How to Use stupendous in a Sentence

stupendous

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  • Wouldn’t that be stupendous, to have the heavens crack open at the climax of the play!
    — Mary Norris, The New Yorker, 15 July 2022
  • This wasn’t the way these two stupendous weeks were supposed to end.
    — Christine Brennan, USA TODAY, 9 Sep. 2017
  • Or the Giants could get a stupendous prospect who is so young his team has not had to add him to the 40-man yet.
    — Henry Schulman, SFChronicle.com, 5 Aug. 2019
  • This is our stupendous guest and a very good friend, one of the world’s great actors, Mr. Alec Baldwin.
    — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2017
  • Anyway the tour was great, the reviews were just stupendous.
    — Jem Aswad, Variety, 7 June 2023
  • The level of dysfunction with the current large haulers and the city is stupendous.
    — Elizabeth Dickinson, Twin Cities, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The stupendous view of Maiden Lake from the three walls of windows that surround the dining room is a bonus.
    — Chelsey Lewis, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018
  • This was the Angel Falls of change, a stupendous cascade.
    — Tom Verducci, SI.com, 21 Mar. 2018
  • The injury stopped a stupendous streak from Trout — even by his standards.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 15 July 2019
  • That first glimpse of the soaring, stupendous, and sweetly spooky Land of the Dead is breathtaking.
    — Allegra Frank, Vox, 27 June 2019
  • His first appearance at brawny Bay Hill is sure to test his stupendous tee-to-green game.
    — Edgar Thompson, orlandosentinel.com, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Read here and here about his stupendous career as a banker and a philanthropist.
    — Adam Lashinsky, Fortune, 31 May 2019
  • Their barbecue sauce is wine-dark, and their skin-on fries are stupendous.
    — Nick Rallo, Dallas News, 20 May 2020
  • The skiing begins from a sunny plateau above the town with stupendous views of more than a dozen of Europe's highest peaks.
    — Rob Hodgetts, CNN, 4 Dec. 2017
  • The bullpen was simply stupendous last year, and that can’t be expected to repeat.
    — Paul Bledsoe, Baltimore Sun, 4 Apr. 2024
  • On its own terms, this is a stupendous leap, a nearly 800-fold increase since early March.
    — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 14 Aug. 2020
  • That was a stupendous contract, one of the biggest in sports history.
    — SFChronicle.com, 1 Aug. 2020
  • Spend a full day with your ranger in the vehicle for a stupendous and exciting safari.
    — Julian Harrison, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • Spend a full day with your ranger in the vehicle for a stupendous and exciting safari.
    — Julian Harrison, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
  • To rip the bandage off quickly: Feldstein is not stupendous.
    — New York Times, 24 Apr. 2022
  • Oregon: Sokol Blosser has been making stupendous white blends, still and sparkling, for years.
    — Star Tribune, 23 Dec. 2020
  • This was a Coors Field classic in every sense, one the Astros sealed with a stupendous seventh inning.
    — Chandler Rome, Houston Chronicle, 3 July 2019
  • The museum's Tour du Suquet offers stupendous 360-degree views of Cannes and the bay.
    — Jennifer Ladonne, CNN, 17 May 2017
  • But how many other teams have had stupendous quarterbacks and not won rings?
    — USA TODAY, 11 Jan. 2024
  • The action sequences are stupendous enough — or at least unrelenting enough — in a hey-look-at-me way.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 24 June 2021
  • Sure, that’s not a stupendous score, but for all those other, non-ray-tracing laptops, 0 times 0 is zero.
    — Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld, 29 Jan. 2019
  • The sound also matches the usual Hyundai and Kia offerings, nice but not stupendous.
    — Scott Sturgis, Philly.com, 10 Feb. 2018
  • Today's stupendous roundup features tasty treats and free fun.
    — Doreen Christensen, Sun-Sentinel.com, 6 Apr. 2018
  • To bear 16 children is surely a stupendous feat in any era; to do so as a head of state, often during wartime and in the span of 20 years, staggers the imagination.
    — A. Wess Mitchell, WSJ, 28 Jan. 2022
  • Events in Africa don’t fit into this narrative until the growth of the slave trade, and then the continent appears only silently, as a source for bodies that were put to work for the creation of stupendous wealth.
    — Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò, Foreign Affairs, 19 Apr. 2022

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