Example sentences for: whopping

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

  • Under the Florio brothers, Steve and Tom, The New Yorker has lost a whopping $175 million.

  • The Hungarian alphabet, even though it omits the letters q, w, x, and y, still boasts a whopping thirty-seven members: A, A, B, C, CS, D, E, É, F, G, GY, H, I, J, K, L, LY, M, N, NY, O, Ó, Ö, \?\, P, R, S, SZ, T, TY, U, Ú, Ü, \?\, V, Z, ZS.

  • "American leave provisions (20 days in total) are among the lowest in the world--slightly more than Cambodia (16), slightly less than Japan (25 days) and Singapore (26 days) and substantially less than the world's best holiday practitioners, Sweden and Greece (a whopping 38 days each)."

  • Not so, say publishers, who insist they should continue to take a whopping chunk of the money for no particular reason.

  • In England, schoolboys came to call a whopping exaggeration a “Marco Polo.”


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