Whopping in a sentence as an adjective

Why did Nokia buy Navteq in 2008 for a whopping $8B?

Century link is also up there with a plan for a whopping 7mbps of speed down and less than 1mbps up.

And the city added a net total of a whopping 269 new housing units in 2011.

And is estimated to end up at a whopping 270 million over the next couple of decades.

Think of others for a whopping ten minutes and put down the device so we can all safely load / unload and get on/off the ground.

Bungie says it has a whopping 350 in-house developers working on Destiny Holy burn rate Batman!

Whopping in a sentence as an adverb

Sorry, but at a whopping $1050 after purchasing this critical component, I'd rather just buy a 11in Macbook air for cheaper.

" They are the culprits in a whopping 9 of 10 alcohol and drug violations and the suspected perpetrators in 4 out of 5 crimes that end up in juvenile court.

The result is the sort of do-nothing congressional bitchfest which is currently pleasing to a whopping 8% of Americans.

I had a whopping 4MB of RAM and would load the OS from a floppy disk into RAM, after which it would create a decent sized RAM drive that I would periodically save my work to.

Apple offered to license it's tech to Samsung in 2010 for a whopping $40/device - personally, I don't think that a fee that exorbitant counts, but that's personal opinion.

Whopping definitions

adjective

(used informally) very large; "a thumping loss"

See also: humongous banging thumping walloping

adverb

extremely; "they all were whopping drunk"