How to Use humongous in a Sentence

humongous

adjective
  • I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch.
  • At the dock, given its 30-foot beam, the 60 looks humongous.
    Howard Walker, Robb Report, 8 July 2022
  • Step right up, folks, and feast your eyes on the most ginormous, the most humongous phone known to man!
    David Pierce, WSJ, 19 Aug. 2018
  • The trials were so humongous, all the results must be iron-clad.
    Hilda Bastian, Wired, 8 Dec. 2020
  • There’s a humongous plot of land that used to be a hospital that’s been closed for about 30 years now.
    Jennifer Kester, Forbes, 9 June 2022
  • The Nanny’ be a humongous Broadway hit there and then do the series again with a whole new cast.
    Susan Hornik, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Italy’s humongous debt is one thing investors don’t have to worry about – at least in the short term.
    Alessandro Speciale, Bloomberg.com, 22 Feb. 2018
  • Put the regular-size key in the model, and a humongous key falls from the heavens in the real world.
    Luke Winkie, Vulture, 9 Apr. 2021
  • This isn't the first time someone has tried to bring these humongous snails through an airport.
    Chron, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Thanks to three hearts on the board, a whopping 11 cards (two Aces and a whole bunch of hearts) will give Kovalyuk a humongous win.
    Charles Curtis, For The Win, 30 Mar. 2018
  • But the star is still hanging on to his humongous mansion in his hometown—at least, for now.
    Justin Ray, Robb Report, 12 May 2023
  • The 2000s—which is all the rage in fashion right now—were a time of excess, and the decade’s humongous crossbody styles were a prime example.
    Christian Allaire, Vogue, 26 Sep. 2022
  • On Khaled Khaled, though, the beats write humongous checks the vocals aren’t always cashing.
    Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 4 May 2021
  • This humongous sale includes oodles of booths with antiques and one-of-a-kind items.
    Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 25 May 2018
  • Until now, the step up from the dual-motor all-wheel-drive Taycan 4S to the Turbo has been a humongous one.
    Dan Edmunds, Car and Driver, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The concept of panspermia was kicked off, in part, by the humongous eruption of a volcano on the island of Krakatoa in 1883, says Dr. Melosh.
    Eva Botkin-Kowacki, The Christian Science Monitor, 26 Aug. 2020
  • Our practice hall was on the boarder by the levee and that’s why the name Puddle of Mudd came up because there was a humongous flood and stuff.
    Matt Wake | Mwake@al.com, al, 8 Sep. 2022
  • Even though there was no public access at the Butler Yard stop, reporters were able to get an up-close view of the humongous train.
    Alexa Buechler, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 25 July 2019
  • The ships are organized by size, from the humongous aircraft carriers at the top to the smaller ships at the bottom.
    Jordan Valinsky, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2017
  • The ships are organized by size, from the humongous aircraft carriers at the top to the smaller ships at the bottom.
    Jordan Valinsky, Popular Mechanics, 22 Aug. 2017
  • Maurice is known for its humongous cakes, big enough for 30 or more servings.
    Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 8 Feb. 2021
  • Standing 5 feet to nearly 15 feet tall, each has been cut from one or more humongous chunks of black walnut.
    David Pagel, latimes.com, 14 Aug. 2017
  • The other is transplanted to TV, as if grown under glass, and, humongous though our screen may be, much of the fragrance is gone.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 24 Dec. 2020
  • There are humongous differences in our lives, but a DNA of brilliance and tragedy that connects us.
    Melinda Newman, Billboard, 17 Aug. 2021
  • Because it’s not just one life, but the trickle effect that goes out from something like that, which is humongous.
    Martin Fritz Huber, Outside Online, 10 June 2020
  • Even the teams that have changes for other reasons saw humongous effects.
    Andrew Beaton, WSJ, 10 Sep. 2018
  • And remember that humongous brown knit scarf Kravitz wrapped himself in while braving a chilly day in New York in 2018?
    Liana Satenstein, Vogue, 7 Nov. 2022
  • When the odds first emerged for this fight, Valdez was a humongous favorite, but 24 hours before the bout was to begin, the odds moved in Conceicao’s favor.
    Josh Katzowitz, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2021
  • Las Vegas is known for some pretty wild landmarks, but this one is more than just a humongous display-on-a-ball.
    Emma Roth, The Verge, 5 July 2023
  • Critics who initially scoffed at a piece of AI art thought better of it once they were told the humongous number of hours the creator had put in.
    WIRED, 9 Feb. 2023

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