How to Use by and large in a Sentence

by and large

adverb

• The best of them are, by and large, short-range repeaters.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 18 Dec. 2020
• But by and large, the way people watched TV hadn’t changed since the 1950s.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• Fans by and large want to see lots of offense and lots of points.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• But, by and large, drinkers simply adapted to the change.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• But, by and large, the players of the era are captured, in addition to the feel.
  — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2022
• Suppose that the numbers showed that by and large, the drivers went to the right edge.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• But by and large the Muslims have not applied the 'eye for an eye' law.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2020
• But the center, by and large, still had a leading role.
  — USA Today, 22 Apr. 2021
• The club believes the upside, by and large, was already there.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• But a sense of humour is, by and large, a useful thing to have in life.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
• The piped in fake crowd noise was, by and large, annoying.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2021
• 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, the women on these teams seem to agree: Simone Biles did the right thing.
  — Sarah Spelling, Vogue, 28 July 2021
• But, by and large, Irabién prefers tortillas hot off the comal.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• Alaskans and Americans are, by and large, very middle-of-the-road.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
• Since then nature has, by and large, healed those wounds, Rothrock said.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
• But by and large, the day belonged to the Patriots’ defense.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2022
• But by and large, this is not something that is common in this league.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
• But, by and large, AI is designed to do tasks and things that people do.
  — Jared Council, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021
• Well, by and large, he's stayed in the low 20s in the polls, and at times that's been as many as 30 points behind Donald Trump.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• 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
• What there don’t seem to have been, by and large, were ruling classes.
  — George Scialabba, The New Republic, 1 Nov. 2021
• Sofia: But by and large, the actual body of the aluminum can is pretty easy to process.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
• So far, the vaccines have held the line, by and large, against the onrushing swarm of variants.
  — Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 8 July 2021
• Know that, by and large, hikers are some of the friendliest people out there.
  — Julia Sullivan, SELF, 12 Aug. 2024
• Those who cook have had to pick a side, and the restaurant business has, by and large, sided with gas.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• Which is to say that escape rooms have, by and large, escaped the room itself.
  — Alexis Soloski, New York Times, 5 Nov. 2020
• Journalists, by and large, would prefer to host the chat shows.
  — Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review, 4 Feb. 2022
• In his mother’s eyes, the writer is, by and large, an anomaly.
  — Weike Wang, The New Yorker, 11 July 2024
• Our industry, by and large, is going through a change — not just the doc space, but the narrative space as well.
  — Matthew Carey, Deadline, 14 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 20 Dec 2024