How to Use the big guns in a Sentence

the big guns

plural noun
  • And then there are the big guns.
    — Jada Yuan, Vulture, 14 Mar. 2026
  • That puts more pressure on the big guns to produce.
    — Dom Luszczyszyn, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
  • The home of The Godfather might have brought out the big guns.
    — Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 26 Feb. 2026
  • Alphabet probably has more ways to win than any of the big guns in this market.
    — Kevin Stankiewicz,alexa Lomonaco, CNBC, 16 Apr. 2026
  • With revenge on his mind, Egan is pulling out the big guns, and bodies are dropping everywhere.
    — Taylor Ardrey, USA Today, 8 Jan. 2026
  • Its staff spent years painstakingly cleaning the big guns and coating them in paint and wax to prevent rusting and corrosion.
    — CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • The Celestron Firstscope is perfect for just seeing what's out there, and bringing out the big guns if need be.
    — Chris McMullen, Space.com, 28 Mar. 2026
  • Sending Washington wasn’t exactly sending the big guns.
    — Daniel Immerwahr, New Yorker, 4 May 2026
  • While Nvidia has several types of GPUs deployed, the big guns found in data centers are the H100 and H200.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 16 Sep. 2024
  • New additions Dadonov and Brown offer some optimism, but New Jersey could really use a surprise showing from rookie Gritsyuk and a rebound to 50-point form from Mercer to give the big guns more help.
    — James Mirtle, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2025
  • Chief among the latter is his region’s unnamed UNO (Upazila Nirbahi Officer), a wily mid-level bureaucrat who presents herself as Jahir’s direct line to the big guns, and persistently pulls rank on him with a disarming megawatt smile.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 9 Feb. 2026
  • The streamer pulled in all of the big guns with top talent on stage including Millie Bobby Brown, Florence Pugh and The Hunting Wives’ Brittany Snow and Malin Akerman.
    — Peter White, Deadline, 13 May 2026
  • Workers carefully hoisted the big guns one-by-one from the back of a truck and wheeled them inside their new home at the Savannah History Museum, which will put them on display just in time for the Fourth of July celebration of America's 250th birthday.
    — CBS News, 4 June 2026
  • Boise State rolled out the big guns early Friday morning at the Idaho Legislature, testifying at a hearing on a Senate Joint Memorial asking Congress to take action to provide clarity and consistency in college athletics regarding Name, Image and Likeness and revenue sharing.
    — Shaun Goodwin, Idaho Statesman, 6 Mar. 2026

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