How to Use big gun in a Sentence

big gun

noun

• Now's the time to break out the big guns, starting with hair gloss.
  — Harper's Bazaar Staff, Harper's BAZAAR, 13 Dec. 2018
• That’s why Baudry and his team are bringing in the big guns.
  — al, 5 May 2020
• In effect, the big guns used FFP to pull the ladder up.
  — Chris Bryant | Bloomberg, Washington Post, 20 May 2019
• So Grandpa John’s job on the boat is to help aim the big gun at the sky and try to shoot stuff down.
  — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 28 Oct. 2017
• And the aliens are not stopped by those guns, so the humans have to fire bigger guns.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 12 June 2019
• This is a big gun (46 ounces) designed for a lifetime of use.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 3 Feb. 2020
• The man with the big guns and the million-watt smile has come a long way from his days as wrestling superstar The Rock.
  — Lisa Respers France, CNN, 2 Apr. 2018
• So, to shake things up and get some eyes back on its on-court kicks, Nike brought out the big guns to serve up the LeBron 15.
  — Jake Woolf, GQ, 21 Dec. 2017
• But a sweaty woman with a big gun—and a child—was radical.
  — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• The prosecutors brought out their big guns in week two of the trial.
  — Allison Morrow, CNN, 15 Oct. 2023
• The result was a big gun weighing nine pounds with 32-inch barrels.
  — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 2 Dec. 2020
• Los Angeles is getting its big guns back just in time for the stretch run.
  — Beth Harris, The Seattle Times, 4 Sep. 2017
• His call logs send Knight and Torres to an auto shop just in time for a van full of masked dudes with big guns to show and grab the bomb.
  — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 21 Mar. 2023
• And Ukraine is getting its big guns ready to resume blasting away.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024
• With the armyworm barbarians now at the gates of China’s corn belt, the government is pulling out the big guns.
  — Gwynn Guilford, Quartz, 20 June 2019
• Miller noted that the last big gun case the Supreme Court handled was the landmark Heller decision.
  — Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner, 25 Mar. 2021
• On both nights, Ozuna saved his big guns for last, with Daddy Yankee coming in to close the show.
  — Leila Cobo, Billboard, 18 Sep. 2017
• The White armies, which supported the tsar, were approaching; the prisoners could already hear the boom of the big guns.
  — Simon Sebag Montefiore, Town & Country, 5 Oct. 2016
• Poole has been the big gun since being acquired from Kelowna early in the season.
  — Dylan Bumbarger, oregonlive, 20 Jan. 2023
• Her interest seemed to be the officer himself rather than the big gun.
  — Jim Stingl, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 June 2018
• Last night, Fed Chair Jerome Powell pulled out the central bank’s big guns as parts of the economy grind nearly to a halt.
  — John Detrixhe, Quartz, 16 Mar. 2020
• The company’s strategy for getting its big guns in the game worked.
  — John Jurgensen, WSJ, 16 Dec. 2017
• Bring in the big guns Expert Jennifer Jolly recommends the Nomorobo app.
  — Carol Motsinger, Cincinnati.com, 21 Mar. 2018
• Heynckes was forced to call on the big guns, bringing on both Thomas Muller and Robert Lewandowski after the interval.
  — SI.com, 22 Apr. 2018
• Here’s a bit of trivia for the Philly-phile: Hidden City explains why big guns and cannons used to be half-buried in city curbs and on street corners.
  — Aubrey Nagle, Philly.com, 25 June 2018
• Tulsa, Oklahoma is home to some of the nation’s biggest gun shows.
  — Heidi Przybyla, NBC News, 1 Mar. 2018
• There was the security guard oin the bus and his big gun underneath his jacket.
  — Marie Claire, 15 Feb. 2010
• Jimmy Kimmel pulled out all of the big guns (or hot dog cannons, rather), while hosting the 2018 Oscars Sunday night.
  — Eileen Reslen, Harper's BAZAAR, 5 Mar. 2018
• Then, all of that excitement was wrapped up in pulpy, pastiche aesthetics—a big hero with big guns who hates demons and wants to tear out their big guts.
  — Julie Muncy, Wired, 17 Mar. 2020
• Newcastle fans have often had to defend their status as one of the big guns of English football.
  — SI.com, 1 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 22 Oct 2024