How to Use titanic in a Sentence

titanic

adjective
  • The batter hit a titanic home run.
  • They put up a titanic struggle.
  • In some cases, the deputies have changed but those aren't titanic changes.
    — Katya Soldak, Forbes, 19 Feb. 2023
  • As the last few years have shown, titanic, disruptive change can come out of nowhere.
    — Edie Goldberg, Forbes, 19 May 2022
  • Alexander is a titanic figure in this scene.
    — Sam Kriss, Harpers Magazine, 24 Feb. 2026
  • There’s no way a titanic freshman talent like Queen sticks around for more than a year.
    — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 24 Mar. 2025
  • Across three dozen movies, the titanic lizard has leveled city skylines with its atomic ray.
    — Troy Aidan Sambajon, The Christian Science Monitor, 12 Dec. 2023
  • More rockets still The fun doesn't stop with these four titanic boosters.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 24 July 2018
  • Those titanic steins of beer and plate-sized weinerschnitzel will send you into a coma.
    — Robert Simonson, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2018
  • The very idea of the journal was a titanic act of imagination.
    — Benjamin Anastas, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2021
  • The movement that takes place for all the characters involved is titanic.
    — Todd Vanderwerff, Vox, 31 May 2018
  • The country tunes in for the titanic point totals, not textbook tackles.
    — Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Dec. 2022
  • Houston's June drinking scene couldn't quite match the titanic numbers from last month.
    — Peter Dawson, Houston Chronicle, 25 July 2019
  • Some cars do shine, though, like the new R Class time-attack weapons with their titanic downforce.
    — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 14 May 2026
  • Here’s a sampling of other bills that may not be the center of titanic power struggles, but are still buzzy.
    — Fenit Nirappil, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2018
  • Heightening the conflict is the fact that both the host and the guest are world-famous writers, each with a titanic ego.
    — Stuart Miller, Oc Register, 10 June 2026
  • Max Muncy greeted deGrom with a titanic homer in the first inning.
    — Andy McCullough, latimes.com, 24 June 2018
  • Because a lot of folks outside the Bay Area thought you guys traded your souls for a bushel of titanic home runs.
    — Scott Ostler, SFChronicle.com, 16 Nov. 2019
  • The point isn’t that the Giants are World Series-bound; that still seems a titanic stretch.
    — Bruce Jenkins, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 June 2021
  • The film was well-received, but failed to escape the titanic shadow of the predecessor.
    — Jacob Linden, Country Living, 17 Apr. 2023
  • Others said that whales became big to escape from titanic killers, like the megalodon shark, or the sperm whale Livyatan.
    — Ed Yong, The Atlantic, 24 May 2017
  • The restaurant’s titanic windows flood the space with light, while delicate pieces of linen run in waves across the ceiling, flapping back and forth.
    — Nick Kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, 8 Oct. 2021
  • From the humble red dwarfs to the titanic supergiants, stars come in a dazzling array of sizes, colors, and lifespans.
    — Kenna Hughes-Castleberry, Space.com, 28 Sep. 2025
  • But under the surface there is a titanic struggle between the swift moving current in the channel and the ships’ engines.
    — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 19 Mar. 2019
  • But hiding behind this benign climate state was all that titanic power flowing through the climate system.
    — Adam Frank, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
  • Plenty of ports round out the package, and right now HP is offering a titanic 61% price drop.
    — K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 27 May 2025
  • Musk ultimately aims to recover both stages, via titanic robotic arms attached to the launch tower, and slash launch prices in the process.
    — Kevin Holden Platt, Forbes.com, 31 May 2026
  • After all the twist and turns, big plays and turnovers, the titanic clash between the state’s high school football heavyweights rested on the right foot of a junior kicker.
    — Dakota Crawford, Indianapolis Star, 16 Aug. 2017
  • One of the hits was a titanic home run over the batter’s eye in center field off the bat of Waukesha’s Jarred Kelenic.
    — Todd Rosiak, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2023
  • Mescal recognizes that his role is in support of the titanic performance given by Buckley.
    — Anne Thompson, IndieWire, 7 Jan. 2026

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