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How to use gargantuan in a sentence

10 example sentences · adjective

Gargantuan means huge; immense; tremendous. Example: “The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.”

Examples of gargantuan by meaning

adjectiveHuge; immense; tremendous.

  • Even if that was true - and, demonstrably, it is not - then it would be a gargantuan task all on its own.2018 May 4, Tom English, “Steven Gerrard: A 'seriously clever or recklessly stupid' Rangers appointment”, in BBC Sport
  • Boxy and unrefined, the Hummer embodied an outlandishly masculine aesthetic that seemed to almost revel in its gargantuan fuel consumption.2022 April 7, Oliver Milman, “I test-drove the all-electric Hummer. Can it win over America’s EV skeptics?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

More sentences with gargantuan

  • The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.From the entry bond
  • Barm brack, a raisin-studded teacake of gargantuan proportions, is the speciality of many an Irish matron.2015 November 19, Claire Sandy, Snowed in for Christmas, Pan Macmillan, →ISBN, page 131. From the entry teacake
  • In an instant, the creature reared back on its haunches and spurted out a gargantuan nugget!1998 October 30, CW, “A Halloween Story...”, in alt.music.rush (Usenet). From the entry boogerball
  • So key in a few gigundo numbers and let the calculator do some gargantuan number-crunching.1974, Wallace Judd, Games, Tricks, and Puzzles for a Hand Calculator, dilithium Press, published 1978, page 25. From the entry gigundo
  • What if it's just a gargantuan one-trick pony?2011 January 30, Mathew Ingram, “What If Google Is Just a One-Trick Pony?”, in BusinessWeek. From the entry decision-making
  • We made a few gargantuan strides, leapt three or four times more, and sat down at last in a lichenous hollow.1900 December – 1901 August, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “chapter 9”, in The First Men in the Moon, London: George Newnes, […], published…. From the entry lichenous
  • One must wonder how gloomy a game can really be when you trash oversized ice-cream trucks and a gargantuan man holding two large tires.2001 July, Kraig Kujawa, “Twisted Metal: Black”, in Electronic Gaming Monthly, number 14.07, page 68. From the entry ice-cream truck
  • The patient's physicians had always allowed him to indulge a gargantuan appetite, countering his intake and regulating his embonpoint by a heroic diet of purges and enemas.2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 1. From the entry embonpoint

Meaning of gargantuan

  1. adjective Huge; immense; tremendous.
  2. adjective Of the giant Gargantua or his appetite.

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Questions about gargantuan in a sentence

How do you use gargantuan in a sentence?
Gargantuan is used as an adjective. For example: “The gargantuan ape was bonded in iron chains and carted onto the stage.”
What is a short sentence with gargantuan?
“What if it's just a gargantuan one-trick pony?”
What does gargantuan mean?
Gargantuan means huge; immense; tremendous.

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