Examples of whopping in a Sentence
The play was a whopping success.
The car sped by at a whopping 110 miles per hour.
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Like Google and Microsoft, Amazon has been a major player in the AI boom, spending a whopping $222 billion on capital expenditures since 2022.
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Tom Cruise has been awarded the Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps by an individual, netting a whopping 16 flaming jumps while filming Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 5 June 2025
Tesla’s share price fell down by 14 percent, losing the company a whopping $152 billion of its market value.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 5 June 2025
Hailey Bieber's Rhode may have just sold for a whopping $1 billion, but that doesn't stop her from using products that cost a whole lot less.
—Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 5 June 2025
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Trefis Team, Forbes.com, 5 June 2025
Tom Cruise has been awarded the Guinness World Record for most burning parachute jumps by an individual, netting a whopping 16 flaming jumps while filming Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning.
—Wesley Stenzel, EW.com, 5 June 2025
Tesla’s share price fell down by 14 percent, losing the company a whopping $152 billion of its market value.
—Lee Billings, Scientific American, 5 June 2025
Hailey Bieber's Rhode may have just sold for a whopping $1 billion, but that doesn't stop her from using products that cost a whole lot less.
—Alyssa Grabinski, People.com, 5 June 2025
See All Example Sentences for whopping
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“Whopping.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whopping. Accessed 11 Jun. 2025.
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whopping
adjective
whop·ping
ˈhwäp-iŋ 
ˈwäp-
: extremely large
got a whopping increase in his allowance
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