15 example sentences using immensity.
Immensity used in a sentence
Immensity in a sentence as a noun
[Cue up the Antoine de Saint-Exupery quote re: longing for the endless immensity of the sea.]
Otherwise, someone will be unhappy and most probably this one will be a child that has no way to express the immensity of its distress.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
"If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather inspire them to long for the infinite immensity of the sea."
Combined with the immensity of our codebase, it's going to be time-consuming to put a finger on a single repro-able cause.
For there is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call Void; in it are innumerable globes like this one on which we live and grow.
And to the admins of the systems, that monitoring metrics of network bandwidth could have shown the immensity of the traffic for replication.
I will paint for him not only the the visible universe, but all that he can conceive of nature’s immensity in the enclosure of this diminished atom.
Enormity has been in frequent and continuous use in the sense immensity since the 18th century: The enormity of the task was overwhelming.
If you teach them to long for the immensity of the sea, as it were, won't they get frustrated by building the boat and start to take dangerous short cuts so they can get out to sea, or maybe even ride whales and drown?
“If you want to build a ship, don’t herd people together to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”\n— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
A quote comes to mind:\n"""\nIf you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.\n"""\nAntoine de Saint-Exupery
Millennials having grown up with internet friends and now entire social media networks may just be overwhelmed with the day to day situation of the normal local mundane day job, and the immensity of internet social networks.
When we recognize our place in an immensity of lightyears and in the passage of ages, when we grasp the intricacy, beauty, and subtlety of life, then that soaring feeling, that sense of elation and humility combined, is surely spiritual.
Let him therein see an infinity of universes of which each has its firmament, its planets, its earth, in the same proportion as in the visible world; in each earth animals, and at the last the mites, in which he will come upon all that was in the first, and still find in these others the same without end and without cessation; let him lose himself in wonders as astonishing in their minuteness as the others in their immensity; for who will not be amazed at seeing that our body, which before was imperceptible in the universe, itself imperceptible in the bosom of the whole, is now a colossus, a world, a whole, in regard to the nothingness to which we cannot attain.
Immensity definitions
unusual largeness in size or extent or number
See also: enormousness grandness greatness immenseness sizeableness vastness wideness