big gun
Example Sentences
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If this appeal to latinidad still doesn’t work, Caruso brings out the big gun for his Spanish-language commercial on crime: a guy who sounds just like the Dodgers’ Hall of Fame broadcaster Jaime Jarrín.
From Los Angeles Times • May 5, 2022
I fired a 155 howitzer, this big gun on wheels.
From The Guardian • Jul. 18, 2020
His very big, big gun having been destroyed, along with his fleet of ships, he still manages to swagger out of the ocean, quite literally, and proclaim himself a king.
From Slate • May 13, 2019
On Wednesday, maritime scientists announced that they had found the sunken stern and its big gun, encrusted with sea growth, in 290 feet of water amid one of World War II’s most untouched battlefields.
From Washington Post • Aug. 15, 2018
I didn’t have time to wonder why they’d be so scared they’d keep a big gun like that out in the open because I spotted my suitcase slid way under the kitchen table!
From "Bud, Not Buddy" by Christopher Paul Curtis
