Example sentences for: staggering

How can you use “staggering” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The hype commences, with critics pronouncing Steven Spielberg's World War II epic "a movie of staggering virtuosity" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Reviews dwell on the gory 25 minute opening battle scene, emblematic of Spielberg's new obsession with verisimilitude: "[O]ne of the greatest, most appalling things ever done in movies" (David Denby, New York ). Applause also goes to Spielberg for bucking war movie typecasting with Everyman Tom Hanks and such unmacho hunks as Matt Damon and Edward Burns.

  • But here the insult to civil liberties becomes staggering.

  • “It's clear that they want to do a first-rate job of working with all this information, but I'm not sure they entirely appreciate how hard it's going to be to manage the staggering amount of information they're getting,” says Van Essen.

  • Overall, GAO handled a staggering backlog of paperwork as a result of the war: in 1947, GAO reconciled 490 million checks and audited 92,000 accountable officers' accounts, 5 million transportation vouchers, 1.5 million contracts, and 260 million postal money orders.

  • His silly little savings-account example does nothing to hide the staggering stupidity of that policy.


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