How to Use whopping in a Sentence

whopping

adjective

• The play was a whopping success.
• The car sped by at a whopping 110 miles per hour.
• And, of course, the blooms: The park is home to a whopping 862 wildflower species.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 23 Mar. 2023
• That totals to a whopping $18 million at the end of the season.
  — Maggie Horton, Country Living, 10 Sep. 2023
• And today, the queen frame is on sale for a whopping 70 percent off.
  — Toni Sutton, Peoplemag, 14 Feb. 2024
• Englert stayed in the game, pitched through the 10th inning and threw a whopping 46 pitches.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 15 Apr. 2023
• And for all of that, Greenberg's group paid a whopping $4 million for the franchise.
  — Chuck Murr, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• The running backs had a whopping 15 carries for 25 yards.
  — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 10 Sep. 2023
• And the chances that you’re impacted are high: A whopping 85% of the United States has hard water.
  — Sophia Panych, Allure, 2 Apr. 2024
• With a whopping 27 tracks, the project gives listeners a lot to sink their teeth into.
  — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 29 Mar. 2024
• Prices start at just $10 for my picks, with discounts up to a whopping 57 percent off.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 4 Oct. 2023
• The set, which comes with four bath towels, is on sale for just $10 apiece — which is a whopping 49 percent off.
  — Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 12 Apr. 2023
• UConn turned the ball over a whopping 25 times against Ohio State, and no way that happens if Bueckers is running the floor.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 26 Mar. 2023
• Choose from a whopping 27 colors, from bold cyan blue to classic dark brown.
  — Rachel Simon, Travel + Leisure, 3 Dec. 2023
• Eli Lilly sold a whopping $176 million of the weight loss drug Zepbound in just four weeks.
  — Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 7 Feb. 2024
• But his assists were offset by 17 team turnovers, off of which the Rockets scored a whopping 33 points.
  — Omari Sankofa Ii, Detroit Free Press, 2 Jan. 2024
• Overall, a whopping 53% hold at least one of these beliefs.
  — Mary Walrath-Holdridge, USA TODAY, 31 Aug. 2023
• The small business will personalize the names and amount of little cubs up to a whopping 10 kids.
  — Hannah Rice, Rolling Stone, 25 Oct. 2023
• This may create a thick enough cold wedge over D.C. to ensure snow all around, and sometimes a whopping amount at that.
  — Jeff Halverson, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2024
• The bundle comes with six rolls totaling a whopping 180 square feet.
  — Moriah Mason, Southern Living, 7 Dec. 2023
• Two weeks ago, a player in New Jersey won the first Mega Millions jackpot of the year: a whopping $1.13 billion.
  — USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2024
• Prices start at just $14, with discounts ranging up to a whopping 73 percent off.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 28 Jan. 2024
• Seasons three and four of Stranger Things saw a whopping 1.93 billion hours of streaming in total.
  — Clarisa Diaz, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2023
• But here's the real kicker – the support for these changes has taken a nosedive, going from a whopping 76% to a measly 44% in the same time frame.
  — Sherzod Odilov, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2023
• On their first day of business, Veretelnik and Gutierrez raked in a whopping $42 from the sale of her distinctive dumplings.
  — Paul Stephen, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Apr. 2023
• Over the course of its run, Curb earned a whopping 47 Emmy nominations, though so far it’s just won twice.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 14 Dec. 2023
• There are a whopping 134 stems that come in diverse shades of toffee, light orange, champagne, and sand.
  — Carly Totten, Better Homes & Gardens, 6 Oct. 2023
• Alabama added a whopping 26 mid-year transfers this year, many of which hit the field for the first time in spring practice on Monday.
  — Creg Stephenson | [e-mail], al, 24 Mar. 2023
• White rhino pregnancies last for a whopping 16 and 18 months.
  — Aliza Chasan, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2024
• The Apple Vision Pro comes in at a whopping $3,499, which is going to price out a majority of consumers who wish to try out the tech.
  — Swish Goswami, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 7 May 2024