How to Use gargantuan in a Sentence

gargantuan

adjective
  • The gargantuan gourd could produce at least 687 pies, per the AP.
    Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • But the bike’s range promises to be just as gargantuan.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2024
  • The next step was the gargantuan task of restoring the castle to its former glory.
    Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The larger the donut, the more power is produced; thus ITER’s gargantuan size.
    IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
  • This is a gargantuan shift in what that mechanic used to be.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Heathrow is gargantuan and not an easy airport to find your way around.
    Shivani Vora, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • His job is to dream the future, and then to marshal the city’s gargantuan bureaucracy to get those dreams built.
    Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • That’s a testament to the gargantuan scale of the Eras tour, as well as how enormous Swift is right now in general.
    Rania Aniftos, Billboard, 6 June 2023
  • And today is my swan song to big birds, gargantuan game, f—ing huge feathered friends.
    Flora Lichtman, Scientific American, 7 June 2023
  • The odds of winning the Mega Millions jackpot are a gargantuan one-in-302.6 million.
    CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
  • The gargantuan black hole, which is said to have the mass of 30 billion suns, is located at the center of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth.
    Ariana Garcia, Chron, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Daemon comes to face one of these dragons, a gargantuan beast that belches fire up towards the cave's stone ceiling.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2022
  • Mouse pads come in all sizes, from tiny micro squares to gargantuan desk-covering sheets.
    Harry Rabinowitz, Popular Mechanics, 29 Nov. 2022
  • From the time it was first unveiled on City Hall Plaza in November, the gargantuan piece of playground equipment has been turning heads.
    Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Aug. 2023
  • Nearby, a 1-month-old sleeps in a contented squish on his mother’s chest, and older kids weave through the tables with gargantuan squares of cake.
    Jennifer Brookland, Detroit Free Press, 30 May 2023
  • The former missile bay and launch control center now serve as a gargantuan garage and workshop.
    James A. Fussell, Kansas City Star, 31 Jan. 2024
  • And the gargantuan marine mammals made quite the entrance, gently striding through the blue waters.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 4 Feb. 2024
  • Despite their gargantuan effort, Russian troops failed to secure any gains on the ground.
    Dmytro Kuleba, Foreign Affairs, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The slump wall is moated in a fast current with dangerous eddies that can suck down the side of a boat, there’s a gargantuan amount of mass to be surveyed, and where the hell is the sulfur smell coming from?
    Cassidy Randall, Rolling Stone, 18 Feb. 2024
  • The universe has vast gulfs in space, gargantuan numbers of stars, and lastly, immense expanses of time.
    Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • The vacuum of space is a gargantuan freezer, and exposure to direct sunlight out there can be just as brutal as the cold.
    Elizabeth Rayne, Ars Technica, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Astronomers have discovered dozens of small ones and tens of gargantuan ones, but only a handful of midsize ones.
    Bydaniel Clery, science.org, 10 Nov. 2022
  • Now, a gargantuan blob of warm ocean water is rising from the depths of the Pacific and moving eastward along the equator, as seen in the animation above.
    Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 30 Apr. 2023
  • What once ranked as the priciest piece of residential real estate in the U.S. has been sold, and the gargantuan transaction has set a new record for the state of Connecticut.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 3 Aug. 2023
  • This gargantuan Seagate external hard drive should be enough to hold years' worth of your data and hundreds of feature-length movies.
    Sascha Brodsky, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2023
  • Keeping a gargantuan open kitchen filled to the brim with anything your family might want is clearly a luxury.
    Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Such is the power of these stones, brands are now selling lifestyle products inspired by their gargantuan treasures.
    Paige Reddinger, Robb Report, 22 Oct. 2022
  • What delights me the most about the ship are the two attachable Star Destroyers that give you a true perspective of the size scaling between the gargantuan ships that terrorized the galaxy.
    Tom Price, Popular Mechanics, 4 May 2023
  • By 2020, Medina’s gargantuan desert dump had become an open secret in Chile, stretching across dozens of acres.
    Julia Shipley, WIRED, 13 Jan. 2024
  • For now, there are no immediate plans to put the gargantuan relic back on public display.
    Rachel Nuwer, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Jan. 2024

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