humongous

Example Sentences

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All eyes turned to the Permian, a humongous oil field that spans West Texas and New Mexico and pumps roughly half of the country’s crude.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 17, 2026

"The government needs to have a look at this because it doesn't just affect me, there's a humongous amount of people that it's going to affect."

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2025

She remains recumbent for an entire number, singing to a skeleton, before the bones around her reveal themselves as dancers in masks, convulsing to the humongous bassline synths of “Disease.”

From Salon • Apr. 16, 2025

I’m from DOJ and I spent a lot of time there so take this with a grain of salt, but this is humongous in DOJ’s history.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2025

He glanced behind me and asked more affably, “How come you’re carrying that humongous suitcase around?”

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides