How to Use copious in a Sentence

copious

adjective

• The storm produced a copious amount of rain.
• She sat in the front row and took copious notes during the lecture.
• The wrath of many of these storms extended far inland due to their swaths of copious rainfall.
  — Washington Post, 29 Sep. 2021
• The sport is played either outside or in bustling, noisy bars -- with copious amounts of alcohol.
  — Lucy Sherriff, CNN, 8 Sep. 2021
• Some of the quotes are new, from Rubin’s copious interviews, but the stories are not.
  — Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2021
• Our Thoughts: Cheese lovers will appreciate the copious amounts of cheese on this thin-crust pizza.
  — cleveland, 20 Sep. 2021
• Although the scale is not entirely clear, there appear to be book or larger sized blocks that were thrown out of the geyser as well as copious finer debris.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 23 July 2024
• People infected with the alpha variant had copious amounts of virus in their nose and throat, much more than those infected with the original virus.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 1 Oct. 2021
• QB Dak Prescott received copious credit last year for carrying this team early.
  — Nate Davis, USA TODAY, 5 Oct. 2021
• Its Brutalist aesthetic, all sloped angles and copious amounts of concrete, is right out of the Ken Adam playbook.
  — CNN, 20 Sep. 2021
• Halloween is excellent for a lot of reasons — crisp and cool fall air, scary movie marathons, an ongoing and perfectly reasonable excuse to eat copious amounts of candy.
  — Amanda Richards, PEOPLE.com, 7 Oct. 2021
• This includes copious amounts of job changes, quality-of-life elements, user interface adjustments, and more.
  — Hayes Madsen, Rolling Stone, 12 July 2024
• Yusaku and his nephew Fumio (Ryota Bando) are also taking copious trips outside Japan.
  — Robert Daniels, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2021
• Such was more or less the case of navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard, who passed on copious classified secrets to Israel.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2021
• Surrounding Diplo was a dazzling LED and strobe frame; there also were steam fountains and copious confetti.
  — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 17 Sep. 2021
• That plus the smell of the wood fire and the copious amount of lard on everything is amazing.
  — Jorge Valencia Mariano Fernandez, New York Times, 14 Nov. 2023
• And that’s not even in reference to the blood and gore, of which there are copious amounts.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, Detroit Free Press, 29 Oct. 2021
• But there's no need to overdo it and slather your body in copious amounts of cream.
  — Elise Tabin, Harper's BAZAAR, 6 Dec. 2022
• The tour was, like many in those days, fueled by copious amounts of cocaine.
  — Matt Wake | [e-mail], al, 27 Feb. 2023
• Gothcore for lovers of the dark aesthetic and copious amounts of black.
  — Gabi Thorne, Allure, 8 Dec. 2022
• The $2 Bud Lights were consumed in copious amounts and with passion.
  — Ivan Carter, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Oct. 2021
• Nolan read the 720-page book once through, secured the screen rights to it, read it through again and then once more, this time taking copious notes.
  — Jeffrey Kluger, TIME, 29 Jan. 2024
• The fire, driven by the wind, had thrown off copious amounts of embers into the dry grasses, some of them said.
  — Mike Baker, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2023
• Chef Josh Buckwald folds in copious amounts of chives and thyme to add freshness.
  — Kara Peeler, Sunset Magazine, 1 May 2024
• And there is some lip-locking through copious blue paint.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 31 Mar. 2023
• Fourth of July weekend is here, which means the days are sure to be filled with copious platters of hot dogs and plenty of time in the pool.
  — Amy Schulman, Peoplemag, 4 July 2023
• The xiaolongbao dumplings — made with chicken, pork or crab — come out of the dough with a copious squirt of spicy sauce.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 6 Dec. 2021
• My colleagues were more than gracious enough to take some time out of their day to taste-test copious amounts of chocolate.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 10 May 2023
• Russian men came into shops on the street to buy food and copious amounts of alcohol.
  — Anastacia Galouchka, Washington Post, 14 Nov. 2022
• Simply squirt copious amounts of sriracha into an 8-ounce tub of sour cream.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 13 Feb. 2022

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024