whopper

Example Sentences

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The retired engineer still made a whopper of a mistake when Lufthansa emailed him about a flight-schedule change last summer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

Even for a president accustomed to making grandiose statements, this one was a whopper.

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

New musicals are impossible dreams, and this is a whopper of a show, daunting in scale and jaw-dropping in ambition.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 9, 2025

You have invested so prodigiously that you have left yourself with a whopper of a tax bill if you were to withdraw large sums now.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 16, 2025

She said that if he ever told a bigger whopper than the ones I used to tell, she had yet to hear it.

From "Old Yeller" by Fred Gipson