sizable - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • chunk: Some people own real estate now you can own a sizable chunk of ' The World ' !
  • portion: Between them they cover a sizable portion of the city.
  • proportion: A sizable proportion of the human genome has been manually annotated by the Havana group.
  • minority: However, it is not just this sizable minority which needs homosexuality to be adequately covered.
  • crowd: By lunchtime, the car parks were full and a sizable crowd were enjoying the unexpected sunshine.
  • donation: Last week we recieved the amazing news that we have a sponsor who is going to make a sizable donation to the building!

Modifying Another Word

  • fairly: The cashier at the photo developing shop told me that new parents comprised a fairly sizable chunk of their business.
  • quite: East Kilbride became a new town and is now quite sizable.
  • pretty: Whilst modern PCs tend to come equipped with pretty sizable hard drives, it is still all too easy to run out of room.
  • still: Nevertheless there are still sizable numbers who believe IT is too difficult for them until they try.
  • rather: Activision have just released this rather sizable patch for Elite Force II, which contains a long list of fixes.

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