enormity

Example Sentences

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Together, they represent overkill of an enormity that should be considered essentially unfathomable.

From Salon

The enormity of the challenge isn’t lost on Mohammad Reda Jalkhi, the new head of Syria’s National Commission for the Missing.

From The Wall Street Journal

And the first paragraph: Terrified earthquake survivors sought the safety of open ground Tuesday as the enormity of Turkey’s tragedy became clear: more than 2,000 people killed, 10,000 injured, and thousands more missing.

From Literature

There’s an enormity in these nighttime shots of cars isolated in the darkness, chasing after the dust in their own headlights, looking so alone they may as well be on the moon.

From Los Angeles Times

Ever since Las Vegas, Charlie Ledley had been unable to shake his sense of the enormity of the events they were living through.

From Literature