping 25 minutes of footage previously thought to be lost.
—Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
The district owns a whopping 803 buildings, with an average age of approximately 85 years.
—Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 16 June 2026
Nishu Sood, a principal at the housing research firm John Burns Research and Consulting, notes that in the decade since 2015, inflation rose 37%, incomes rose 45%, and the cost of buying a home has gone up a whopping 115% (by comparison, renting an apartment has risen 43%).
—Jackie Cooperman, Architectural Digest, 16 June 2026
That cut included a whopping 25 minutes of footage previously thought to be lost.
—Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 16 June 2026
The district owns a whopping 803 buildings, with an average age of approximately 85 years.
—Joe Ferguson, Chicago Tribune, 15 June 2026
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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whopping. Accessed 18 Jun. 2026.
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whopping
adjective
whop·ping
ˈhwäp-iŋ 
ˈwäp-
: extremely large
got a whopping increase in his allowance
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