How to Use big boy in a Sentence

big boy

noun
  • Suck on some of these, big boy.
    — William Earl, Variety, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Suck on some of these, big boy.
    — Jack Dunn, Variety, 2 Nov. 2025
  • Just make sure your friend or loved one has enough space for this big boy.
    — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
  • All of the big boys are slugging it out over the smart speaker.
    — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Handling is quite good for a big boy like this, as was braking.
    — Josh Max, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Only little boys are called big boys.
    — Arkansas Online, 15 Jan. 2026
  • One of those big boys dropped off a wolf's head at my feet and looked up at me, then walked off.
    — Benedict Cosgrove, Newsweek, 20 Dec. 2024
  • But in the cosmic scheme of things, not quite enough traction to hang with the big boys.
    — Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 May 2018
  • One of the bigger boys tries to mount but gets stuck with one leg over a pinto’s rear.
    — Jennifer Percy, Harper's magazine, 20 Jan. 2020
  • The big fine is agreed upon behind closed doors by the big boy network.
    — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 June 2018
  • Some have said that Democrats need to put on their big boy pants and move on from this defeat.
    — Sunny Sea Gold, Scientific American, 22 Nov. 2016
  • The Man now, the guy in big boy pants, in the captain’s chair, calling the shots.
    — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
  • A lot of hop bitterness smacks you on the finish of this big boy, which has a faint whiskey taste.
    — Marc Bona, cleveland, 6 Feb. 2022
  • None of our guys probably, other than Kawhi, are in that big boy club.
    — Marc Stein, New York Times, 13 June 2019
  • Our Prince of Wales is feeling the jet lag so his big boy is there instead!
    — Jack Royston, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2025
  • Then a member of the biggest boy band in the world went ahead and hopped on yet another remix.
    — Jasmine Gomez, Seventeen, 25 July 2019
  • The engines on those big boys were running while the mayor was inside, for about two hours.
    — Jim Dwyer, New York Times, 11 Jan. 2018
  • That’s why Calais Campbell and those big boys that came over there – clean that stuff up, man.
    — Mark Inabinett | [email protected], al, 31 May 2020
  • Then came the big acts of the two-thousands—Britney Spears, the big boy bands.
    — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2021
  • Based on its size, this big boy was near the end of its lifespan and the winter weather was taking its toll.
    — Stan Tekiela, Twin Cities, 6 Feb. 2025
  • The big boys are grown up now, in their twenties and thirties, living their own lives in the States.
    — Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 24 Mar. 2020
  • Looking to hitch your wagon to a Cinderella that plays like one of the big boys?
    — Eric Single, SI.com, 31 May 2018
  • But like the others, prove it against a big boy to confirm the hypothesis.
    — Michael Casagrande | [email protected], al, 3 Sep. 2023
  • This big boy showed up to the Brooks River in July and hasn’t left.
    — Jessica Campbell-Salley, Outside, 23 Sep. 2025
  • The work the big boys did to dominate most parts of this game certainly helped the backs to exploit the space.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 Oct. 2019
  • But taking on one of Wall Street’s big boys, and then getting squashed for it, ranks right up there.
    — Liz Peek, Washington Post, 4 May 2026
  • That could be bad news for clubs like the Dynamo that over the last decade have shown less willingness to spend with the big boys.
    — Corey Roepken, Houston Chronicle, 13 Dec. 2017
  • The Retrievers had improved and turned into a team that could compete with the big boys.
    — Jerry Brewer, chicagotribune.com, 19 Mar. 2018
  • Then the Bruins big boys decided to make a statement after that.
    — Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 30 Mar. 2026
  • Guerin’s first drive seemed to indicate that the Golden Eagles could hang with the big boys.
    — Jack Carney, Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2017

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