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How to use stupendous in a sentence

13 example sentences · adjective

Stupendous means astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous. Example: “One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.”

Examples of stupendous by meaning

adjectiveAstonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.

  • One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.

adjectiveOf stunning excellence or degree; marvelous.

  • The renovator created a stupendous new look for our house.

More sentences with stupendous

  • At what speed would this energetic and neverdying one-celled animal carry out this stupendous task?1980, Dennis James Kennedy, The University Extension Journal, Volume 1, Number 4, Word Books, pages 56-57. From the entry superpersistent
  • This ability to continuously add new buoyancy chambers to their phragmocones allowed ancient cephalopods to reach truly stupendous sizes.2017, Danna Staaf, Squid Empire, ForeEdge, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry phragmocone
  • There came maulers; huge, ungainly flying fortresses of stupendous might.1940 January, E[dward] E[lmer] Smith, “Gray Lensman; Part IV: Conclusion”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXIV, number 5, New York…. From the entry gargantuanly
  • It is a broader, grander, more magnificent, more stupendous symbol.1915, Robert W. Chambers, “Un Peu d'Amour”, in Police!!!. From the entry nasturtium
  • This tart started out as a chutney recipe, but the texture was too fruity, almost like apple saucey—not great for chutney, but stupendous nevertheless.1996, Carol Gelles, 1,000 Vegetarian Recipes, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, published 2015, →ISBN. From the entry apple saucey
  • Hollywood --Some time late this year --perhaps, appropriately, on Dec. 7- Walt Disney is going to unwind the most stupendous, hypercolossal aviation picture ever made.1942, Escanaba Daily Press, From Sin to Wholeness, Associated Press Leased Wire News Service, page 4. From the entry hypercolossal
  • And, as the stupendous tides mounted, so increased the sun-quakes and volcanoes; the Gargantuanly rumbling warnings of that which was to come from below.1938 May, Edward E[lmer] Smith, “Catastrophe!”, in Astounding Science-Fiction, volume XXI, number 3, New York, N.Y.: Street & Smith…. From the entry gargantuanly
  • I don't go into this with the idea of it turning out wrong but in the conviction that it's going to be stupendous.1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London. From the entry psychologist
  • And right often have I, the modern, been perturbed and vexed by the foolishness, illogic, obtuseness, and general all-round stupendous stupidity of myself, the primitive.1907, Jack London, Before Adam. From the entry illogic
  • If this stupendous sum were turned into gold the pile of yellow metal would weigh a trillion times as much as the earth if the earth were of gold.1925 April 6, “Idle Money”, in The Miami Herald, volume 15, number 133, Miami, Fla.: The Miami Herald Publishing Co., →ISSN, →OCLC, page…. From the entry undevigintillion
  • Since the pale persicaria arrived in New Zealand some fifty years ago, it has ravined about the two islands, North and South, growing now and again in a stupendous plenty.1952, Geoffrey Grigson, “Weeds, Weeds, Weeds”, in Gardenage: Or The Plants of Ninhursaga, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, →OCLC, page 32. From the entry ravin

Meaning of stupendous

  1. adjective Astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.
  2. adjective Of stunning excellence or degree; marvelous.

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Questions about stupendous in a sentence

How do you use stupendous in a sentence?
Stupendous is used as an adjective. For example: “One cannot appreciate how stupendous the Matterhorn is without seeing it.”
What is a short sentence with stupendous?
“It is a broader, grander, more magnificent, more stupendous symbol.”
What does stupendous mean?
Stupendous means astonishingly great or large; huge; enormous.

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