How to Use gigantic in a Sentence

gigantic

adjective
  • Hummel said the team, which has no seniors, has already made gigantic strides to just qualify for state.
    Chris Bieri, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Mar. 2022
  • It’s composed of a gigantic grey triangle with two chimney-like forms protruding from its flattened top.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • Over the last few years, the stock market repeatedly hit near-record gains and returns that have been nothing short of gigantic for many investors.
    Joe Fisher, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2022
  • At times, the vehicles are creating gigantic traffic jams.
    New York Times, 19 Mar. 2022
  • This is unprecedented in volume in the erasure of geographic borders with these gigantic streamers.
    Sharareh Drury, Variety, 11 Mar. 2022
  • So Chris: the, the, the, everybody that’s ever been out there, which is most people have parked in that gigantic parking lot on the one side of the building, but that’s going to change.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 8 Mar. 2022
  • The communique was aimed specifically at the bloc's gigantic imports of Russian natural gas.
    Shawn Tully, Fortune, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The polar vortex is a gigantic circular upper-air weather pattern in the Arctic that envelops the North Pole.
    Doyle Rice, USA TODAY, 19 Oct. 2024
  • The cryptocurrency thing to me just, just hits me as a gigantic Ponzi scheme because cryptocurrency, unlike real currency has no real value.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 25 Mar. 2022
  • And that one man had a gigantic impact on the rest of the world.
    Sonaiya Kelley, Los Angeles Times, 16 Aug. 2023
  • The end of The Fall Guy features a car jump across a gigantic canyon.
    Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 3 May 2024
  • Some cop shot a kid and sparked off this whole gigantic thing.
    Jordan A. Rothacker, SPIN, 20 Dec. 2023
  • His first day on the job ended with a gigantic splash, swinging for the fences to put the Suns right back in the mix.
    Shane Young, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • The gigantic part got filled in later, at least for me.
    Jordan Hoffman, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 July 2024
  • 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
  • In hindsight, that should have been a gigantic red flag.
    Chris Selley, WSJ, 30 Dec. 2022
  • The gigantic green iron gates that once controlled the entrance now litter the ground.
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 11 July 2024
  • The inner core is made up of hot dust and gigantic young star clusters.
    Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Aug. 2022
  • 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
  • An 11-year-old found the fossil of a gigantic ocean reptile.
    Morgan Haefner, Quartz, 18 Apr. 2024
  • There may not be a monster in your closet, but a gigantic mess in there could be just as scary.
    Megan Marples, CNN, 3 Aug. 2022
  • This was not the first of the gigantic ekranoplans devised by the Soviets.
    Kevin Koenig, Robb Report, 8 Feb. 2023
  • Starting with the financial crisis around 2008, the role of the Fed has been gigantic.
    New York Times, 26 May 2022
  • 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
  • Early on in the year, Jack, a high school student known for his massive TikTok following and entrepreneurial spirit, throws a gigantic rager that ends as one teen overdoses and the venue gets destroyed.
    Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 27 Sep. 2024

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