How To Use Stupendous In A Sentence

The annexe has the feel of a private house with a wood fire and stupendous views of the temples of Baalbek.
The Italian was quite stupendous. Times, Sunday Times
They're stupendously boring goody-goodies who are permanently belting out power ballads. The Sun
Next to that outcome, Pyrrhus won a stupendous triumph. Russia
This is the first bike that will exploit the Renovatio's frameless concept: The 132-cubic-inch, S&S-built engine is a load-bearing structural element, suspended like a girder between the stupendous front engine mount and rear pivot. The Master of Machine-Age Motorcycles

There he cut a memorable figure with his red sash, billowing white shirt and stupendous head of crisp wavy hair. The Times Literary Supplement
She will lampoon "Cameron's stupendously inane soundbite about a security fightback being followed by a social fightback" and claim the prime minister's vision for dealing with socially excluded people is "the idea of ghettoes, where the undeserving poor can be kept and contained through heavy policing, CCTV surveillance and the use of benefits as a stick to intimidate. Green party leader seeks to woo Liberal Democrats
It's a pretty salad that tastes as stupendous as it looks; perfect summer fork food. Times, Sunday Times
An algorithm purporting to match what is presumed to be operating in a human brain would need to be a stupendous thing.
Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
He wrote it after a stupendously argumentative and productive life as a scholar and writer and as that cruel disease, ALS, was closing in upon him. Twelve Months of Reading
It is destined to drown all lesser years, even as sunrise dims the morning stars with day; it is a year bright with promise and bodeful with ill-tidings also; for in the world at this moment there exist stupendous differences that this year will go far to set at rest. New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 3, June, 1915 April-September, 1915
What if we also consider that fantasy greatly outsells sf (and by your broader definition that would presumably include YA, horror, and alternative history, stupendously outsells it)? Why Science Fiction Authors Can't Win
A short climb through the castle brings me to the other side of these windows - and stupendous views over the surrounding mountains. Times, Sunday Times
By no means is it an original movie, but it is a well constructed one that often rises above its stupendous flaws and contradictions.
He ran up stupendous debts through his extravagant lifestyle.
A stupendous drawing of Venus rising by Rubens, 30 artworks by Walter Sickert and a poignant note written by Gandhi that was his tacit approval for Indian partition are among a dozen artworks and archives now in the possession of the nation because of the 101-year-old Acceptance in Lieu scheme. Acceptance in Lieu scheme brings a dozen new gifts to the nation
An inspired partnership, a stupendous performance. Times, Sunday Times
It contains a stupendous object called BL Lacerta, which is known as a "blazar", a distant galaxy being torn apart by a super-sized black hole. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph
Many a politician has built a ministerial career on making otherwise contentious subjects stupendously boring. How local government cuts will damage the NHS
Giap was a fine general but he had great troops willing and apparently eager to sustain stupendous hardships for long long periods, and a country behind him in which every citizen worked in essence 12 hours a day 7 days a week for 25 years, for no pay. Matthew Yglesias » Blockbuster
It looks stupendous served from a large, shallow bowl with a generous garnish of chopped parsley and lightly cooked green beans. Times, Sunday Times
I have language skills, I'm pedantic to stupendous heights, computer literate and I can fire and strip a pistol.
Our charity appeal has been stupendously successful.
Rather than acknowledge that this is what happened; that certain stupendously wrong ideas gained widespread adherence in the two years after 9/11, there’s been an enormous willingness to believe that, hey, no, everything’s fine, it’s just that Paul Bremer and Donald Rumsfeld are really dumb. Matthew Yglesias » Strange New Respect
A stupendous cinema epic, reduced to a sort of frantic scurrying in a goldfish bowl, might merely seem ridiculous.
If asked to name stupendously amazing things in space, most people would probably pick black holes. American Scientist Online
The work is both a stupendously tasteless joke and a massive painting with a cat's face at the top of the middle canvas.
I thought it was a stupendous idea - I still do - but I haven't heard anything more about it.
It's a resonant place with a most stupendous view. Times, Sunday Times
The full-scale skeletal model unveiled at the end of the film shows a stupendous creature in all its glory. Times, Sunday Times
I noticed out the window an absolutely stupendous view over Westminster.
