How to Use immensity in a Sentence

immensity

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  • She couldn't understand the immensity of their problem.
  • Yet the immensity of the mountain is not the sole problem.
    — The Economist, 14 June 2018
  • And still, the immensity of the loss in terms of the dead made the event the worst disaster since the bombing of Nagasaki.
    — Kevin Nguyen, GQ, 24 Oct. 2017
  • While Kennecott was able to pinpoint the time of the Bingham Canyon slide, the immensity was a shock.
    — Sandi Doughton, The Seattle Times, 21 Jan. 2018
  • At the top, he sat slumped on the tarmac, the immensity of his collapse sinking in.
    — orlandosentinel.com, 19 Sep. 2020
  • So much was at stake, the immensity of this almost became too much to bear as the clock ticked down.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 May 2020
  • But this is also just one more thing that speaks to the immensity of BTS’ success.
    — Andy Meek, BGR, 9 Dec. 2021
  • The region is vast with its few villages lost in the immensity.
    — National Geographic, 13 June 2019
  • The trip gave a sense of Brazil’s immensity: an hour and a half by plane to the agricultural hub of Sinop, then a ten-hour drive north.
    — Jon Lee Anderson, The New Yorker, 3 Apr. 2023
  • For me, the immensity of the scene awakens the soul to the many mysteries and greatness of the universe and to our relative place in it.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 July 2023
  • Given the immensity of the refugee crisis, why even try to make an impact?
    — Robin Pogrebin, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2018
  • Feeling the rush of the ocean or the immensity of a forest rejuvenates and grounds me.
    — Lisa Deaderick, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Sep. 2020
  • For all its immensity and depth, the sea did not have, never had, and never will have its rhythm in a pair of turgid tetas the size of two corozos.
    — Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • He was drawn to the immensity of the ice, and to the stark landscapes retreating glaciers leave behind themselves.
    — David James, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Oct. 2022
  • The immensity of the scene and grand scale of the heavens offered me some perspectives that might not happen at the same place during the day.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The 6,243 in attendance were swallowed up by the immensity of PBS.
    — Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 5 Oct. 2020
  • One of our favorite facts about the hybrid Vette is the immensity of its 345-section-width rear all-seasons.
    — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The tension, in this case, lies between the open-and-shut conventions of the crime novel and the immensity of Everett’s subject.
    — Julian Lucas, The New Yorker, 20 Sep. 2021
  • But anyway, something about not letting the immensity of it all grind you down.
    — al, 6 Apr. 2020
  • Shots of a lone figure dwarfed in the immensity of an untainted domain fill Zhao’s movies.
    — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 24 Apr. 2021
  • One of my real challenges is overcoming the immensity of the space.
    — Laura Johnston, cleveland.com, 17 July 2019
  • Here’s the draper Baudu: The place would soon be really ridiculous in its immensity; the customers would lose themselves in it.
    — Benedict Evans, WIRED, 26 July 2019
  • Tired eyes wide open to the immensity of our planetary challenge.
    — Katharine Wilkinson, Time, 3 Nov. 2021
  • The immensity of the task of bringing order in the Amazon is evident in remote outposts such as Jonas Lopes de Souza’s farm.
    — Juan Forero, WSJ, 31 Jan. 2020
  • The immensity of muscle seemed to vibrate slowly — to expand and contract, with the grazing.
    — Gerald Bartell, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 Jan. 2018
  • The desert often draws searchers, nomadic types, people looking to get lost for a bit in all of the immensity — or, conversely, to find themselves.
    — Rosecrans Baldwin, Travel + Leisure, 30 Mar. 2023
  • Lee reveled in the immensity of what is, by most any standards, a pretty small corner of a pretty small country.
    — Washington Post, 30 Dec. 2021
  • Since then, they’ve usually been held in the immensity of Radio City Music Hall.
    — Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 27 Sep. 2021
  • Bruce Kendrick, the director of Life Initiatives at Watermark and host of the event, tried to impress upon the crowd the immensity of what the moment required of them.
    — Washington Post, 16 Nov. 2021
  • In the end, the book’s 83 images are about nothing so much as American immensity, a span of distance both inner and outer.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 11 Sep. 2019

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