humdinger

Example Sentences

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A movie that spends much of its time at a funeral home, a morgue and a grave site is unlikely to be a bundle of fun, but “Raymond & Ray” is a humdinger of hopelessness.

From New York Times

So for the likes of Gallacher, the Scottish Open is a final shot at squeezing into the field for the looming humdinger at St Andrews.

From BBC

It’s a bona fide humdinger of a black comedy by Martin McDonagh, that master conductor on the route to bloody ends.

From Washington Post

And a former Cabinet minister said he expected it to be a "humdinger of hostility".

From BBC

Known or not, “Ozymandias” is a humdinger of a sonnet by Percy Bysshe Shelley, husband of the novelist who created “Frankenstein.”

From Washington Post