How to Use immensity in a Sentence
immensity
noun- She couldn't understand the immensity of their problem.
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The immensity of the Sinai Desert forced the survivors to remain in the enclave.
— Jean-Pierre Filiu, Foreign Affairs, 1 Jan. 2024 -
Yet the immensity of the mountain is not the sole problem.
— The Economist, 14 June 2018 -
And still, the immensity of the loss in terms of the dead made the event the worst disaster since the bombing of Nagasaki.
— Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 24 Oct. 2017 -
While Kennecott was able to pinpoint the time of the Bingham Canyon slide, the immensity was a shock.
— Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 21 Jan. 2018 -
At the top, he sat slumped on the tarmac, the immensity of his collapse sinking in.
— orlandosentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2020 -
So much was at stake, the immensity of this almost became too much to bear as the clock ticked down.
— Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 May 2020 -
But this is also just one more thing that speaks to the immensity of BTS’ success.
— Andy Meek, BGR, 9 Dec. 2021 -
The region is vast with its few villages lost in the immensity.
— National Geographic, 13 June 2019 -
The trip gave a sense of Brazil’s immensity: an hour and a half by plane to the agricultural hub of Sinop, then a ten-hour drive north.
— Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023 -
Perhaps sensing the immensity of the task at hand, the three Kneecap-ers even went sober for two months in 2023 ahead of the start of production.
— Alex Ritman, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024 -
For me, the immensity of the scene awakens the soul to the many mysteries and greatness of the universe and to our relative place in it.
— Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023 -
Given the immensity of the refugee crisis, why even try to make an impact?
— Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018 -
Feeling the rush of the ocean or the immensity of a forest rejuvenates and grounds me.
— Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020 -
For all its immensity and depth, the sea did not have, never had, and never will have its rhythm in a pair of turgid tetas the size of two corozos.
— Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023 -
He was drawn to the immensity of the ice, and to the stark landscapes retreating glaciers leave behind themselves.
— David James, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022 -
The immensity of the scene and grand scale of the heavens offered me some perspectives that might not happen at the same place during the day.
— Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023 -
The first impression that the Hancock makes is one of sheer immensity.
— Taran Dugal, Rolling Stone, 4 Sep. 2024 -
The 6,243 in attendance were swallowed up by the immensity of PBS.
— Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020 -
One of our favorite facts about the hybrid Vette is the immensity of its 345-section-width rear all-seasons.
— Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2023 -
The tension, in this case, lies between the open-and-shut conventions of the crime novel and the immensity of Everett’s subject.
— Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021 -
But anyway, something about not letting the immensity of it all grind you down.
— al, 6 Apr. 2020 -
Shots of a lone figure dwarfed in the immensity of an untainted domain fill Zhao’s movies.
— Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021 -
Turns out nature is a surefire awe trigger—the vastness of the night sky, the immensity of the Grand Canyon, the tiny intricacies of a flower.
— Krista Simmons, Sunset Magazine, 17 Oct. 2024 -
One of my real challenges is overcoming the immensity of the space.
— Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019 -
People travel there to be awed by the immensity of nature.
— Jen Murphy, Travel + Leisure, 19 Jan. 2024 -
Here’s the draper Baudu: The place would soon be really ridiculous in its immensity; the customers would lose themselves in it.
— Benedict Evans, WIRED, 26 July 2019 -
Tired eyes wide open to the immensity of our planetary challenge.
— Katharine Wilkinson, Time, 3 Nov. 2021 -
The immensity of the task of bringing order in the Amazon is evident in remote outposts such as Jonas Lopes de Souza’s farm.
— Juan Forero, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020 -
The immensity of muscle seemed to vibrate slowly — to expand and contract, with the grazing.
— Gerald Bartell, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
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