How To Use Whopping In A Sentence

  • About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
  • Last week I got a whopping discount on a new gas boiler, on account of my age. Times, Sunday Times
  • Just think what you could do with a whopping ten grand. The Sun
  • The "Very Funny" cable network burned off the whopping nine-episode season of its sly charmer about Chicago sportswriter PJ (Jordana Spiro) and her pals on Sundays opposite such sky-high-profile cable competition as Keeping Up with the Kardashians and Mad Men — whose costar Joel Murray, aka rehabbed alky Freddy Rumsen, guested on Boys as the owner who sold the gang's hangout, Crowley's, to Brando (Reid Scott) in the season finale. Cheers & Jeers: My Boys to Men?
  • Spread out over 7 years since we invaded, that works out to be about $100.57 billion PER YEAR out of an average annual federal budget of roughly $3.2 - $3.4 TRILLION ($3200 billion - $3400 billion) or in other words ... a whopping 2. 9% of every federal dollar spent over the last 7 years. Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
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  • The club struggled to ship them out as no one else would match their whopping wages. The Sun
  • Gold crowns and dentures could then be traded for ready money when one of those whopping utility bills lands on your doormat. Times, Sunday Times
  • Also, at the last count, you guys donated a whopping $27,695.41 to the relief fund.
  • The Russian leader won a whopping 89.9 percent yes vote.
  • Apr. 30 -- Cass County health officials are grappling with a sharp rise in pertussis -- commonly known as whopping cough -- confirming five cases in the past six months, including one that resulted in death. EMSResponder.com: Top EMS News
  • But how does the New Jersey native, who moved to Rockland in 2004 with long-time partner PJ Walter, grapple with the prospect of serving a whopping 500 pie-eyed guests? Curtis M. Wong: Bobby Flay-Dubbed 'Pie Town U.S.A.' Celebrates National Pie Day
  • * anticipating 3 nerds this week alone begging to perpose to starbuck, george lucas and koji kondo* they should do like i did and fake a shooting and have the doctors tell her in a waiting room that they couldnt save me then hand her "the bullet" which took her a whopping 30 seconds to figure out was a ring ... i am shocked she didnt notice me through the doctors mask and scrubs Geekologie - Gadgets, Gizmos, and Awesome
  • A McDonald's Big Mac carries a whopping 590 calories and 34 grams of fat.
  • Although I had resolved that morning to give up the poncing lark, by now it was several hours past the midday cocktail hour so I drove to north-west London and ponced a whopping £200 off a TV producer I know called Roy, a lovely bloke.
  • The winning team managed to get a whopping 96 out of hundred correct answers and they won two All-Ireland tickets for their endeavours.
  • Being unencumbered by any public baggage from the Thatcher or Major days is a clear plus, although this comes hand in hand with a whopping lack of experience.
  • All it takes is a healthy dose of common sense. people), and the states of Michigan and Tennessee, estimated that a whopping 25% of employer-direct medical care costs are attributable to "modifiable" factors in employees such as stress, high blood pressure, weight, high cholesterol, excess alcohol use, poor nutrition, smoking and depression. Forbes.com: News
  • I think my two favourite characters were Yoda, and the whopping big lizard that Obi-Wan was riding.
  • Besides salary and per diem, each Secret Service employee received a whopping twenty-five dollars for each boodler he captured. The Hacker Crackdown
  • Britain is a small place with a whopping great world-class city in its bottom right-hand corner. Times, Sunday Times
  • A whopping 8million is now spent daily on brekky at coffee shops and cafes. The Sun
  • Intonation and voice quality communicate 38 percent, and nonverbal cues transmit a whopping 55 percent.
  • Plus, an hour of rock climbing burns a whopping 700 calories. The Sun
  • (This assumes they have the fortitude to stare down the Chinese, who currently hold a whopping portion of US debt, and deny them something they really want).
  • Similarly, if you are a hipster and are sporting a whopping great beard, now might be the time to shave it off. The Sun
  • A North Yorkshire museum is so unpopular it costs council tax payers a whopping £9.78 per visitor to keep it open.
  • Production of NADPH dropped by 30 percent and superoxide anion dropped by a whopping 74 percent. Odds and ends | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.
