How to Use humongous in a Sentence

humongous

adjective
  • I'm sleepy because I ate a humongous lunch.
  • She’s gone off to try and make all of these humongous decisions that will impact the regency, possibly, forever.
    Olivia-Anne Cleary, TIME, 29 July 2024
  • It’s been nearly three years since the first season of Squid Game premiered on Netflix, and the show has gone on to be a humongous success for the streaming service.
    Jay Peters, The Verge, 31 July 2024
  • 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
  • Many movies just depict the world as a humongous place that’s amazing to live in.
    William Earl, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024
  • 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 same goes for the dinosaurs and the other humongous throwbacks—creepy enough, in their skeletal fashion, but no match for Kong.
    Adam Davidson, The New Yorker, 13 Mar. 2017
  • 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
  • At that time, the spot was not only much bigger, but also much more oblong, like a humongous oval.
    Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 24 Apr. 2024
  • 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

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