Sample Sentences forenormity (editor-reviewed)
enormity as in: enormity of the crime
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She did not immediately grasp the enormity and the horror of their policy.enormity = extreme wickedness
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The photographs depict the enormity of the crime.
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She knew full well the enormity of her offense, but because her desires were stronger than the code she was breaking, she persisted in breaking it. (source)
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The pause was only long enough for them to understand what an enormity the downward stroke would be. (source)enormity = extreme wickedness or evilness
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They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening. (source)enormity = extreme wickedness
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Now that he had time to think of it, his son's crime stood out in its stark enormity.† (source)
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It hit me again, the enormity of what I had done that winter and that following summer.† (source)
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Fear at the enormities of the forbidden kept her desires delicate, wire and bone.† (source)
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The enormity of what Jakub is saying begins to register.† (source)
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The world is growing too ethereal and spiritual to bear these enormities a great while longer.† (source)
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The enormity of what I've done overwhelms me and I'm trembling.† (source)
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Topsy always made great capital of her own sins and enormities, evidently considering them as something peculiarly distinguishing.† (source)
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Aspen's green eyes grew wide for a second, taking in the enormity of that question.† (source)
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Our Pawnee friend is already staked for the torture, and I well know, by the eye and the countenance of the great Sioux, that he is leading on the temper of his people to further enormities.† (source)
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The enormity and suddenness of Williams's downfall shocked Savannah.† (source)
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The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.† (source)
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