  • The dress Edward bought the kid was neon pink and decidedly "hoochie" by Angie's standards, especially considering its whopping $2,000 price tag. Television Without Pity
  • Tipping the scales at a whopping 28500, this is the heavyweight of the bunch.
  • These findings are stunning because even if the bourgeois media manages to brainwash all of the 22.9% of the people who have the "average to good" label pinned on them, Hugo Chavez still wins by a whopping 18 points. Arthur Shaw: Why is Hugo Chavez so irresistible to the electorate now?
  • It's a shame for the pint-sized, goal-scoring scurrier, because according to this distance calculator , a move to the Italian fashion capital would bring poor homesick Carlos a whopping 7.6 miles nearer home. The Guardian World News
  • Secondly, a major D.C. advocacy group, the Club for Growth, decided to spend a whopping $200,000 to ensure Bennett's defeat -- the kind of intraparty hit that the Club can only afford to carry out in one or two races per cycle. Bennett Lost in Utah. Should Other Conservatives Be Scared?
  • By comparison, 9.3 percent of Americans are mad for reefer, 10.6 percent of Britons, and a whopping 15 percent of Australians.
  • Following a whopping breakfast we followed guide Greg, towing the boat with his pick-up truck, down to the boat ramp.
  • Disney admits that Pooh brings in a whopping one billion dollars a year.
  • But instead of the breadline you've now got a whopping salary -- plus a bonus on each ship! SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • He has scored a whopping 36 goals in 37 Champions League outings and leads all scorers in this season's competition with eight.
  • Indianapolis led the league in 1914 with a whopping 289 miscues but edged Chicago by one and one-half games.
  • This disguises the whopping great message of healthy eating and exercise. Times, Sunday Times
  • At that time fish was often accompanied by bread, up to a whopping quarter of a pound of it.
  • His new film ‘Paani’, with a whopping budget of 20 million dollars, will be made in both Hindi and English and will be shot in India.
  • Despite committing 12 penalties for 116 yards, Wisconsin outgained Hawaii 470-403 and held the ball for a whopping 41: 47. NCAA Football - Wisconsin vs. Hawaii
  • A whopping 256 nonblocking Fibre Channel ports have been packed into the system.
  • However, we did feel this was partially redeemed with our election editorial which has now had a whopping 10,000-plus page views.
  • Before departing for pastures new, many a sub has been known to pen some truly whopping headlines.
  • He co - founded a venture - capital firm and made a whopping fortune.
  • You are invariably greeted with a whopping great shrine in the front room, decorated to the max, with a door leading to the kitchen and family quarters behind.
  • The problem with allowing firearms officers to confer is that it opens those same officers up to charges of collusion and fabrication and it gives every aggrieved person a whopping big target to fling crap at, and every time they do public confidence in the police is hurt. Good For The Goose « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • It's a documentary type thing speculating how ancient man coped with - and generally killed off - whopping great spiky toothed animals back in the dawn of time.
  • And a whopping 66 percent of overseas fund managers thought the greenback was still too dear, despite its recent decline.
  • The club struggled to ship them out as no one else would match their whopping wages. The Sun
  • As the rate for one jukebox is a whopping $405/year for the first jukebox and $93 each additional one and the statutory minimum for copyright infringement is $750/count, it’s really a no-brainer. Matthew Yglesias » Jukeboxes are Killing The Recording Industry
  • The same weight of cod fish finger served fried contains a whopping 12.7 grams. Bad Food Britain
  • Your readers will not be surprised to learn that complaints about the unswept streets in Wandsworth increased by a whopping 42 per cent.
  • And only last year Red Star Belgrade finished a whopping five points behind their rivals Partizan Belgrade after 33 games of mellow fruitlessness. Who has played the fewest games during a full professional career? | The Knowledge
  • What a huge whopping lie, I thought with self-derision.
  • The 100g bar of Chocolat Noir, which I scoffed in one heady moment of shameless indulgence, was chock-a-block with cocoa solids - a whopping 76 per cent.
