immensity

Example Sentences

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But in its immensity, its implacable absoluteness, is a certain confusion between means and ends.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

"I don't think I quite understood the immensity of winning an Olympic gold and what it meant," Scott continued.

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2025

By returning to us, "Pachinko" gives us more of a sense of that immensity in ways we previously may not have thought possible.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2024

The lag is likely due to "the immensity and ubiquity of the problem," the study authors wrote.

From Science Daily • Jun. 19, 2024

Since waking, he’d traveled nine hours without thinking of rest once, but now the stunning immensity of the distance ahead drained what was left of his energy.

From "Pax" by Sara Pennypacker