How to Use big stick in a Sentence

big stick

noun

• Sky News’s fate is one of the biggest sticking points in this takeover saga.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2018
• Holding him back: Portrush is the unknown for so many and at over 7,300 yards will call on the big stick.
  — Geoff Shackelford, azcentral, 16 July 2019
• Glove decently and carry a big stick, and there should be a spot for you in the lineup.
  — Michael Beller, SI.com, 13 June 2019
• Pressure to beat the Nazis to the ultimate punch; pressure to have the biggest stick on the playground.
  — Paul Ross, Popular Mechanics, 27 July 2018
• The big stick would be this nuclear EMP attack that caps all of these.
  — Fox News, 23 Apr. 2018
• Bloomberg news on the biggest sticking points between the House and Senate tax bills.
  — Anne Cronin, Bloomberg.com, 4 Dec. 2017
• Their respect is earned not by wielding the big stick, but instead by wielding the big brain.
  — Jamie Samuelsen, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2018
• But this time, Jay took out the big stick and belted a 413-foot home run over the right-center field wall off starter Daniel Gossett.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, kansascity, 3 June 2018
• Holtby also made a big stick save on Alex Tuch late in the third period.
  — Kevin Allen, USA TODAY, 30 May 2018
• Gone are the days of the big stick – using the latest, fastest, and biggest processor to do everything.
  — Jim McGregor, Forbes, 24 June 2022
• So, that’s at least three pennant races for which any team could have Soto swinging a big stick in the middle of their lineup.
  — Matt Young, Chron, 18 July 2022
• The biggest sticking point remains how to handle the Dreamers.
  — Kristina Peterson, WSJ, 7 June 2018
• Immigration remains one of the biggest sticking points in the talks.
  — Melissa Eddy, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2018
• Speak softly and carry a big stick, a famous soldier turned politician once said.
  — Gerard Baker, WSJ, 19 July 2021
• The hit product emerges, while the silhouette makes a big stick diplomacy statement.
  — Rachel Tashjian, Harper's BAZAAR, 23 Sep. 2022
• Jackson is the picture of speaking softly and carrying a big stick.
  — Ted Dunnam, Houston Chronicle, 19 May 2018
• As an emerging great power, India must carry its own big stick.
  — CNN, 4 June 2020
• Threats of using a big stick have failed to alter Russian behavior, so the U.S. has nothing to lose in dangling a carrot.
  — David Ramseur, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Mar. 2018
• Those that don’t like the sound of Yellen’s proposals may think about accelerating their plans for whittling down that big stick.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 10 Apr. 2021
• Dangled over the counties’ heads is a big stick: the possibility of the state placing greater restrictions on them.
  — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2020
• Smith speaks softly but carries a big stick and a bigger punch, one of the few on the team who will take an opponent to task for taking liberties with the Wings' best players.
  — Helene St. James, Detroit Free Press, 14 Sep. 2021
• Imagine a rally of Trump supporters and 15 anti-Trump protesters came with big sticks and mace?
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2019
• Walk softly and carry a very big stick or an aircraft carrier battle group.
  — Fox News, 9 May 2018
• Next best perhaps is speaking loudly while carrying a big stick.
  — Victor Davis Hanson, National Review, 3 Oct. 2017
• One of the biggest sticking points relates to the portion of a car that must be made in North America to qualify for Nafta’s zero tariffs.
  — New York Times, 10 May 2018
• There are several large culinary demonstrations that are drenched in science, but hopefully not with a big stick to hit the audience over the head.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Philly.com, 31 Oct. 2017
• One of the biggest sticking points here is Chrome; Google's browser is the most widely used third-party application on Windows.
  — Peter Bright, Ars Technica, 21 Nov. 2018
• Biden has been given the opportunity, in the words of the African proverb cited by Theodore Roosevelt in a different context, to speak softly and carry a big stick.
  — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 2 Mar. 2021
• Denuclearization This is the biggest sticking point between the two sides.
  — Fortune, 31 May 2018
• Mogilny, who was terrifying as a 76-goal Sabre, put up 55 one year with the Canucks, and carried a big stick for the turn-of-the-century Devils, has both the stats and cultural impact to warrant inclusion.
  — Matt Porter, BostonGlobe.com, 29 June 2019

Last Updated: 2 Dec 2024