  • BISHO (ECN) - A whopping R355-million has been suspended from the provincial Welfare Department, but only R205-million of this was reflected in the Welfare standing committee financial oversight report delivered in the Bisho legislature yesterday. ANC Daily News Briefing
  • My home town of Coventry has just appointed a chief executive on a whopping salary of 175,000. The Sun
  • Just think what you could do with a whopping ten grand. The Sun
  • they all were whopping drunk
  • But he shed a whopping three stone, making him almost unrecognisable, while learning to ballroom dance! The Sun
  • But the once-in-a-lifetime meeting cost her kind-hearted granddad a whopping £25,000.
  • The same weight of cod fish finger served fried contains a whopping 12.7 grams. Bad Food Britain
  • It relies on a whopping great wind turbine or power plant. Times, Sunday Times
  • Included in Lay's figures is a whopping $81.5 million in loan advances, which were mostly repaid in stock, and which are worth next to nothing today.
  • Now, here's the rub: our meal plus two pints and two halves of lager set us back a whopping £50.90p.
  • Just think what you could do with a whopping ten grand. The Sun
  • The German side showed little rust in returning to action following the Bundesliga's winter break - and are starting to make good on striker Mohamed Zidan's prediction of having the title wrapped up by February - beating then third-placed Bayer Leverkusen 3-1 last Friday to extend its lead at the top of the table to a whopping 12 points over second-placed The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed
  • Now, here's the rub: our meal plus two pints and two halves of lager set us back a whopping £50.90.
  • As if having to recall a whopping 180,865 vehicles in the UK from the Auris, Avensis, Aygo, Corolla, iQ, Verso and Yaris ranges for having dodgy accelerator pedals wasn't embarassing enough, it's now announced a global recall of its third-generation Prius due to rubbish brakes. Crave at CNET UK
  • But instead of the breadline you've now got a whopping salary -- plus a bonus on each ship! SEIZE THE RECKLESS WIND
  • He looked back, then surged ahead and sprinted up the 21 hairpin bends to the summit, claiming his first stage victory and beating Ullrich by a whopping 1 minute, 59 seconds. USATODAY.com - Armstrong completes third straight win
  • His daily calorific intake may reach a whopping 7,000 calories.
  • Without official status or a whopping pot of prize-money and appearance fees, it is doubtful whether this event could have been staged.
  • THIS little wooden beach shack is a real hut property - as it costs a whopping 70,000. The Sun
  • The premise is a simple one - Germaine Lauzon, mother and housewife, has won a whopping one million stamps in an annual contest.
  • This term, intramural basketball has been more popular than in previous summer terms with a whopping 43 teams.
  • In the last fiscal, revenue deficit, at Rs 241,273 crore, had outsoared the original estimate by whopping Daily News & Analysis
  • The pre-tax charge helped erode Tribune's quarterly profits by a whopping 58%.
  • A whopping 150-year-old wellingtonia tree dominates the back garden. Times, Sunday Times
  • Clydesdale Bank charges a whopping 33.51% as well as clobbering you with fees.
  • There is plenty of space inside the car, a whopping amount of loadspace in the boot and a seriously large fuel tank to give the car a superb long-distance touring ability.
  • Would you believe these shrewd, profit-minded wheeler-dealers are pocketing a whopping 100 per cent of the profits on the sales of those puppies?!
  • Which means America should be having a whopping big debate about how to respond to this not-so-brave new world we find ourselves living on.
  • A 100g portion gives a whopping ten teaspoons of sugar. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's still a diabetic-friendly, calorie-free and low-GI sweetener that measures 1: 1 to sugar (by weight, not volume), but JLS is all-natural and a whopping source of fibre: in 100g of the powder, there are 96 g of the good stuff! Archive 2009-04-01
  • Albracht won the 2005 National Corn Yield Contest in the "irrigated" category, producing a whopping 352 bushels per acre. Turning water into ethanol is no miracle
  • A whopping 75 % of non - Jewish, non - Muslim American are circumcised.
  • Their distinctive whooping call is instantly recognizable, hence the name whopping crane, and if you catch a look at one on the wing, they are a majesty to behold. Mind Petals: Infinite ideas to bloom
  • My experience this morning involved somewhat smaller, though no less threatening, parents - two pairs of Canada geese, one with four goslings and one with a whopping total of nine.
