How to Use immensity in a Sentence

immensity

noun

• She couldn't understand the immensity of their problem.
• 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 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
• 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
• The desert often draws searchers, nomadic types, people looking to get lost for a bit in all of the immensity — or, conversely, to find themselves.
  — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
• Despite the costs and the immensity of the problem, nations around the world signed the Montreal Protocol, phasing out the chlorofluorocarbons that caused the hole.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 22 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024