How to Use by and large in a Sentence

by and large

adverb
  • Wenger, by and large, does not.
    — Michael Cox, New York Times, 15 Jan. 2026
  • And by and large, the depth passed the test.
    — Arpon Basu, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • 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
  • People, by and large, have the opinions of their tribe.
    — Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2025
  • But commenters by and large agree that Jen was the one in the wrong.
    — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • Artists by and large control ticket prices.
    — Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2026
  • But by and large, this is not something that is common in this league.
    — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
  • The problem was that the squirrels were, by and large, well-fed.
    — Ben Naddaff-Hafrey, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Mar. 2025
  • And yet all of this bounty is still, by and large, for the cognoscenti.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Their guys happen to be small, by and large, but these short kings sort of prove the point.
    — Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 12 Oct. 2025
  • What there don’t seem to have been, by and large, were ruling classes.
    — George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
  • Since then nature has, by and large, healed those wounds, Rothrock said.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
  • But by and large, trams remain firmly part of life in the east of the city.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • But a sense of humour is, by and large, a useful thing to have in life.
    — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
  • 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, most people are not going to see any savings.
    — Kyle Cheromcha, The Drive, 1 Apr. 2026
  • But by and large, the Twins’ bullpen has struggled this season.
    — Dan Hayes, New York Times, 1 May 2026
  • But, by and large, Irabién prefers tortillas hot off the comal.
    — Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • The club believes the upside, by and large, was already there.
    — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
  • But by and large the Muslims have not applied the 'eye for an eye' law.
    — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2020
  • Suppose that the numbers showed that by and large, the drivers went to the right edge.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
  • But aside from that, the entire study group followed, by and large, the same advice.
    — Jamie Ducharme, Time, 15 Mar. 2018
  • The answer is that no one can, and by and large, the cast wisely side-steps that minefield.
    — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 1 Aug. 2024
  • The lucky part is that by and large the folks on the ground serving our members have been focused on them.
    — Cassie Cope, charlotteobserver, 15 Feb. 2018
  • The men and women who serve in Congress, by and large, love our country.
    — CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • But, by and large, the players of the era are captured, in addition to the feel.
    — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • But, by and large, AI is designed to do tasks and things that people do.
    — Jared Council, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
  • Making quickbreads is by and large a stir-and-dump proposition.
    — Carolynn Carreño, Los Angeles Times, 23 May 2026
  • The answer, by and large, turns out to be secularism.
    — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 27 Feb. 2026

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