  • The only disadvantage he has is that he is a tad younger than me; but that disadvantage is also a whopping great advantage, obviously. Times, Sunday Times
  • It puts total exposure to property at a whopping Euro 300 billion ( $ 450 billion ).
  • A whopping 99 per cent of gravies would also receive an amber or red traffic light for high salt content. The Sun
  • JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's the kind of story you don't want when you're flying around the country, trying to appeal to average people like hockey moms and Joe and Jane Six Pack: a chichi shopping spree for Governor Sarah Palin and her family, compliments of the Republican National Committee, with a whopping $150,000 price tag, at fancy clothing stores, according to reports filed with the Federal Election Commission. CNN Transcript Oct 22, 2008
  • Last year the bank booked a profit of $77 million after a whopping $3.4-billion loss in 1998.
  • The best way to invest in a fund is usually to invest small amounts on a regular basis rather than one great big whopping lump sum.
  • But Straight is both underwritten and undermined by a whopping great central conceit that needs your goodwill to sustain it. Times, Sunday Times
  • There is a manuscript note by another official which comments on this minute; it refers to ‘a certain old fashioned reluctance to tell a whopping fib, or even a little fib, depending on the number of permanent inhabitants’.
  • Even so, the most commonly owned boats, those with outboard motors, currently average a whopping $11,000 retail.
  • The product contains the professed memory-booster phosphatidylserine and sells for a whopping $60 for 144 pieces; a company spokesman concedes that it's "" probably the most expensive gum in the world. '' Candy And Coffee Are The New Health Foods? We Wish.
  • This jade flask was sold for a whopping £2.9 million
  • The biggest retrospective payout to a single family was a whopping 700,000. Times, Sunday Times
  • But the once-in-a-lifetime meeting cost her kind-hearted granddad a whopping £25,000.
  • However, while the metal Airbus A380 weighs a whopping 580 tonnes, the dainty carbon fiber Solar Impulse weighs just 1.5 tonnes – which seems almost kite-like compared the gigantic heavy planes of the past. SOLAR IMPULSE Solar Powered Plane Takes Off! | Inhabitat
  • The 100g bar of Chocolat Noir, which I scoffed in one heady moment of shameless indulgence, was chock-a-block with cocoa solids - a whopping 76 per cent.
  • A whopping 75 % of non - Jewish, non - Muslim American are circumcised.
  • Imagine a bill of €128 million last year of which a whopping €84 million was spent on accommodation.
  • We were the underbidder on the GOLD Pan Pac which sold for a whopping $345,000.00. THE FUN SHOW 2009 : Coin Collecting News
  • Last week I got a whopping discount on a new gas boiler, on account of my age. Times, Sunday Times
  • In tort-plagued states like Nevada, for instance, premiums for an ob-gyn specialist now average a whopping $83,000 a year.
  • But hey, students will be in the classroom a whopping 13 minutes more a day.
  • A 2.2 acre site in Carraroe went under the hammer for a whopping €1.56 million at a public auction last Friday.
  • Plus, an hour of rock climbing burns a whopping 700 calories. The Sun
  • He told a whopping great lie!
  • Fein eliminates the bromide altogether, substitutes benzotriazole, increases the sulfite, and adds a whopping 13.5 grams of citric acid.
  • I have already posted 7 whopping Limbaugh lies about Obama which is just the tip of the fatberg, so you can quit beating that dead horse! Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local
  • If anything, post-humanism is what comes after post-modernism, but they are both such whopping great doctrines with so many dimensions that they undoubtedly relate in more complex and subtle ways than that. Stefan Zweig « Tales from the Reading Room
  • In test tube assays using fat cells, the polyphenolic polymers were found to increase sugar metabolism a whopping 20-fold.
  • It is estimated that government will be coining a whopping R258 million a year from the additional fee on the country's 8.6 million registered motor vehicle owners," said DA spokesman on transport, ANC Daily News Briefing
  • Firstly France, with their star fly-half back in harness, won revenge for their previous defeat, thumping Scotland by a whopping 61-0.
