big
Usage
Example Sentences
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Watching this team lose, or threaten to lose, big leads in games in recent seasons breeds a certain worry.
From BBC
Last year’s blitz of bills, capping off years of gradual legislative efforts to remove regulatory barriers to building dense housing across California, has, in Wicks’ view, teed up this next big swing.
From Los Angeles Times
Scotland promised a big performance and they delivered an intensity, an accuracy and a ruthlessness that was totally absent in Rome.
From BBC
In big air, athletes ride down a slope towards a massive ramp, which they use to soar into the air and perform different aerial tricks.
From Barron's
"If there's going to be some kind of bigger European investments in France or the UK's nuclear deterrence, that's only a good thing," Finnish Defence Minister Antti Hakkanen recently told AFP.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