My impression of it was quite vivid enough without that, and the vision of the Colosseum remained, and still remains, the immense skeleton of the stupendous form stripped of all integumental charm and broken down half one side of its vast oval, so that wellnigh a quarter of the structural bones are gone. Roman Holidays, and Others
However, that presence, stupendous mystery as it was, was in itself no guarantee of benefit, either to celebrant or congregation.
My greatest discovery on this front has been Vida Vida's stupendous leather weekend bag, aka the nonpareil of luggagery £195, www.vidavida.co.uk . Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
To paraphrase: When I win my vroom-car races, our annoyingly short national anthem means that my period of standing up on a big platform, bathed in the love of millions of people goggling at how stupendously great I am, is limited to only 30 seconds or so. So Lewis Hamilton wants a longer national anthem. Has he heard the second verse?
She heads a classy cast, with soprano Eglise Gutierrez in the ditsy coloratura role of Fairy Godmother and the mezzo Alice Coote in rapturous, unblemished voice, a stupendous Prince Charming. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
Here's a trade secret that could get this column suspended from journalism's equivalent of the Magic Circle: there is a way to be stupendously well informed without reading absolutely everything.
But: What was exceptional is that precisely a protruding 'massif' of a hog was dancing in the innersanctum sanctorumof the museum, a great and stupendously rotund animal was actually attempting to, or so it seemed to Wong, preform a pirouette in the manner of one of Degas 'whores. Why is a Hog always Corpulent ? (or Another Special Exhibit at the Met)
There he cut a memorable figure with his red sash, billowing white shirt and stupendous head of crisp wavy hair. The Times Literary Supplement
Dr. Paul Cravath of the University of Hawaii elegantly captured the essence of the “devata” when he wrote, “There, with stupendous variety, the Feminine achieved a new level of expression unsurpassed at any time in Asian sculpture.” Review: Costumes and Ornaments after the Devata of Angkor Wat | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context
I'm not saying real wizards have a problem with the gay thing - we're stupendously open-minded toward the alternative sexualities.
The deal, which allowed Mittal to pay himself a £1.1 billion dividend, also shone a light on his stupendous wealth.
It is famous for its mountainous debt and its stupendous sales growth.
The alloted time, during which so stupendous an undertaking is to be consummated, is short. Arohanui: Letters from Shoghi Effendi to New Zealand
Mr. Chu used his opening testimony to remind the committee that his department is backing, with billions, no fewer than 38 stupendously large renewable projects which are in addition to the 5,000 awards, totaling $34 billion, it has made via its stimulus grant program, and dozens of other corporate handouts via its regular budget. Steven Chu, Energy CEO
It is for no other reason than the empire's need to engage in a stupendous demonstration of its might.
Lipsey says the Treasury can claim credit for the stupendous UK policy success of the last two decades - privatisation.
The master bedroom has an en suite and a window seat with stupendous views. Times, Sunday Times
stupendous demand
Into the face of this cone had been carved a stupendous multilevel castlelike structure. THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS
So long as it prevails the show is thrilling and stupendous; the moment it fails the show is a dull and dirty farce.
It's a resonant place with a most stupendous view. Times, Sunday Times
Vienna may now be second only to Paris as art-history capital of Europe, but city-breakers have yet to cotton on to the fact, and many of its stupendous exhibits are mercifully uncrowded.
The recent history of butterflies in this country has been of overall and sometimes catastrophic decline, alongside local and quite stupendous success. Times, Sunday Times
The advance publicity has been stupendous, and the first issue is alleged to have sold out straight away.
His poll numbers in the role have gone from being "stupendous" -- the description of one of his Labor opponents -- to just "very good". The Australian | News |
As against these, the stupendous increase in the destructiveness of air power has been of limited utility in guerrilla war.
The soup ends up an autumnal russet colour, stupendous with a garnish of diced avocado, lime and coriander. Times, Sunday Times
So stupendous is the potential, it could transform global energy politics and economics. Americans (Sort of) Fracking
Here the view was dominated by a stupendous skyscape, rather like the fanciful ones on the ceiling of the Sistine chapel.
A small group of white girls from stupendously troubled families (the kids are described as "cherubic" for maximum effect) began meeting in one of the girls 'houses after school — and sometimes in a motel room — to do drugs and service two groups of rough trade, one of local white boys, the other of African-American boys (a recent prison inmate among them) who commuted from a different part of the county to avail themselves of the girls. Are You There God? It's Me, Monica
By the time we got to the grand final it was just stupendous.
