Explore Big through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like large or heavy. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Big in a sentence
Related words
Big meaning
- Of great size, large.
- Fat.
Synonyms of Big
Big vertaling naar Nederlands
Using Big
- The main meaning on this page is: Of great size, large. | Of great size, large. | Fat.
- Useful related words include: large, heavy, generous, proud.
- Possible Dutch translations are: volwassen.
- In the example corpus, big often appears in combinations such as: the big, big big, and big.
Context around Big
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 11 start, 9 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 0 questions, 2 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Big
- In this selection, "big" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 26.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, brothers, coast, junior, bear, brothers and sisters stand out and add context to how "big" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include big brothers big sisters of, adjective meaning big a language, big ten, big bear and big brother. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "big" sits close to words such as based, party and took, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with big
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Big Guy- Big Heart- Big Smile! (6 words)
Now they are touring in big buses with big bands and performing in big venues. (15 words)
We’ll go Big 12, Big East, SEC and Big Ten, in that order, for now. (16 words)
In the first segment, Matt said: "Let's kick things off with a big personality that always keeps me on my toes with his big energy, it's the one and only Big Zuu making a delicious bhaji bun with a side of his usual naughtiness. (46 words)
The few times we did get to hunt Easter eggs outdoors were memorable, indeed, because in addition to a big yard, there was a big grove of chokecherry, serviceberry and oak bushes out behind the house, with great big rocks hidden among them. (43 words)
For instance, "with their big ships" is suuri·ne laivo·i·ne·en (big-COM ship(oblique)-PL-COM-POS 3PL), while "with his/her big ships" is suuri·ne laivo·i·ne·nsa ((big-COM ship(oblique)-PL-COM-POS 3SG)). (42 words)
Big Guy- Big Heart- Big Smile! (6 words)
Big Boom lays him out and QT blasts him with a big boot but Big Justice is in the ring and drops Marshall with a spear! (26 words)
Example sentences (20)
Big Bear, CA – Big Bear News – The Big Bear Fire Department has reported a roof collapse of a structure on the 500 Block of Maltby Blouvard in Big Bear City.
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Kincardine & District is now Big Brothers Big Sisters of South Bruce North Huron.
Jack’s Family Restaurants (Jack’s) has announced the launch of a “round-up” campaign to support Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Gulf Coast (Big Brothers Big Sisters).
Big oil creates big wars that need loans from big central banks to feed the big war-machine.
Whether it’s big runs, big completions, interceptions, fumbles, sacks, big hits, or touchdowns, the trailer is filled with plenty o big-time highlights from a bunch of Buckeyes.
For example, rather than an adjective meaning "big", a language might have a verb that means "to be big", and could then use an attributive verb construction analogous to "big-being house" to express what English expresses as "big house".
For instance, "with their big ships" is suuri·ne laivo·i·ne·en (big-COM ship(oblique)-PL-COM-POS 3PL), while "with his/her big ships" is suuri·ne laivo·i·ne·nsa ((big-COM ship(oblique)-PL-COM-POS 3SG)).
And there are industries — like Big Oil, Big Pharma and Big Tobacco — that persistently do rotten things.
Big Guy- Big Heart- Big Smile!
He knows that to have a chance to do what Floyd Mayweather Jr. did — to have big fight after big fight after big fight — he has to secure a major win relatively early in his career.
It was a BIG day here in the Big Sky with some beautiful Big Sky weather with temps close to 50, on Saturday.
Let’s just hope the one “big, big, big candidate” who may be left actually wants Denver.
The few times we did get to hunt Easter eggs outdoors were memorable, indeed, because in addition to a big yard, there was a big grove of chokecherry, serviceberry and oak bushes out behind the house, with great big rocks hidden among them.
Those are mostly scooped up by the six strongest and richest conferences: the Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern.
We’ll go Big 12, Big East, SEC and Big Ten, in that order, for now.
Big Boom lays him out and QT blasts him with a big boot but Big Justice is in the ring and drops Marshall with a spear!
In the first segment, Matt said: "Let's kick things off with a big personality that always keeps me on my toes with his big energy, it's the one and only Big Zuu making a delicious bhaji bun with a side of his usual naughtiness.
It’s a big, complicated system and like any big, complicated system it requires big, complicated grownups to run it.
It was battle of the two big men early on between Rebels’ junior big man Jaquon McKinney and Bulldogs’ junior big man Jamel Howse.
Now they are touring in big buses with big bands and performing in big venues.
Phrases with big
These phrases have their own page with example sentences containing the full combination:
Common combinations with big
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- the big 63×
- big big 26×
- and big 24×
- big ten 17×
- of big 17×
- is big 15×
- with big 14×
- big bear 11×
- big sisters 11×
- big tech 11×