enormity
Example Sentences
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Part of the problem was the sheer enormity of the initial outbreak, which quickly strained available stocks of tests, medications, and PPE, not to mention hospital beds and healthcare workers’ time.
From Slate • Jun. 9, 2026
Days after the disaster, when his journalistic instinct had subsided, the enormity of the tragedy became clear.
From BBC • May 10, 2026
“I don’t know if the enormity of this has sunk in yet,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times • May 3, 2026
But it was a chance to capture the imaginations of new generations of future space explorers, while also calling back to the one-giant-step-for-mankind sense of awed enormity that characterized the 20th-century Space Race.
From Salon • Apr. 25, 2026
The enormity of what’s happened is hitting me in waves.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
Vocabulary lists containing enormity
Things Fall Apart
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