The Manhattan Project represented the most stupendous scientific effort in history. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
So it turns out this was not so much ‘difficult’ as stupendously easy.
We were gliding underneath a dead tree when an anhinga, unseen sunning itself on the limb above us, startled and took off with a stupendous flapping of wings. I DEFINE LOVE AS THINKING WELL ABOUT SOMEONE
It's a pretty salad that tastes as stupendous as it looks; perfect summer fork food. Times, Sunday Times
stupendously ignorant people
Jonson made his money from masques, which were stupendously expensive to put on at court.
Acclaimed "La Stupenda,"– "the Stupendous One"– during a career spanning more than four decades, Sutherland was known in the opera world as an "anti-diva" diva whose warm vibrant sound and subtle coloring helped revitalize the school of early 19th-century Italian opera known as bel canto. Joan Sutherland Dies: Famed Soprano Dead At 83
Ceylon, of the remains of what may correctly be termed stupendous works; and the date of the construction of which, as regards India, is in many cases prehistoric. Scientific American Supplement, No. 595, May 28, 1887
The trouble is that bankers lend the stupendous amounts of money involved only in return for a very low risk. Times, Sunday Times
The fireworks were stupendous - and so was the ocean of humanity viewing them.
The report finds that the cost of these disparities is stupendous.
But then it is _all_ they can do -- it is the last card and the _last_ man, and if we make one stupendous effort, we must inevitably crush it. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No 3, September, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.
Our charity appeal has been stupendously successful.
Myself, I'm mostly haunted by retrospectively realising that what made perfect sense at the time was actually stupendously wrong and/or offensive and/or thoughtless.
That is an undeniable truth with stupendously large bodies of study to support it.
His lordship was much amused by this freshwater voyage; and viewed with delight the stupendous rocks of basaltes through which the The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2
Our charity appeal has been stupendously successful.
The philosophical mind would most naturally associate with it the idea of stupendous magnetic power. New and Original Theories of the Great Physical Forces
Most of them have balconies, too, and on a clear night you will be zipping back and forth between the stupendous sight of the Matterhorn and the snug reassurance of your fireplace.
There was only the vast upcurve of the top-chords and the stupendous down-curve of the bottom-chords and the line between that stood for the foreshortened sixteen hundred feet of bridge-floor level extending from the north shore to the swaying tip of that unanchored north third of the central span. Out of the Primitive
Its current owner removed the tarry dirt to reveal a stupendous new Titian.
The public and private edifices, that were founded for eternity, lie prostrate, naked, and broken, like the limbs of a mighty giant; and the ruin is the more visible, from the stupendous relics that have survived the injuries of time and fortune. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
A resounding cheer went up from the stupendous mass of people that was streaming through the gates into Hyde Park.
By walking perhaps twenty yards further there's a stupendous view over the Bristol Channel.
This stupendous sum has failed spectacularly to improve the lot of its intended beneficiaries.
But while that triangular confrontation was stupendously dramatic, the ex-president left with a token fine which was quashed on appeal.
Efforts which might fairly be described as stupendous were put forth by the advocates of Kultur to win, if not the approval, at least the strict neutrality of Defenders of Democracy; contributions from representative men and women of letters and other arts from our allies and our own country, edited by the Gift book committee of the Militia of Mercy
I've been a guest at a few of these and they are plain stupendous. Boing Boing: December 3, 2006 - December 9, 2006 Archives
The advance publicity has been stupendous, and the first issue is alleged to have sold out straight away.
His lordship was much amused by this freshwater voyage; and viewed with delight the stupendous rocks of basaltes through which the Elbe here securely wound it's way, amidst scenes of such impressive grandeur. The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson
This is a stupendous performance. Times, Sunday Times
And equally stupendous is the callousness of the people who believe in Christ, acknowledge THE CHILDREN
Nay, it needs no such stupendous cataclysm to depeople this uneasy orb. A Cynic Looks at Life
The Venice we see here, through the prism of Scottish fantasies, is a fabled city of delight, that glass goblet as stupendous as a Titian.
El cajon san diego the gnetophytina up for an psychologically extortionately impounding, add dakoity by prophylaxis the tip of your protoplast and stupendously nepheline his airwave clarion your way talkatively to his cooper. Rational Review
We have two buildings by that architect here in town; one is a rip-off of an old Roman temple in France - er, Gaul - and the other is a stupendously bad monolith on Washington Avenue.
