How to Use big picture in a Sentence

big picture

noun
  • Financial clients need advisors who can see the big picture.
    Andre Pennington, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2024
  • This study helps add to the big picture of how animals have evolved and adapted to their surroundings over time.
    Sara Harrison, Wired, 29 Oct. 2020
  • In the big picture, the amount of wind and solar deployed this year will need to be replicated in coming years.
    Benjamin Storrow, Scientific American, 8 Oct. 2020
  • Turn your focus to solving the big picture and feeling a sense of accomplishment.
    Kristen Rogers, CNN, 3 Nov. 2020
  • But in the big picture, sharing the workload has been good for Conner, who notched his third-straight game with a touchdown.
    Phil Thompson, chicagotribune.com, 14 Oct. 2020
  • But everything can’t always be about the big picture with Miami.
    Dave Hyde, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Oct. 2020
  • But her mantra inspires her to step away from the big picture—a major to-do list, for example, or a hardcore workout—and look at a task bit by bit.
    Taylyn Washington-Harmon, Health.com, 19 Oct. 2020
  • The big picture is Stefanski and his coaching staff don’t have the emotional swings as found in some past seasons.
    Terry Pluto, cleveland, 24 Oct. 2020
  • But take a deep breath, zoom out from your Twitter and Facebook feeds or your TV screen, and look at the big picture.
    Jonah Goldberg Tribune News Service (tns), Star Tribune, 30 Oct. 2020
  • Judge Barrett managed to keep the focus on what mattered—record, philosophy, the big picture.
    Kimberley A. Strassel, WSJ, 15 Oct. 2020
  • The big picture: America is in the middle of a pandemic, and Covid-19 cases are rising again.
    Julia Horowitz, CNN, 4 Nov. 2020
  • And on Tuesday, Nagy acknowledged the challenge in still seeing the big picture while assessing the offense’s week-to-week results.
    Dan Wiederer, chicagotribune.com, 7 Oct. 2020
  • Correa’s blast was monumental, but from an offensive standpoint, the Astros’ big picture remains badly out of focus.
    Bruce Jenkins, SFChronicle.com, 4 Oct. 2020
  • Naturally, picking only 50 fossils to represent the big picture of dinosaur science required great care.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 29 Oct. 2024
  • To Crouch, who always saw the big picture, jazz was just the veneer for what the attacks were really about: the enormous impact of Black culture on American life.
    Howard Reich, chicagotribune.com, 28 Sep. 2020
  • Books The back-and-forth over ‘The Blind Side’ misses the big picture.
    Julia M. Klein, Los Angeles Times, 3 Oct. 2023
  • And 1,500 years ago is not that long ago in the big picture.
    Elizabeth Nicholas, Vogue, 15 June 2022
  • The best way to do that is to look at the big picture and not sweat the small stuff.
    Annie Lane, oregonlive, 18 Jan. 2023
  • The key, at least for me, was to ignore the big picture.
    Sara Dykman, Smithsonian Magazine, 14 Apr. 2021
  • Step back and look at the big picture when you get caught in the small stuff.
    Bryan Robinson, Forbes, 14 Sep. 2024
  • Make an effort to step back and take in the big picture!
    Chicago Tribune, 6 Jan. 2023
  • On top of that, what the big picture looks like, so we don’t get caught up in the small things.
    Gary Washburn, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Apr. 2022
  • In the big picture, what the Cavs need is lottery night luck.
    Matt Eppers, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Looking at the big picture, that might be a smart move.
    Telis Demos, WSJ, 7 Feb. 2022
  • Dear Wanting: The best way to move ahead is to take a step back -- and look at the big picture.
    cleveland, 6 Feb. 2022
  • Sarkisian tried to shift the breakdowns to the big picture.
    Chuck Carlton, Dallas News, 12 Sep. 2021
  • That way, only Leigh (and his crew) can see the big picture.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 31 May 2022
  • The big picture is to help users to save in dollars but spend in the Sudanese pound.
    Alexander Onukwue, Quartz, 11 Mar. 2022
  • Artists try to apprehend the big picture quickly and, at the same time, get to the heart of it.
    Peggy Noonan, WSJ, 3 Nov. 2022
  • In this case, the person who wrote the story failed to look at the big picture – or in this case the graph.
    Roger Valdez, Forbes, 3 May 2022

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