How to Use gargantuan in a Sentence

gargantuan

adjective
  • And what if part of the appeal is a gargantuan cache of coins and gold?
    — Chad Lewis, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Jan. 2020
  • Heathrow is gargantuan and not an easy airport to find your way around.
    — Shivani Vora, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2022
  • What’s buried in those numbers is how gargantuan a task this was.
    — Alex Hutchinson, Outside, 17 Nov. 2025
  • The truth is that even that gargantuan number hides the real cost of their plans.
    — Wsj Editorial Staff, WSJ, 28 Sep. 2021
  • As a roar echoes across a gargantuan hall, a pile of scrap slides into the mixture.
    — The Economist, 31 May 2018
  • Now’s your chance to snag the gargantuan phone at a decent discount.
    — Simon Hill, Wired News, 12 July 2025
  • And against the back wall, a gargantuan screen plays mukbang and travel videos.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • But there is one bright spot — rather, one bright gargantuan screen — looking back on the year in moviegoing.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 7 Jan. 2026
  • Nothing gargantuan in terms of on-court production to make this race a blowout.
    — Shane Young, Forbes, 16 Apr. 2022
  • The cost is indeed gargantuan, but so is the cost of deep recessions.
    — The Economist, 20 June 2020
  • But the big question is how to do that on Facebook’s gargantuan scale.
    — Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 13 Apr. 2018
  • Their heads are bowed, their fingers nimbly working gargantuan pale orbs of mochi.
    — Jenn Harris, Los Angeles Times, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The next step was the gargantuan task of restoring the castle to its former glory.
    — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 26 Oct. 2022
  • The national debt will by then be gargantuan.
    — Idrees Kahloon, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026
  • The target was Brazil and its gargantuan forests, which farmers often set ablaze to clear land.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 28 Sep. 2021
  • At their gargantuan sizes, manta rays have only the most plus-sized of predators to fear, and many survive decades in the wild.
    — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Feb. 2020
  • And swing by Que Viet on the way for one of their gargantuan egg rolls on a stick, one of my crispy-crunchy fair faves.
    — Nicole Hvidsten, Star Tribune, 1 July 2021
  • His job is to dream the future, and then to marshal the city’s gargantuan bureaucracy to get those dreams built.
    — Christopher Maag, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But more than that, there has to be an intrinsic motivation to take on gargantuan tasks.
    — Haley Sawyer, Oc Register, 25 Sep. 2025
  • Below, listen to the album and check out the full, gargantuan credits.
    — Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 27 Feb. 2026
  • Wallis has some players to work with and will face the gargantuan task of finding one to step into Fine's shoes.
    — Brett Vito, Denton Record-Chronicle, 18 Feb. 2020
  • The more it is denied by Cassilly, the more gargantuan the need for it in Gahler’s mind.
    — Aegis Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 29 Mar. 2024
  • The brave ones held out stalks of celery for the four brown-and-white cows, whose gargantuan tongues elicited shrieks, followed by screams of amazement.
    — Carolyn Said, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 July 2021
  • This was perhaps for the best, given the gargantuan cigar-store Indian at the plan’s heart.
    — Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, The New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2021
  • The Frog Pond is a stage shaded by a gargantuan, ancient cedar tree that leans over it as if shielding it.
    — al, 29 Oct. 2021
  • And a gargantuan Visa Olympic Superstore took up its fair share of space.
    — Time, 9 Feb. 2018
  • Aikens flipped a switch, rerouting the exhaust to inflate the gargantuan tires, and the Sherp rolled to the edge of the river.
    — Josh Condon, Robb Report, 6 Aug. 2022
  • So do the gargantuan leads the Cavs have been blowing throughout the postseason.
    — Joe Vardon, cleveland.com, 6 May 2018
  • The gargantuan gourd could produce at least 687 pies, per the AP.
    — Teresa Nowakowski, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Oct. 2023
  • How does one pull off the presumably gargantuan task of putting together a Met-worthy look in a week?
    — José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 6 May 2026

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