Sentence examples for tremendous sums from inspiring English sources

Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo sold for tremendous sums — those of the Sistine Chapel were especially prized.

Investigators soon learned that Mr. Alvarado had borrowed tremendous sums of money -- tens of thousands of dollars -- from school employees, Mr. Chin included.

In Europe, the nexus of the soccer world, teams are earning tremendous sums from television contracts and merchandise sales, but they are also losing money because uncontrolled player salaries have skyrocketed.

These were tremendous sums at a time when a well-paid worker was paid roughly $3 a day and the annual revenue of the federal government was a mere $355 million.

Both can spend tremendous sums by political standards without altering their lifestyles.

Haiti did not finish its war reparation payments until 1947, and in order to pay the debt Haiti had to borrow tremendous sums of money from American, French and German banks at almost usury rates.

"A tremendous sum for a college student on an R.O.T.C. scholarship.

Fitzgerald, for example, earned $50,000 a year, then a tremendous sum, from the Jazz at the Philharmonic series alone.

Ziegfeld tried to star Claire in musical comedy at tremendous sum so she wouldn't take this play.

But it still added up to a tremendous sum that was just jaw-dropping.

There's a tremendous sum of good that comes out of the marathon.