How to Use gigantic in a Sentence

gigantic

adjective
  • And that one man had a gigantic impact on the rest of the world.
    Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • Some cop shot a kid and sparked off this whole gigantic thing.
    Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The gigantic jump in interest rates is what has handed Musk the whip hand over the banks.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The Dodgers have a gigantic lead in the NL West, which means most of the games remaining lack a sense of urgency.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 31 Aug. 2023
  • But how do these gigantic creatures find patches of tiny krill in the first place?
    Laura Helmuth, Scientific American, 1 Apr. 2023
  • In the crypto cases, the money tree for shaking is the gigantic wealth of the movie stars and sports icons involved.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 8 May 2023
  • With two gigantic blockbusters in the mix, will this year’s awards inch back over the twenty-million mark for the first time since 2020?
    The New Yorker, 8 Mar. 2024
  • One of the highlights of Nexus House is the gigantic primary suite, which spans a whopping 1,000 square feet.
    Abby Montanez, Robb Report, 6 June 2023
  • To see a dugong is to want to hug a dugong, with its round body, gently curved flippers and gigantic smiling face.
    Danna Staaf, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Feb. 2024
  • The dress included a gigantic cutout in the middle that revealed her abs, the upper half of her thighs and her black thong.
    Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 20 Jan. 2024
  • The Oreo and Cookie shake ($11.95) features a cookies and cream milkshake base topped with a gigantic piece of rich cholate cake.
    Alex Darus, cleveland, 28 July 2023
  • The gigantic Goofy figure is installed at the entrance to World Showcase.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 2 Mar. 2023
  • The gigantic holes left by bombs dropped by planes cut across the trails that soldiers use to reach forward positions.
    Tyler Hicks Marc Santora, New York Times, 11 Oct. 2023
  • Reese, a rising junior with the Tigers, used a gigantic pair of scissors to cut a purple ribbon held across the main entrance to the court.
    Edward Lee, Baltimore Sun, 17 July 2023
  • This sauropod may have the longest neck of any animal ever to live on Earth and a gigantic body to match.
    Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 6 June 2023
  • Then came gigantic sweet-chestnut roots, yanked out of the ground like giants’ wisdom teeth.
    Town & Country, 28 Apr. 2023
  • The president, as the head of state and guardian of the constitution cannot allow such a gigantic crisis of the state and harm to the citizens.
    Rob Schmitz, NPR, 26 Feb. 2024
  • The event will feature gigantic balloons, drill teams, floats and marching bands.
    Carlos Rico, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Dec. 2023
  • The car's paint color appears to be an unspecified shade of green, and the gigantic wheels are coated in what looks like some type of bronze.
    Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 15 May 2023
  • There, drag-queens swirled in gigantic platform heels, while waitresses passed around trays of curly fries.
    Vulture, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Jupiter in Gemini If the largest planet of all occupies the sign of the Twins in your birth chart, your mind is a gigantic vessel of ideas, thoughts, and knowledge.
    Narayana Montúfar, Women's Health, 13 Aug. 2023
  • When the program is measured by cash-in versus cash-out to pay benefits, the program was a gigantic cash cow for decades.
    Scott Burns, Dallas News, 1 June 2023
  • But what will give them permission to rage against the straitjacket that has arrived, gigantic and blonde, to take its place?
    Leslie Jamison, The New Yorker, 29 July 2023
  • One after another, three gigantic puffs and then dumped in the ashtray.
    Corbin Smith, Rolling Stone, 13 Jan. 2024
  • His was a gigantic junkyard of cars (a recurring visual theme in his work) with a large claw hovering over the stage.
    Thania Garcia, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023
  • Fifty miles farther out is the Valley of Whales: gigantic fossils of whales and sharks from 40 million to 50 million years ago, when the Sahara was beneath the sea.
    Klara Glowczewska, Town & Country, 18 June 2023
  • The gigantic amount of money that is going into all forms of gambling, what percentage of the state is doing that?
    Staff Reports, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
  • The Neptune, Lumafield’s first scanner, is a hulking machine that looks like a gigantic black microwave oven at first glance.
    Sean Hollister, The Verge, 18 Mar. 2023
  • Case in point: that gigantic tree, which grows and grows, out of all proportion, until its tip disappears out of sight.
    The New Yorker, 17 Nov. 2023
  • Preparing for these trials and dealing with the civil lawsuits against him, it's been a gigantic time suck for him.
    Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2024

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