Example sentences for: staggering

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

  • The numbers are by this point well known, but they're no less staggering for all that.

  • Since the mid-1940s, when he went to Paris to capture the revitalization of French couture--a moment captured in Stanley Donen's 1957 film Funny Face , for which Avedon served as visual consultant, and in which Fred Astaire plays a fey, charming photographer named Dick Avery--Avedon has produced a staggering corpus of fashion and commercial photography.

  • The number of items complicating talks with the Palestinians is staggering: left-over commitments from previous agreements; questions of compliance and reciprocity; a volatile Palestinian population, which can easily be incited to violent disorders; a still-intact Hamas terrorism infrastructure; and, of course, difficult talks on the future of Jerusalem, settlements, borders, and the outlines of a Palestinian entity," the paper said gloomily.

  • This week, 43 IPOs were supposed to be priced, which is simply a staggering number.

  • For a two-earner couple making $150,000 split evenly, Alterman claims a staggering marriage penalty of $7,700.


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