Example Sentences

Examples are automatically compiled from online sources to show current usage. Read More Opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Recent Examples of immensity Horizons suggest the unencumbered immensity of the Midwest. Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025 The sheer immensity of the tent city is jaw-dropping, a hinterland oblivion of yurts and RVs, all stretching into the distance as far as the eye can see. Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025 The primitive black hole, however, doesn’t currently possess a voracious appetite to match its immensity. Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024 As bombs fell in the first months of the Blitz, an Australian sat in his London apartment drinking Calvados, reading accounts of early expeditions into his homeland, and likely experiencing for the first time an immensity of emptiness and a longing for the land of his childhood. Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for immensity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immensity
Noun
  • Recent data underscores the magnitude of the challenge.
    Masha Sedova, Forbes.com, 15 May 2025
  • Flares of this magnitude are uncommon, the service added.
    Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 15 May 2025
Noun
  • Hence cutting funding to grants that are subject to rigorous competition highlights the enormity of the problem that US science faces at this moment, relative to its geopolitical rivals, especially China.
    Shivaram Rajgopal, Forbes.com, 17 May 2025
  • However, both lawmakers stressed the enormity of the $12 billion deficit.
    Kate Wolffe, Sacbee.com, 15 May 2025

Browse Nearby Words

Cite this Entry

“Immensity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immensity. Accessed 23 May. 2025.

More from Merriam-Webster on immensity

Last Updated: - Updated example sentences
Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!