whopper

Example Sentences

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The retired engineer still made a whopper of a mistake when Lufthansa emailed him about a flight-schedule change last summer.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 29, 2026

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

No one knows quite how big it was other than that it was a whopper.

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