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Big in a sentence

Sentence examples for big. Learn how established writers used the word in their sentences. Learn how to imitate them to express your idea.

Two big ones.

Dick was a big man.

He cut Nick a big piece.

You get a big enough cut.

He knew how big a man he was.

The crowd gave him a big hand.

He only writes the big fights.

You get a big enough cut, don’t you?

There was a big fire in the fireplace.

That Happy Steinfelt’s a big operator.

“That’s an awfully big shot,” Nick said.

Paris was an awful big town after Milan.

He made a big shadow on the kitchen wall.

What do you mean, kike, you big Irish bum?

They all come here and eat the big dinner.

Billy Tabeshaw carried two big cant-hooks.

Big ones?” a woman asked from the doorway.

Do you know a big Swede named Ole Andreson?

“They’re big ones with horns,” Manuel agreed.

“Bring one of the big beech chunks,” Bill said.

That next big cape ought to put it out of sight.

Do we want big men⁠—or do we want them cultured?

She lay in the lower bunk, very big under a quilt.

He looked at Manuel, leaning back behind the big desk.

They’re always talking about kikes, these big Irishmen.

The big trees swayed far over in the wind as he watched.

A big old wrought-iron grating from the front of a house.

Jim was short and dark with big mustaches and big hands.

Inside at the bottom was the big trout, alive in the water.

There were big palms and green benches in the public garden.

Retana said nothing but looked at Manuel across the big desk.

There were four big beech logs lying almost buried in the sand.

Close beside the boat a big trout broke the surface of the water.

He and Mrs. Elliot slept in a big, hot bedroom on a big, hard bed.

Nick ate a big flapjack and a smaller one, covered with apple butter.

It was a nice big room with two beds and a door opening into a bathroom.

The houses were in a big grove of elm trees and the road was very sandy.

Then they bellied over the big double Bullfinch and something came down.

We sat down at a table under a big tree and the king ordered whisky and soda.

Listen. I’ll pic for you and if you don’t go big tomorrow night, you’ll quit.

No one who lived in it was out of sound of the big saws in the mill by the lake.

Rinaldi, big backed, his equipment sprawling, lay face downward against the wall.

He spread the mouth of the sack and looked down in at the two big trout alive in the water.

That’s what I get for marrying a brute of a man, a great, big, hulking physical specimen of a⁠—

Nick’s father went into the kitchen and poured about half of the water out of the big kettle into a basin.

The logs had been lost from the big log booms that were towed down the lake to the mill by the steamer Magic.

Just when the sun made the water blinding in the glare before it went down, you were liable to strike a big trout anywhere in the current.

He felt a reaction against deep wading with the water deepening up under his armpits, to hook big trout in places impossible to land them.

The big mill building had all its machinery that was removable taken out and hoisted on board one of the schooners by the men who had worked in the mill.

In the swamp the banks were bare, the big cedars came together overhead, the sun did not come through, except in patches; in the fast deep water, in the half light, the fishing would be tragic.

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