How to Use big boy in a Sentence

big boy

noun

• The Man now, the guy in big boy pants, in the captain’s chair, calling the shots.
  — Scott Tobias, Vulture, 20 Dec. 2021
• Big thing would be getting used to the big boys out there.
  — Cindy Boren, courant.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Then came the big acts of the two-thousands—Britney Spears, the big boy bands.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 18 Apr. 2021
• All of the big boys are slugging it out over the smart speaker.
  — Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2017
• 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
• Just make sure your friend or loved one has enough space for this big boy.
  — Kevin Cortez, Popular Mechanics, 11 Nov. 2022
• Get a little thud, hear the big boys yell a little bit.
  — Carter Karels, San Antonio Express-News, 21 Mar. 2018
• My three little girls and my three big boys—no way, no how.
  — Stephen A. Crockett Jr., The Root, 14 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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 key to Saturday’s Auburn-Oregon game lies with the big boys in the trenches.
  — oregonlive, 29 Aug. 2019
• That’s why Calais Campbell and those big boys that came over there – clean that stuff up, man.
  — Mark Inabinett | [e-mail], al, 31 May 2020
• Faron II is a big boy — 80 pounds at 18 months — his coat smooth and shiny and black, his eyes brown and soulful.
  — Kate Santich, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• 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
• Handling is quite good for a big boy like this, as was braking.
  — Josh Max, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• 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
• The big fine is agreed upon behind closed doors by the big boy network.
  — Susan Dunne, courant.com, 26 June 2018
• 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
• 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 album proved that the band wasn't just a bunch of hacks from Cleveland who'd moved to New York to compete with the big boys, Chrome said.
  — Chuck Yarborough, cleveland.com, 30 Oct. 2017
• Looking to hitch your wagon to a Cinderella that plays like one of the big boys?
  — Eric Single, SI.com, 31 May 2018
• 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 Reds have burned their village to save it, a common practice in Baseball, even among the big boys.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 27 Feb. 2018
• The black plates, at $5.99, include the Sushi Pro roll, Tokyo roll, sunrise roll, sunset roll, big boy roll and the rock ‘n’ roll.
  — Stefene Russell, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Aug. 2022
• Guerin’s first drive seemed to indicate that the Golden Eagles could hang with the big boys.
  — Jack Carney, Indianapolis Star, 22 Sep. 2017
• But if these games proved the Phillies can hang with the big boys, the outcomes indicated they still must learn to win.
  — Scott Lauber, Philly.com, 7 June 2018
• 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
• But this winter Rouge has waved bye-bye to D-2 and is now playing with the big boys in Division 1.
  — Mick McCabe, Detroit Free Press, 2 Feb. 2020
• But like the others, prove it against a big boy to confirm the hypothesis.
  — Michael Casagrande | [e-mail], al, 3 Sep. 2023
• Hubby needs to put on his big boy pants and let his family know the treatment of his spouse is unacceptable.
  — Meghan Leahy, Washington Post, 19 July 2023

Last Updated: 7 Oct 2024