How to Use by and large in a Sentence

by and large

adverb

• But commenters by and large agree that Jen was the one in the wrong.
  — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
• The best of them are, by and large, short-range repeaters.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 18 Dec. 2020
• But by and large, the way people watched TV hadn’t changed since the 1950s.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• Which means that these recipes are by and large easy to pull off.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2018
• Fans by and large want to see lots of offense and lots of points.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• The country, by and large, doesn’t want what Trump has wrought.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2020
• But, by and large, drinkers simply adapted to the change.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• But by and large, the vory themselves had died out by then.
  — Alex Abramovich, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
• But by and large, trams remain firmly part of life in the east of the city.
  — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
• But, by and large, the players of the era are captured, in addition to the feel.
  — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2022
• And yet all of this bounty is still, by and large, for the cognoscenti.
  — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
• Suppose that the numbers showed that by and large, the drivers went to the right edge.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• But by and large the Muslims have not applied the 'eye for an eye' law.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2020
• But the center, by and large, still had a leading role.
  — USA Today, 22 Apr. 2021
• The club believes the upside, by and large, was already there.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• But a sense of humour is, by and large, a useful thing to have in life.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
• The piped in fake crowd noise was, by and large, annoying.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2021
• But by and large, Watt hadn’t yet figured out how to work with his idol.
  — Brad Sanders, SPIN, 13 Mar. 2023
• But by and large, the women on these teams seem to agree: Simone Biles did the right thing.
  — Sarah Spelling, Vogue, 28 July 2021
• But, by and large, Irabién prefers tortillas hot off the comal.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• Alaskans and Americans are, by and large, very middle-of-the-road.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
• Since 2014, the position has, by and large, been Tim Melia’s.
  — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
• Smith is, by and large, the series' eye-rolling MacGuffin.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2018
• The world of college sports, by and large, has moved on from the mess left behind by Hugh Freeze.
  — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2018
• South Pasadena has changed over the years but, by and large, still has much of the charm it's always had.
  — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• Since then nature has, by and large, healed those wounds, Rothrock said.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
• But by and large, the day belonged to the Patriots’ defense.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2022
• But by and large, this is not something that is common in this league.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
• The people in the Congress did not by and large run on building the wall and funding it.
  — Fox News, 24 Mar. 2018
• Republicans seemed by and large to support Mr. Kennedy.
  — Sheryl Gay Stolberg, New York Times, 30 Jan. 2025