How to Use the big question in a Sentence

the big question

noun

• That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning.
  — Madoline Markham, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
• This is the big question—and one that doesn’t have a clear-cut answer.
  — Brian Underwood, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• Of course, the big question to be learned on this trip is who is the best surfer on the football team and who is the best golfer?
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• Well, this is the big question that's looming over this race.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• That was the big question running through my head: Why?
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2023
• And the big question, Jon, is, who’s at the table on the Republican side?
  — ABC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• The obvious place to start is the big question: Which movies were straight up the most popular?
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2023
• Getting ready to pop the big question, but feeling a bit lost about how to propose?
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
• That’s the big question, and one the Supreme Court may eventually need to answer.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• However, the big question was when all that moisture was present.
  — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• And while the big question of how Damien came into the world was answered, so many other questions popped up for me as an Omen fan.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
• Outside of performance, the big question facing the RTX 4070 is cost.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2023
• Now the big question: In the past, has sleeping in or getting up on time produced more preferable results for me?
  — Lucy Liu, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
• Whether or not there are enough of those people here in Iowa is the big question for the Florida governor.
  — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• But whether the rules generate new fans who might be more drawn to watching a shorter sporting event is the big question.
  — Anna Brand, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• As expected, the big question was: do any of these couples get engaged?
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• That’s the big question that Microsoft needs to answer on Thursday.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 12 Feb. 2024
• That’s the big question mark for a potential second season.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• As the haggling restarts behind closed doors, the big question is what the industry will look like when the studio productions are up and running again.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Which brings us to the big question — one that needed to be answered in the final 20 games but might become a forever mystery: Is this a team worth the cost of running back?
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• This takes us to the big question: How many people can actually make it as an influencer?
  — Yec, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Now, aside from their relationship status, the big question is, who wore it better?
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 7 Mar. 2023
• Which raises the big question: Will Givens and Crowder have another showdown?
  — Greg Braxton, Los Angeles Times, 30 Aug. 2023
• That’s the big question after Bateman endured a year of physical and emotional swings.
  — Childs Walker, Baltimore Sun, 4 Sep. 2023
• But in the end, the big question is whether there is any scientific evidence that rectal ozone therapy will do any of the aforementioned claims.
  — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 15 Mar. 2023
• The system is fumbling in search of an answer to the big question: Can Xi’s China still manage the pairing of autocracy and capitalism?
  — Evan Osnos, The New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2023
• That’s the big question coming to play as the world has watched start-up-focused Silicon Valley Bank’s fall causing a ripple effect for other regional banks.
  — Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 14 Mar. 2023
• As posited in the Discover story, the big question is if the time travel component of the tachyon is simply an unproven one or an impossible one.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 21 Feb. 2023
• Now the big question is whether all the regulators pulling on the buckles and loops of Boeing’s straitjacket, with a potential yank from Justice to come, will seriously delay what looked like the start of strong comeback.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 4 Mar. 2024
• Josh Duhamel relied on the tide (and a little help from the hotel concierge) to deliver his proposal to now-wife Audra Mari, planning a sunset beach stroll at the same time as a message in a bottle containing the big question washed ashore.
  — Zoey Lyttle, Peoplemag, 20 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 20 Aug 2024