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How to use the word bigness in a Sentence?

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We had flung down the adze from the top of the fall and also the logbook and the cooker wrapped in one of our blouses. That was all, except our wet clothes, that we brought out of the Antarctic, which we had entered a year and a half before with well-found ship, full equipment, and high hopes. That was all of tangible things; but in memories we were rich. We had pierced the veneer of outside things. We had suffered, starved, and triumphed, groveled down yet grasped at glory, grown bigger in the bigness of the whole. We had seen God in his splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.

Sir Ernest Shackleton

added by anonymous
2 years ago

My son was so little, explaining 300 days to him was out of the question, answering the questions about when dad would be home every single day wore on me so badly, I actually wound up making a huge paper chain for( my son Howie), with the number of chain links matching the number of days left. At first, it wrapped around our bannister from the second floor. We tore one off every night before bed, and it helped my son understand the bigness of time away, but that it was getting smaller.

Reda Hicks

Found on CNN
2 years ago

This is thousands of times bigger, the United States, than the biggest company in the world, it’s massive. And every agency is, like, bigger than any company. So you know, I really just see the bigness of it all, but also the responsibility.

President Trump

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness.

Eric Sevareid

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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