IMMENSE in a Sentence

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225 example sentences for IMMENSE, such as:

1. What we are ignorant of is immense.
2. It is more than great, it is immense.
3. The sea was rolling in immense surges.
4. She gazed at the immense expanse of the sea.
5. He made an immense amount of money in business.

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 Meanings and Examples of IMMENSE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
immense
 a.  enormous; boundless; so great as to be beyond measurement
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  The immense plunder which this villain had amassed, was buried with him in the sea, and out of the whole only one sheep was saved.
Candide By Voltaire
Context  Highlight   In XX
2  Outside of five or six immense exceptions, which compose the splendor of a century, contemporary admiration is nothing but short-sightedness.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XII—THE SOLITUDE OF MONSEIGNEUR WELCOME
3  The universe appeared to him like an immense malady; everywhere he felt fever, everywhere he heard the sound of suffering, and, without seeking to solve the enigma, he strove to dress the wound.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIV—WHAT HE THOUGHT
4  He witnesses, amid his death-pangs, the immense madness of the sea.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VIII—BILLOWS AND SHADOWS
5  The only sound was the tiny, feeble cries of a flock of birds of passage, which was traversing the heavens at an immense height.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XIII—LITTLE GERVAIS
6  Children become acquainted quickly at that age, and at the expiration of a minute the little Thenardiers were playing with the new-comer at making holes in the ground, which was an immense pleasure.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 4: CHAPTER I—ONE MOTHER MEETS ANOTHER MOTHER
7  The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER V—HINDRANCES
8  It seemed as though two immense adders of steel were to be seen crawling towards the crest of the table-land.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IX—THE UNEXPECTED
9  Such are these immense risks proportioned to an infinite which we cannot comprehend.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW
10  It was Napoleon, the immense somnambulist of this dream which had crumbled, essaying once more to advance.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XIII—THE CATASTROPHE
11  They went astray, in their innocence, to such a degree that they introduced the immense enfeeblement of a crime into their establishment as an element of strength.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
12  It is as inexhaustible in force as is the Infinite in gales; it stores up the wind in its sails, it is precise in the immense vagueness of the billows, it floats, and it reigns.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
13  One of those facades cast its shadow on the other, which fell over the garden like an immense black pall.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE BEGINNING OF AN ENIGMA
14  In this blind alley there were tolerably low walls which abutted on gardens whose bounds adjoined the immense stretches of waste land.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER X—WHICH EXPLAINS HOW JAVERT GOT ON THE SCENT
15  It is more than great, it is immense.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI—TO SCOFF, TO REIGN
Example Sentence:
1  They spent an immense amount of time getting the engine into perfect condition.
2  He made an immense amount of money in business.
3  People who travel by rail still read an immense amount.
4  What we are ignorant of is immense.
5  Regular visits from a social worker can be of immense value to old people living alone.
6  The immense pressure causes the rock to fracture.
7  She gazed at the immense expanse of the sea.
8  The sea was rolling in immense surges.
9  The rose was chosen as the star flower because of its immense popularity.
10  He expressed immense disappointment with the way the Clintons have run the campaign.
11  The room Jacques and I occupied, though large, was dwarfed by an immense feather bed. It was a bed to end all beds, almost as big as a tennis court and as thick as a bale of hay.
12  All she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
13  It's almost impossible to find him in the immense ocean.
14  All she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves.
15  I found it immensely rewarding working with the less able children.