How to Use kahuna in a Sentence

kahuna

noun

• And the big kahuna of them all, the Oscars, are just around the corner.
  — Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 22 Dec. 2021
• As the story goes, the Lanai kahuna burned everything to keep his fire alight.
  — Jackie Burrell, Orange County Register, 2 Feb. 2017
• The big kahuna option is the carbon fiber track package.
  — Jeff Yip, Houston Chronicle, 14 Apr. 2020
• And Intel, the big chip kahuna, isn’t sitting idly by either.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 10 Mar. 2018
• While there are other area codes that service Houston, 713 will always be the big kahuna around these parts.
  — Sonia Ramirez, Chron, 12 July 2021
• While there are other area codes that service Houston, 713 will always be the big kahuna around these parts.
  — Sonia Ramirez, Houston Chronicle, 13 July 2020
• The big kahuna of beer festivals in Oregon, and among the largest in the country, the Oregon Brewers Festivals is a must-visit for any beer lover.
  — Samantha Bakall | The Oregonian/oregonlive, OregonLive.com, 17 Jan. 2018
• The orphan sounded the alarm as soon as the apparition materialized, just as the kahuna had instructed.
  — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 9 Dec. 2019
• Porgy swim along the U.S. coast in large numbers, blissfully unknown to many American diners, while shrimp, tuna and salmon, often from thousands of miles away, remain the big kahunas.
  — Deena Shanker, Bloomberg.com, 5 Sep. 2017
• The big kahuna obviously is Walton, a walking, talking eccentric who specializes in throwing out a non sequitur or two during the heat of a game.
  — Paul Sullivan, chicagotribune.com, 14 Aug. 2019
• Amazon’s speed of delivery can feel like magic sometimes, but the severe Texas freeze has kept even the big kahuna of disruptors from operating in some of its biggest markets.
  — Maria Halkias, Dallas News, 18 Feb. 2021
• But the big kahuna is $436 billion for state, local, territorial and tribal governments.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020
• The local health care community is bracing for what Providence, the big kahuna of local hospital operators, will do.
  — oregonlive, 8 May 2020
• But the universal charitable deduction is probably the big kahuna among the tax policy issues.
  — Tax Notes Staff, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024