How to Use humdinger in a Sentence

humdinger

noun
  • The last storm was a real humdinger!
  • I hear we're in for another humdinger of a storm!
  • The book is full of many such humdingers.
    — Alexandra Petri, The Atlantic, 17 June 2026
  • The wheels come off in the first scene – normally a humdinger, here just humdrum.
    — Mike Fischer, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 July 2018
  • Season 3 cranks the tension up to an 11 and ends on a humdinger of a twist.
    — Allison Degrushe Published, EW.com, 15 Aug. 2025
  • That was during the last warming El Niño episode — which was a real humdinger.
    — Tom Yulsman, Discover Magazine, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Known as humdingers, they're made of dates, nuts, and rice cereal, and don't require eggs or turning on the oven.
    — Alana Al-Hatlani, Southern Living, 8 Mar. 2025
  • The script is aces, too, filled with humdingers that Hall tears into ferociously.
    — Katie Walsh, kansascity, 12 Oct. 2017
  • The script is aces, too, filled with humdingers that Hall tears into ferociously.
    — Katie Walsh, Detroit Free Press, 13 Oct. 2017
  • The material was mostly wooden, with a lot of knee slappers and humdingers.
    — Simon Shuster, TIME, 4 Jan. 2024
  • Why, goodness gracious, great balls of fire, that’s a humdinger of a show at Osceola Arts.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Helles Real had a humdinger of a road to the title, plowing through some tough competition.
    — Rasputin Todd, The Enquirer, 2 Apr. 2023
  • Any day is a good day to get loose at the Torch Club, but this annual humdinger always produces one of their best slates of tunes.
    — Aaron Davis, sacbee, 25 May 2018
  • Though my band, Guster, has more than 2,000 performances behind us, this one is a real humdinger.
    — Ryan Miller, The Atlantic, 10 Apr. 2025
  • Game of the season… Unlike previous campaigns when there were plenty of humdingers, this time around has felt to be a much calmer affair.
    — Richard Sutcliffe, New York Times, 3 May 2025
  • This polyphonic novel already has a chorus, thanks to its humdinger cast of ensemble characters.
    — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 10 June 2026
  • Keep an eye on the docket with Lively’s own upcoming summary judgment submission sure to be a humdinger of its own too.
    — Dominic Patten, Deadline, 13 Nov. 2025
  • The resolute tango between the personal and the practical is a hallmark of a cookbook humdinger.
    — Scott Hocker, TheWeek, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Segel dropped trou on the big screen 15 years ago in Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and his humdinger has made the news several times since.
    — Andy Crump, Men's Health, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Liverpool’s prize for topping the league-phase table is a humdinger of a showdown with French giants Paris Saint-Germain.
    — James McNicholas, The Athletic, 21 Feb. 2025
  • The Sondheim and Furth musical with incredible songs and a humdinger of a premise tells the story of a dissolving three-way friendship in reverse.
    — Vulture, 31 Aug. 2022
  • The latest private-members country club to have opened in Oxfordshire, wrapped in a Jacobethan hall with parkland, is a humdinger with an instant cachet.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 18 May 2026
  • Kari Voutilainen’s wristwatches are among the hardest to come by, and yet Phillips has just put one of his horological humdingers up for sale via its London boutique.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 28 June 2023
  • An unexpected humdinger of an emergency connects Alice with the taciturn, remote Rooker, who might find his own salvation with her.
    — Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times, 29 June 2017
  • After a humdinger of a first season, the current chapter of USA Network’s hacker psych-drama has been routinely falling flat.
    — Angela Watercutter, WIRED, 29 Aug. 2016
  • After a harrowing kayak ride, Mandrick makes a humdinger of a find, a shocking climax to the story that readers will see as if through binoculars from several miles away or will kick themselves for missing.
    — Helene Stapinski, New York Times, 1 June 2018
  • His inclusion of a humdinger as the finale is surprising and effective; a sequence in which the heavy is caught against an amusement park background on a crazily careening merry-go-round whose operator has been downed by a bullet.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 June 2017
  • This augurs to be a humdinger of an election, as only a small number of undecided voters in a small number of battleground states really count for an Electoral College victory.
    — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 7 Aug. 2024
  • For the anti-capitalist cognoscenti, McKenzie’s press tour for Everyone Is Lying to You for Money has been a real humdinger.
    — Bethy Squires, Vulture, 24 Apr. 2026

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