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

“Yet humongous numbers pepper the news, and as citizens, we are asked to make sense of the material.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 19, 2025

She said the impact of his death would be "absolutely humongous throughout the boxing community".

From BBC • Sep. 14, 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

“Yeah. I have five humongous bug bites on my legs and arms, my butt crack has been thoroughly exfoliated with sand, I’m hungry, exhausted, and I haven’t seen a ship anywhere.”

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray