How to Use staggering in a Sentence

staggering

adjective
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  • The storm caused a staggering amount of damage.
  • The short but scenic Wedge Hill Trail climbs the rocky slopes above for staggering views.
    — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 16 May 2024
  • Boasts one of the top goal scoring margins in the entire state at 65-4, a staggering stat.
    — Logan Stanley, The Arizona Republic, 12 Jan. 2024
  • But how will the various loose ends be tied over the course of the series' staggering 90-minute swan song?
    — Jp Mangalindan, Peoplemag, 26 May 2023
  • The clarity, heft and scale of the action is staggering.
    — James Hibberd, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Feb. 2024
  • Russia’s war in Ukraine grinds on, at a staggering cost.
    — Jeff Sommer, New York Times, 26 May 2023
  • The premiere of the first half of Season 5 pulled in a staggering 17 million viewers.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 2 Nov. 2023
  • In just a single day, a staggering $42 billion streamed out of SVB on March 9.
    — Jim Puzzanghera, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Apr. 2023
  • But all those computers burn staggering amounts of power—and make a lot of noise.
    — David Pogue, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2024
  • On the flip side, robots have done an admirable job of closing that gap with staggering speed.
    — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 24 Apr. 2024
  • The verdict, though not its staggering amount, was inevitable.
    — Nr Editors, National Review, 2 Feb. 2024
  • The scale of the threat is staggering, with over one-third of shark and ray species facing extinction due to overfishing alone.
    — Melissa Cristina Márquez, Forbes, 17 Feb. 2024
  • According to my spouse, the staggering amount of air traffic in Vegas means her private jet might not be able in land.
    — Sherry Kuehl, Kansas City Star, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Do any kind of gambling, these numbers are staggering, right?
    — Staff Reports, cleveland, 10 Aug. 2023
  • In contrast to these staggering numbers, there have been only a few hundred TB deaths in the U.S. every year since the early 2000s.
    — Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The Powerball jackpot has climbed to a staggering $1.09 billion ahead of Wednesday's drawing, the fourth-largest prize in the game's history.
    — Emily Deletter, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The singer, still awed by the staggering success, attributes Hootie’s popularity to being out of step with the times.
    — Alan Light, Variety, 4 Dec. 2023
  • That means the annual cost of the Fed’s recent rate bumps is a staggering $36 billion in total, WalletHub said.
    — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 26 July 2023
  • The jackpot grew to the staggering amount of $2.04 billion after more than three months without anyone coming up with all the right numbers for the top prize.
    — CBS News, 14 Feb. 2023
  • This is both a staggering feat for Swift and testament to how much higher volume vinyl is now versus a decade ago.
    — Ethan Millman, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2024
  • But the fire on Maui would steal at least 98 lives — a staggering number of mothers, fathers, aunts, uncles, children.
    — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2023
  • For a place that lost 90 percent of its wildlife population, the herd numbers are staggering.
    — Mary Holland, Robb Report, 22 Apr. 2023
  • The sum is staggering, but seems less so when compared to the revenue that Google earned from search advertising that same year: $146.4 billion.
    — Steve Mollman, Fortune, 27 Oct. 2023
  • Wordle was played a staggering 4.8 billion times last year.
    — David Morgan, CBS News, 18 May 2024
  • The scale of this in situ production will be staggering if the colony is truly to be considered self-sufficient.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 8 May 2023
  • The story of the Clotilda, the last slave ship to arrive on U.S. shores, gives human dimension to those staggering statistics.
    — Barbara Spindel, The Christian Science Monitor, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The Big Maze covers a staggering 24 acres and is considered the longest in New England, according to the website.
    — Talia Lissauer, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The office market flipped from being one of the strongest in the country to one of the most troubled, as companies sought to vacate a staggering amount of space in the age of remote work.
    — Roland Li, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 Mar. 2023
  • Young’s rise has been staggering considering he wasn’t seen as a potential big league pitcher when the season began.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 13 Aug. 2024
  • The club now has a staggering 44 players contracted in its bloated first-team squad and, despite this vast number, fans have been left underwhelmed by roster the club has assembled.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 16 Aug. 2024

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