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.
  • 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
  • Then an enormous blast went off, sending a plume of dust and smoke into the air.
    Kevin Sieff, Washington Post, 28 Dec. 2023
  • Even if there’s a settlement, the bill will be enormous.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2024
  • 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
  • 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
  • The problem is that understanding what policies are out there, and what works and what doesn’t, is an enormous task.
    Stephen Armstrong, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2024
  • The canoe is now in Oahu, where it is being repainted and fitted with an enormous new flag.
    Karin Brulliard, Washington Post, 11 Sep. 2023
  • Deir al Balah has also seen an enormous influx of the displaced.
    Zach Levitt, New York Times, 26 Dec. 2023
  • Because Antarctic ice is thousands of feet thick, the flow of a single glacier into the sea could have an enormous impact.
    WIRED, 27 Oct. 2023
  • On the other hand, there should be no doubt that the Justice Department has an enormous breadth of discretion.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 21 June 2023
  • Jorge Luis Borges reviewed imaginary books to overcome the enormous weight of the forebears who obsessed him.
    Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 11 Sep. 2023
  • In an age of mass extinction, people are going to enormous lengths to put species back into place.
    Dino Grandoni and Melina Mara, Anchorage Daily News, 11 Sep. 2023
  • There's an enormous degree of variation in hues, though.
    Melanie Lieberman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2024
  • The specter of hotter and more frequent heat waves raises enormous concerns about public health.
    Andrea Thompson, Scientific American, 25 July 2023
  • This week, one Stanley stan crossed a line by stealing 65 of the enormous, portable water jugs.
    Li Goldstein, Bon Appétit, 26 Jan. 2024
  • The enormous amount of nicotine in e-cigarettes — up 76% over five years — can addict kids in a matter of days, Koval said.
    Liz Szabo | Kff Health News, NBC News, 21 June 2023
  • Past enlargements have shown the enormous benefits both for the accession countries and the EU.
    Reuters, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2023
  • After enormous demonstrations in Barcelona and a tense national climate, the heads of the movement balked.
    Jason Horowitz, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • And the judge presiding over the enormous group of AFFF lawsuits has hundreds of other cases to get through that were not brought by water providers.
    Zoya Teirstein / Grist, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Because the half-hour drive to the medical center would have been too long, the ambulance met an enormous ECPR truck at a midway point.
    Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024
  • That year was already a record-breaker, with the U.S. building out an enormous 28 gigawatts of solar and wind power.
    Time, 2 Aug. 2023

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