whopper

Example Sentences

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

From Salon • Feb. 12, 2026

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

I’m not sure about you, but 2025 has been a whopper of a year so far.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 25, 2025

A handful of super powerful tropical storms in the last decade and the prospect of more to come has a couple of experts proposing a new category of whopper hurricanes: Category 6.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024

Unfortunately, Wistar failed completely to recognize the bone’s significance and merely made a few cautious and uninspired remarks to the effect that it was indeed a whopper.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson