enormity

Example Sentences

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"Instead of being dumbstruck by the enormity of it, we can actually make progress toward an answer about why we're here in the universe."

From Science Daily • Mar. 3, 2026

Also notice that the true enormity of Africa comes across on this map.

From Slate • Jan. 21, 2026

"You cannot underplay the enormity of this giant-killing."

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2026

The enormity of the challenge isn’t lost on Mohammad Reda Jalkhi, the new head of Syria’s National Commission for the Missing.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 19, 2025

She had become part of the exodus without entirely registering the enormity and strangeness of it.

From "Zeitoun" by Dave Eggers