  • Gold crowns and dentures could then be traded for ready money when one of those whopping utility bills lands on your doormat. Times, Sunday Times
  • He's got a whopping great bill to pay. Times, Sunday Times
  • One family with a whopping big tax bill is in West Virginia.
  • While America's official unemployment rate is already 10.2%, the figure jumps to a whopping 17.5% when discouraged workers and partially employed workers are included.
  • The show gained her praise from critics as she royally owned the role, and the series averaged a whopping 7.7 million viewers. The Sun
  • Maybe the pair are speaking to each other or have dialled an exclusive celebrity service that counts down the number of calories you've burnt while sat on the phone (dialling a ten digit number scorches a whopping 2 calories, explaining why Dav-vid went to international dialling code Italy and the couple only speak for three seconds before hanging up and redialling). Anorak News
  • The Russian leader won a whopping 89.9 percent yes vote.
  • It relies on a whopping great wind turbine or power plant. Times, Sunday Times
  • GETTING rid of ruddy ducks has landed taxpayers with a whopping bill of more than 1million. The Sun
  • With a market capitalization of roughly $8 billion, Xilinx is large by midcap standards, but is dwarfed by Intel's whopping $116 billion market capitalization. Bullish Options Plays In Midcap Chip Stocks
  • Chang said his shipyard is now working on another mega yacht - a whopping 77m craft that will be in the world's top 10.
  • Despite her whopping $50 million settlement she is said to be hurting for cash.
  • A whopping ten million copies of the books were sold last year alone. The Sun
  • There's also a dish of Kobe beef, which was bland, meagerly portioned, and not worth the whopping price tag of $56.
  • In the meantime, they supposedly can't afford any raises larger than the recent whopping 4% one, and I am so broke I just had to borrow money from one of my roomies to make it to the next payday.
  • The sun is expected to survive for a whopping 10 million years, while massive stars live to be a mere 3 million years old because they burn up so fast.
  • Just think what you could do with a whopping ten grand. The Sun
  • Just one average dish of the ubiquitous stir fry packs a whopping 1,321 kilojoules, with 23 teaspoons of oil and 115 grams of fat.
  • THIS little wooden beach shack is a real hut property - as it costs a whopping 70,000. The Sun
  • It can dehumidify down to 42-degrees, and some models hold a whopping 65 pints of water.
  • With a mouthful of this murderous fruitlike dentition, tyrannosaurs had a whopping bite, which might have made up for their reduced forelimbs.
  • Given that the club's most recent figures put total wages and salaries at a whopping £7.5 million a year, it is clear that the wage bill needs not so much trimming as slashing this summer.
  • Fungi fan Kevin is struggling to make room for this mushroom - a whopping wild puffball he plucked from a secret location.
  • Just think what you could do with a whopping ten grand. The Sun
  • I don't know about pissant, but plowboy has been a member for 37 weeks and 20 hours, and I see he's got a whopping five posts under his belt. Here Are Advance Excerpts Of Obama's Big Terrorism Speech Today
  • Just last month, a full 14 months since my last period, I had a miserable 3-4 weeks of bloating, breast tenderness, crankiness and a 5 pound weight gain, along with a pleasant little blip in libido, followed by a whopping migraine the likes of which I had not had for months, followed by a week long episode of vaginal bleeding. Menopause Defined
  • In the US, it has earned a whopping $13m (unheard of for an unrated, subtitled movie).
  • If you're a vegetarian, leave out the meat and make your lasagna with fat-free ricotta cheese, which adds a whopping 40 grams of protein per half-cup.
  • It would not be fair to ignore some of the better snouts like David Taylor Con (NW Leics) £1.45, Malcolm Moss Con (NE Cambs) £2.18, Mike O'Brien Lab (N Warwicks) £1. 47and Paul Clarke Lab (Gillingham) the PPS to Ed Balls who clocked up a whopping £4.10 per mile! Archive 2008-03-01
  • He insisted upon whopping Scaife for what he called disobedience and impudence. The Hill A Romance of Friendship
  • The team committed a whopping 58 penalties in four preseason games and failed to reduce the problems from week to week.
  • Using the same 11.5% theft rate assumption, that's a whopping $55 billion in unrealized subscriber asset value throughout the industry.