The moon's idealizing glamour had left no trace of the uncouthness of the place which the daylight revealed; the little log house, the great overhanging chestnut-oaks, the jagged precipice before the door, the vague outlines of the distant ranges, all suffused with a magic sheen, might have seemed a stupendous alto-rilievo in silver repoussè. In the Tennessee mountains,
If, indeed, here and there, one of the older naturalists still disputes, the foundation on which they rest, or demands proofs which are wanting (as happened a few weeks ago on the part of a famous German pathologist at the Anthropological Congress in Moscow), he only shows by this that he has remained a stranger to the stupendous advances of recent biology, and above all of anthropogeny. Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science
Its hilltop position gives stupendous views to the dramatic skyline of the National Park. Times, Sunday Times
What a stupendous building, built in thanksgiving for success in war.
One of the best ways is to drill ice cores, often stupendously long ones.
a stupendous field of grass
An inspired partnership, a stupendous performance. Times, Sunday Times
He is designing private houses of stupendous but well-tempered poshness in Kensington and Oxfordshire. David Chipperfield: master of permanence | Interview
However, the great actor Patrick Stewart manages somehow to remain self-respecting, even when Portia, stupendously performed by Susannah Fielding, spits out "Jew!" at him with heartfelt venom. Recurring Daydreams
It was simply the thirteen states, through their delegates in Congress, dealing with the unoccupied national domain as if it were the common land or folkland of a stupendous township. The Critical Period of American History
Is not ---- 's last novel a better antidote against melancholy, stupendously absurd as it is, than foalfoot or plantain, featherfew or savin, agrimony or saxifrage, or any other herb in old Robert Burton's pharmacopoeia? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
That, as they say, is a story, and in "Baby It's You!" it's told to the accompaniment of slick cover versions of the Shirelles' greatest hits, sung stupendously well by Erica Ash, Kyra Da Costa, Crystal Starr Knighton and Christina Sajous. The Invisible Girls
What little the first group was able to accomplish, it accomplished in the face of really stupendous odds.
He may be absolutely mild-mannered (even meek and wimpish) in most respects, but no original thinker or doer gets anywhere in any field without aggression and stupendously high self-regard.
But none of those truths should diminish the power of last weekend's stupendous events.
One artistic work that stupendously manages this neat feat of perspective is the musical Cabaret, currently on the boards of the Citadel Theatre.
Its hilltop position gives stupendous views to the dramatic skyline of the National Park. Times, Sunday Times
What has been ‘produced’ since 1970 is a stupendous reduction that no cop or police roundsman doing Sunday morning ‘intrusions’ at the homes of the bereaved in 1970 would have thought possible.
It's really one of the most atrociously written of HPL's stories, and a testament to how stupendously his writing improved from the early 1920s to the early and mid-1930s. One of those WoW things.
He was a man of stupendous stamina and energy.
In 2006, Marga Gomez combined the stories about her parents and mounted Los Big Names, a tell-all memoir-logue about her surreal upbringing by stupendously narcissistic parents. Erika Milvy: "Marga Gomez Is Not Getting Any Younger" Extended
Alas for Adolf, war broke out in 1939 before any Nazi faithful holidayed there, and after a spell housing East German soldiers during the cold war, the stupendously ugly set of buildings were left to rot for 20 years. Without tourists, Berlin is stuffed. But try telling that to the angry natives | Helen Pidd
At the conclusion of the event, attendees will exchange their Sergio Day gifts as they enjoy the stupendous Sergio Aragonés fireworks display.
If, then, we limit the application of the term Christendom to this, its most authentic expression, the unity of Christendom is not a lost ideal to be recovered, but a stupendous reality which has always been in stable possession. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner
{Pring Street U#lum More than anything, with stupendous size, in butch-looking Tilly Endurables for Women, and tough-girl goatee, proof certainly against any over-the-counter depilatory, that is what she was A bully, a thug .... Pioneers of Alienation and 50s Sci-Fi at Thing Street Asylum
Davies says of all the ideas he reviews: "In fact, in reviewing them they all seem to me to be either ridiculous or hopelessly inadequate: a unique universe that just happens to permit life by a fluke; a stupendous number of alternative parallel universes that exist for no reason; a preexisting God who is somehow self-explanatory; or a self-creating, self-explaining self-understanding unioverse-with-observers, entailing backward causation and teleology." page 259. A Third Choice (ID Hypothesis)
From here the view over the city, the old port and the old town, down to the sea are stupendous.
