How to Use enormity in a Sentence

enormity

noun

• We were shocked at the enormity of the crime.
• They didn't fully grasp the enormity of their decision.
• To give you a sense of the enormity of that number, that's the amount of passengers that can fill most regional airplanes.
  — Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 5 July 2017
• The Durango showed its age against the field in numerous ways, mostly in its sheer enormity.
  — Jeff Sabatini, Car and Driver, 13 July 2017
• Forget your politics for a moment, and consider the enormity of what’s happening here.
  — Conor Friedersdorf, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2017
• Despite the enormity of the problem at hand, members of the panel and the audience expressed optimism for the future.
  — Lee V. Gaines, chicagotribune.com, 1 Sep. 2017
• Below are some photos from Sierra Leone and South Asia that give a sense of the enormity of the catastrophes there.
  — Max Bearak, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2017
• However, given the enormity of the universe, even that incomprehensible number doesn't fill up much of the total volume.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 11 July 2017
• The enormity of the animals, which seems obvious while observing them in the field, suddenly becomes a cold reality when a big carcass is lying in a muskeg swamp.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 23 Aug. 2017
• Even though the heavy rain had departed and glimmers of hope - along with glimpses of the sun - had returned to Houston, officials were still struggling to define the enormity of what had happened.
  — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, 30 Aug. 2017
• The enormity of the problem—notably in Italy, where sour loans more than doubled in six years to €350 billion—caused a crisis of confidence in southern banks last year.
  — Nektaria Stamouli, WSJ, 8 Aug. 2017
• But given the enormity and ambiguity of creating one, Davis and her colleagues are focusing on one thing at a time, starting with transportation.
  — Katie Jackson, Fox News, 10 July 2017
• Yet for the enormity of the colony, the individuals within it are not especially giant and may be downright tiny, ranging from 10 inches to just a few millimeters.
  — Jennifer Frazer, Scientific American Blog Network, 10 July 2017
• There is no escaping what happened in ’67 — despite history books not teaching about it or most people not understanding the enormity of the brutality that led to it.
  — Rochelle Riley, Detroit Free Press, 29 July 2017
• The world has yet to grasp the enormity of the issue at hand.
  — Surendra Patawari, Fortune, 13 June 2020
• The study/joint commentary in the Lancet doesn't mince words on the enormity of the task.
  — Sy Mukherjee, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2019
• Thule tourism lies in the enormity of the history of the search for Thule.
  — F. Salazar, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Sep. 2020
• That flag Ajayi wore was one more symbol of the enormity of the whole thing.
  — Mike Jensen, Philly.com, 5 Feb. 2018
• That’s why DuVall is quick to point out the enormity of the task the pair took on with these roles.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 11 Oct. 2022
• The enormity of that loss, if the judge agrees with it, could add many years in prison to Ms. Holmes’s sentence.
  — Heather Somerville, WSJ, 18 Nov. 2022
• The enormity of that event was the most challenging part for me.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 30 Mar. 2023
• We have been told that the heart can go numb in response to such enormity.
  — Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2021
• The sheer enormity of the task was such a daunting challenge.
  — CBS News, 28 Sep. 2019
• The member said that the stress of the loss, coupled with the enormity of the leaks, has left him worried and sleepless.
  — Shane Harris and Samuel Oakford, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Apr. 2023
• But there is no playbook for the enormity of the challenge.
  — Aniruddha Ghosal, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Jan. 2021
• The sheer enormity of what Emil had faced, endured, and overcome had us all in awe and on the verge of tears.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 12 May 2021
• Though Ben might be a savvy big-city guy, the enormity of Texas is a new concept for him.
  — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 29 July 2022
• That’s the outsized enormity of a handful of weeks in March.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Mar. 2021
• My biggest job was to keep my playfulness alive and to not get overwhelmed by the enormity of the task.
  — Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2024
• In a city where plenty of hotels could stake a claim to be the biggest and boldest, the sheer enormity of the complex—which opened in 2015 as a sleeker, more contemporary alternative to the city’s grande dame hotels—is a sight in and of itself.
  — Liam Hess, Vogue, 5 July 2024

Last Updated: 16 Nov 2024