How to Use big bang in a Sentence

big bang

noun
  • Learn more › Dove hunting kicks fall seasons off with a big bang.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
  • That moment in the subway provided the big bang of this book.
    — Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
  • What happened after the big bang to make galaxies and stars and black holes?
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 July 2022
  • No one was injured by the explosions, but the big bangs spread fear through the region.
    — oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2019
  • The small calorie investment per yolk will provide a big bang for your buck and keep you fuller longer.
    — Stefani Sassos, M.s., R.d.n., C.s.o., C.d.n., Good Housekeeping, 6 Dec. 2022
  • The faster the rate of expansion, the shorter the time between that big bang and today.
    — Marc Kamionkowski, Scientific American, 15 Oct. 2024
  • The first stars appeared to have arisen a mere 180 million years after the big bang.
    — Marcia Bartusiak, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
  • These are vendors that can focus on incremental change, too, and not some big bang-like event.
    — Sarvarth Misra, Forbes, 27 May 2021
  • This isn’t about big bangs or Infinity Stones (at first).
    — Ken Makin, Christian Science Monitor, 25 July 2025
  • With their strong spreading habit, Wave petunias fill flower beds and provide a big bang for your buck.
    — Southern Living, 4 June 2021
  • Kaley Cuoco is beginning her life as a mother with a big bang.
    — Brendan Morrow, The Week, 9 Jan. 2023
  • What was conceived as a plan to Marvel-ize the franchise did not translate into a big bang.
    — Max Goldbart, Deadline, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Research is all about the biggest bang, but the imperative for products is bang-for-the-buck.
    — Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
  • One idea still in the running is that the missing matter is made of primordial black holes that formed soon after the big bang.
    — Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Here are the top picks of fitness professionals for equipment that will give you the biggest bang for (not very much) buck.
    — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2018
  • Some of the light captured from these even more distant galaxies was emitted less than a billion years after the big bang.
    — Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
  • The first stars and galaxies formed something like 300 million years after the big bang.
    — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
  • But as Davies explains, there has always still been that nagging question of what happened before the big bang?
    — Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
  • Powerball's top prize winner has the chance to start the New Year off with a big bang worth about half a billion dollars.
    — NBC News, 1 Jan. 2022
  • The finding tipped the balance firmly in favor of the big bang picture of cosmology.
    — Martin Rees, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
  • Light elements like hydrogen and helium formed during the big bang, and those up to iron are made by fusion in the cores of stars.
    — Daniel Clery, Science | AAAS, 23 Oct. 2019
  • In the fourteen billion years between the big bang and the autumn of 1957, space was pristine.
    — Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
  • To be sure, Bitcoin has been a dinner-table mainstay since its big bang in 2017.
    — Vildana Hajric, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2021
  • The bad news, of course, is that the economy has been trickling along for literally hundreds of years, absent a few big bangs.
    — Jane Thier, Fortune, 14 Nov. 2023
  • The instrument will allow astronomers to peer back through the eons, to see what the universe used to look like just a few billion years after the big bang.
    — Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2021
  • To get the biggest bang for their buck, some advertisers leak teasers, or even the full ads, before the big game to start generating buzz.
    — Aimee Picchi, CBS News, 2 Feb. 2020
  • But Nolan’s reshuffling of the story’s chronology seems more born of a showman’s instinct to save his big bang for a climax.
    — WIRED, 24 July 2023
  • The big bang over Veterans Park won't happen this weekend, but there'll be no shortage of fireworks.
    — Chris Foran, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 1 July 2021
  • Urban delivered a two-hour, 45-minute set spanning 34 songs, determined to go out at his hometown arena with a big bang.
    — Bryan West, USA Today, 18 Oct. 2025
  • And then, of course, the big bang of democratic expansion after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union.
    — Eric Johnson, Vox, 7 Aug. 2019

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