How to Use big brother in a Sentence

big brother

noun

• Their two older siblings, big brothers to Kayla, are now playing at he next level.
  — Mike Gramajo, orlandosentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• So grateful to have this big, magical soul join our family & can’t wait to bring him Home to the best big brother & doggie-sister ever!
  — Ira Winderman, sun-sentinel.com, 5 Dec. 2019
• As the oldest of four siblings, Alex loved playing the role of big brother, says his father John and grandfather Marv.
  — Jamie Yuccas, CBS News, 8 Feb. 2020
• Perhaps now their dads and big brothers can accept the challenge of taking the same imaginative leaps that women have been making for more than a century.
  — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post, 19 Dec. 2019
• Two more photos, taken after she’d given birth, show her holding baby Elliott with big brother Oliver, 5, by her side.
  — Richard A. Marini, ExpressNews.com, 10 Jan. 2020
• Growing up with a troubled big brother, Na’im had early on developed a sensitivity to others.
  — Joseph Goldstein, New York Times, 24 Jan. 2020
• By the nineteen-forties, Ellison’s key correspondent is Richard Wright, who, six years older, becomes something of a big brother.
  — Kevin Young, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
• The pier age Next comes the pier, big brother to the wharf.
  — Patt Morrison, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
• Kind of had to give him a big brother kick in the butt about it.
  — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 2 Dec. 2022
• He's got a big brother to look up to, and he's been around the game.
  — Evan Petzold, Detroit Free Press, 8 Mar. 2021
• The runt, the female, is the same size as her big brother.
  — Dr. Devon B. Smith, Baltimore Sun, 16 May 2024
• Tom looks up to Chris, and Chris is like a big brother to Tom.
  — Brian Truitt, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2020
• Alex was 13 at the time and Joey had to became more than a big brother.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Mar. 2021
• The next, her parents and big brother are dead, killed in a plane crash in Africa.
  — John Hopewell, Variety, 1 Sep. 2021
• He’s like a big brother, uncle, a friend, a best friend.
  — Adam Lichtenstein, Sun Sentinel, 23 Sep. 2022
• Of course, players want to play for their coach/big brother/friend.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Apr. 2022
• Yet, big brother looms and lingers as the playoffs near.
  — Bryce Miller Columnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Sep. 2020
• The night was for kids, those who came with their big brother and those who came with the buddy.
  — Paul Gattis | [e-mail], al, 12 May 2021
• So far, big brother Edwin is in the lead with one save.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 6 Apr. 2024
• Don’t even know what to say... someone who has been a big brother to me for the whole past year.
  — CBS News, 26 Mar. 2021
• His favorite thing to do is go for a car ride to the beach, come home and brag to his big brother.
  — cleveland, 23 Oct. 2020
• Mazel tov to the happy couple and their son, who will soon be a big brother!
  — Emma Specter, Vogue, 12 Feb. 2023
• The newborn joins her big brother Jack, who turns 8 on Aug. 17.
  — Ally Mauch, PEOPLE.com, 10 Aug. 2020
• Beating out big brother was the name of the game at state fair park Sunday.
  — Dave Kallmann, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 11 Dec. 2021
• To everybody else, this was a case and a cause, but to me that was my big brother.
  — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 25 May 2021
• Great grades and great hands like big brother, a Stanford grad.
  — Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2022
• Lea Michele’s son Ever Leo is ready to be a big brother!
  — Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 8 June 2024
• And when the wine was poured and the blessing was said, his big brother Elai, 26, tacked on a prayer for his safe return.
  — Richard Engel, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2023
• David Henrie is always going to feel like a big brother to Selena Gomez.
  — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 25 Sep. 2024
• Ismail is now a thriving, perfectly unruly three-nager and big brother to 1-year-old Isaac.
  — Sandra Gonzalez, CNN, 25 July 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024