  • Huge congratulations to you, with that whopping great gold medal. The Sun
  • If anything, post-humanism is what comes after post-modernism, but they are both such whopping great doctrines with so many dimensions that they undoubtedly relate in more complex and subtle ways than that. Stefan Zweig « Tales from the Reading Room
  • The orange, purple and silver butterfly vanished in the 1990s, possibly aided by man's use of parasitic wasps and flies brought in to combat the gypsy moth - another whopping human error.
  • Inundated with cash donations and the proceeds from fantastic fundraising events, we have gone on to raise a whopping £16,000 in just three months.
  • However, the folks behind a recent study sound surprised that a whopping 56 % of resumes are now sent by email.
  • The Patriots were outgained by a whopping 470 yards.
  • Gold crowns and dentures could then be traded for ready money when one of those whopping utility bills lands on your doormat. Times, Sunday Times
  • So, I'm now on a new course - instead of 100 mcg 17B-oestrodiol by patch, I'm on a whopping 8 mg of Oestrodiol valerate orally, as a prelude to bigger and better things later. Archive 2006-02-01
  • The normal method for calculating the number produces a huge voter turnout figure - a whopping 98.1 per cent.
  • That's also true of his plan to "amortize" sharply increased pension costs over a 10-year period - which will reduce a 52% annual increase in pension contributions to a still-whopping 33% increase. NY Post: News
  • The mood of the people was downcast after Australia notched up a whopping 359.
  • Just think what you could do with a whopping ten grand. The Sun
  • Invented in 1985, modern-day magnetic stimulators charge up to a whopping 3,000 volts and produce peak currents of up to 8,000 amps - powers similar to those of a small nuclear reactor.
  • At least 20 top City institutions are getting their whopping Christmas bonuses paid in Turkish lire.
  • With a whopping $30-million budget, Nouvelle-France is one of the most costly Québécois films ever produced.
  • If you are willing to pay an extra $14,000 to gain a whopping 2-5 mpg, you have way too much money. 14 mpg is not good gas mileage, nor is the 22 mpg that the hybrid gains. Greenwashing Eli Manning’s New Hybrid Caddi-Wack Escalade | Inhabitat
  • We had to pay rent, which was as I recall a whopping $180 per month. Kristine Kathryn Rusch » 2009 » June
  • He managed to get a TV celebrity to open the theatre -- but at a whopping fee.
  • Sources Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood that Fox's X-Men Origins: Wolverine "clawed" a whopping $35 million debut Friday in part to heavy attendance at evening shows and the studio's widest release ever into 4,099 theaters. BroadwayWorld.com Featured Content
  • And up for grabs is a whopping prize pot of 150,000. The Sun
  • Council information also suggests that a whopping 1.5 million people had an opportunity to see press information on Celtic Fusion.
  • These basically work by having your mortgage debt in your bank account as one whopping big overdraft.
  • He triggers devastating explosions with bombs, pulverises solid boulders with a whopping great hammer, lifts up massive great marble pillars and lobs them like cabers, and is well nifty with both sword and bow.
  • The plot is engaging and has a whopping 10,000 words of dialogue.
  • But Straight is both underwritten and undermined by a whopping great central conceit that needs your goodwill to sustain it. Times, Sunday Times
  • Chang said his shipyard is now working on another mega yacht - a whopping 77m craft that will be in the world's top 10.
  • Fein eliminates the bromide altogether, substitutes benzotriazole, increases the sulfite, and adds a whopping 13.5 grams of citric acid.
  • Companies indicated that, in their opinion, a whopping 75% of time taken was due to feigned illness or malingering.
  • By then, the total investment will have been a whopping €350 million, not small change even by today's inflated standards.
  • I can have a whopping great big Mexican meal guilt-free now because eating like this has fired up my metabolism.
  • Now let's presume that each firm is willing to commit a whopping 15% of their current fund to the effort.
  • Tickets for the Philadelphia date go on sale in May, starting at $2.50 for the nosebleed seats and topping out at a whopping $5.50 for the floor.
  • UK acts now account for a whopping one in ten records sold in North America. The Sun

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