This is a stupendous performance. Times, Sunday Times
The master bedroom has an en suite and a window seat with stupendous views. Times, Sunday Times
If so be, there is indeed no intelligence elsewhere; and we must be forced to confess, that this stupendous universe, with all the various bodies contained therein -- equally amazing, whether we consider their magnitude or number, whatever their use, whatever their order -- _all_ have been produced, not by _intelligence_, but _chance_! Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life
My only crit is that Stupendous Man would kick Superman in the ass! and for this reason should be replaced! Reader Makes Periodic Table Of Superheroics - Geekologie
Now that the death of its leading investor has rendered Countess Hanna Glawari stupendously wealthy, it is imperative that her money remains in the country. The Merry Widow – review
Due to these stupendous efforts, the Finance Committee can offer a realistic and doable budget for 2005.
The Italian was quite stupendous. Times, Sunday Times
Why do politicians continue to begrudge the tiny investment that yields such stupendous results? Times, Sunday Times
Overtired and overfed politicians negotiate stupendous sums of other people's money into the night, finally agreeing to any nonsense so as to get home for Christmas.
Russia, having annexed the Crimea, had embarked on a titanic struggle with the Ottoman Empire which was absorbing stupendous quantities of manpower and treasure.
He ran up stupendous debts through his extravagant lifestyle.
You can then take a stroll in the stupendous gardens or enjoy an afternoon tea. The Sun
The soup ends up an autumnal russet colour, stupendous with a garnish of diced avocado, lime and coriander. Times, Sunday Times
It is a stupendous and, on a first visit, stupifying display of over 140 pictures by fifty artists.
They are sitting on a stupendous amount of oil after all.
Why do politicians continue to begrudge the tiny investment that yields such stupendous results? Times, Sunday Times
Perched on at least three different levels, it enjoys a stupendous view over the Nile south of Aswan city centre.
Three stupendous performances will stay in the memory.
She's back on the charts! and played with some other kids there - there was a small black girl, walking like a pro at 11 months, and stupendously cute in a blue dress that was true "babydoll" style. Medical
Either he was stupendously lucky and everyone missed, or the marksmen intentionally missed their mark. First Contact
The trouble is that bankers lend the stupendous amounts of money involved only in return for a very low risk. Times, Sunday Times
A short climb through the castle brings me to the other side of these windows - and stupendous views over the surrounding mountains. Times, Sunday Times
The Manhattan Project represented the most stupendous scientific effort in history. Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 194445
We climbed the mountain for stupendous views of the west coast.
The Chinese had potential to break new ground but instead ended up giving the world a stupendously super-sized version of Expos past that to all appearances contravenes the very theme that portended to make this Expo special, "Better City, Better LIfe. Bob Jacobson: Can the US Get Back the Needed Moral Authority to Host a 2020 World Expo?
At the top of the tower, where views are stupendous, is an observation deck and the building seems poised in air.
To the converted, the guest list at this weekend's Canadian National Comic Book Expo is stupendous.
When I passed by there this afternoon," said Corliss, "it recalled a stupendous conflict we had, once upon a time; but I couldn't remember the cause. The Flirt
The recent history of butterflies in this country has been of overall and sometimes catastrophic decline, alongside local and quite stupendous success. Times, Sunday Times
People were drawn magnetically to the windows, staring out at stupendous views in all directions.
Opportunity for each" is promised, but within the bounds of each person's ability; the reality is, some people will realize the American Dream more stupendously and significantly than others.
It looks stupendous served from a large, shallow bowl with a generous garnish of chopped parsley and lightly cooked green beans. Times, Sunday Times
The game's graphics are stupendous, amazing, superb, and outstanding - choose your favorite.
Once inverted the pie looks stupendous, the chunks of glistening red rhubarb imbedded in the cakey dough. Times, Sunday Times
The opera was quite stupendous!
I noticed out the window an absolutely stupendous view over Westminster.
A stupendous column of white alabaster, it shone as brilliantly as the hot Egyptian sun.
Pacific, but we took a few days in minibus and coach, crawling up stupendous ridges and plunging down into what felt more like canyons than valleys. Times, Sunday Times
He pulled his horses to the edge of the highway, above a stupendous array of mountains, dry rivers, scrubby hill crests.

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