How to Use magnitude in a Sentence

magnitude

noun
  • His magnitude on the court is crazy.
    — Gary Bedore, Kansas City Star, 14 Jan. 2026
  • But tech alone may not be enough for the magnitude of the task ahead.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Yeah, that's true, but not at this magnitude.
    — Dana Taylor, USA Today, 6 May 2026
  • Even then, the magnitude didn’t land.
    — Leonora Epstein, Architectural Digest, 20 Feb. 2026
  • Anybody would be lucky to be alive from a crash of this magnitude.
    — Britt Hayes, Entertainment Weekly, 22 May 2026
  • Add in the magnitude of the Olympics.
    — Marcus Thompson Ii, New York Times, 13 Feb. 2026
  • The magnitude of the moment isn’t lost on her.
    — Jessica Derschowitz, Variety, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Since these two fields have the same magnitude, the net field would be zero.
    — Wired, 31 July 2022
  • Of course, there is still a ton of risk involved with a trade of this magnitude.
    — James Boyd, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2025
  • That’s true of any unclosed deal of this magnitude.
    — The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune, 19 Feb. 2026
  • And, of course, the chance to work on a telescope of that magnitude was unique.
    — Daniel Alarcón, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
  • The magnitude of the moment wasn’t lost on fans.
    — Brian McCollum, Freep.com, 27 Sep. 2025
  • There are no right words to say to capture the magnitude of heartache around this tragedy.
    — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 9 Apr. 2026
  • This is still year, but home field for the playoffs is at stake in a game of this magnitude.
    — Richard Obert, The Arizona Republic, 25 June 2021
  • There is the magnitude of the action.
    — John Brummett, Washington Post, 7 Jan. 2026
  • There are a few reasons why the magnitude of this decline was so sharp.
    — Jeff Marks, CNBC, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Maybe our remaining time is of the same magnitude as our past time.
    — Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Your eyes can’t adjust to its magnitude.
    — Shivani Vora, Forbes.com, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Something of this magnitude must be tackled by the feds and the states.
    — cleveland, 1 June 2021
  • The Grants were too new to elite softball to grasp the magnitude of it all.
    — Ira Gorawara, New York Times, 15 May 2026
  • There are simply no words to convey the magnitude of this tragedy.
    — Jill Smolowe, PEOPLE.com, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Given the magnitude of its spread, no amount of caution can be enough.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The public deserves to know the magnitude of this guy’s bad faith.
    — Grayson Quay, The Week, 18 Apr. 2022
  • The challenges to come would dwarf that episode by orders of magnitude.
    — Alexander Burns, New York Times, 24 Oct. 2020
  • What was the preparation like for a project of this magnitude?
    — Mark Elibert, Billboard, 14 Feb. 2022
  • This would be the third bump of that magnitude in a row, and a fourth may well come before the year is out.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 21 Sep. 2022
  • When a star of this magnitude explodes, its brightness shoots through the roof.
    — Jackie Appel, Popular Mechanics, 18 May 2023
  • Gassner offered a snapshot of the magnitude of the task.
    — Judith Magyar, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
  • Speed is just magnitude of motion.
    — Marco Argenti, Time, 2 Oct. 2025
  • If a gain of that magnitude were to hold at the close, the stock would turn positive for the year.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz, CNBC, 24 Feb. 2026

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