Sentence examples for a mammoth hit when from inspiring English sources

The song was a mammoth hit when first released, then achieved yet another level of fame 15 years later when Bill Clinton adopted it as the official theme of his presidential campaign.

The preceding single Good Vibrations had been a mammoth hit.

(Not so at the box office, where "The Avengers" was a mammoth hit).

Posner's drama, a hit when it premiered at Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company in Washington, D.C., is admittedly a tad overwritten in places.

When I was 13 years old, a Belgian nun with the unlikely name of Soeur Sourire released a single called Dominique which became a mammoth international hit.

Not to be outdone, Australia spinner Tom Veivers sent down a mammoth 95.1 overs when England batted.

The Mets pulled within one in the seventh when Boston hit a mammoth home run to right-field mezzanine level, then fell back again when Darren Daulton hit a homer off Jeff Musselman in the eighth.

There was her signature song, "To Sir, With Love," a mammoth No. 1 hit in 1967 that has survived numerous remakes, including a couple by Lulu herself.

Mantle hit a mammoth drive in Yankee Stadium in '56 that hit the upper façade of the third deck.

That ended in the second inning, when Ramón Castro hit a mammoth home run, but Pettitte immediately started a new streak that lasted until play resumed in the bottom of the sixth after a 53-minute rain delay.

Whales may be the world's biggest animals, but they don't stand a chance when hit by a mammoth cruise liner – as has just been proved in Canada.