Examples of “whacking” in a Sentence

adj Informal: unusually large; enormous (often paired with another adjective like "great" or "big").

• He seizes on an opportunity to buy a house at a repo-auction, planning to sell it on for a whacking profit. — Peter Bradshaw, House of Sand and Fog (2004)
• There was no secret in Genoa about the destination of the little tramp with the peculiar equipment of lifeboats and davits—two whacking great motor boats each as big as a Navy pinnace, each with a couple of hundred horse-power in her. — Neville Shute (1926)
• He told a whacking great lie to get out of trouble.
• If any of you want a whacking lot of experience, lots of thrills to the minute and can pay your own freight, sign up for that trip to the land of the Northern Lights. — Delta Sigma Delta-Desmos (1932)