How to Use by and large in a Sentence

by and large

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• The best of them are, by and large, short-range repeaters.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 18 Dec. 2020
• People reclaimed the pavement and are, by and large, unwilling to give it back.
  — Matthew Haag, New York Times, 17 Dec. 2020
• And, by and large, that works well when Wilson has enough protection to bounce around in the pocket.
  — Lorenzo Reyes, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2020
• The pay was high, the shows were popular, and the writing staffs were, by and large, of very high quality.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2024
• Those groups, by and large, are much less at risk for really serious consequences.
  — Jeb Lund, The New Republic, 29 Dec. 2020
• That’s mostly because the platforms, by and large, don’t share any of the relevant data.
  — Gilad Edelman, Wired, 27 Dec. 2020
• But by and large, the rectangular phone will stay familiar, safe, and maybe a little boring.
  — Julian Chokkattu, Wired, 13 Jan. 2021
• All the data suggest that, by and large, kids brought up in religious households stay religious and kids who aren’t, don’t.
  — Cameron Hilditch, National Review, 13 Dec. 2020
• Everybody came to not just an appreciation but, by and large, a reverence for the play.
  — Globe Staff, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2021
• But by and large, other studios haven’t followed Warnermedia’s lead.
  — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 Jan. 2021
• But what if that interpretation of Cathy is, by and large, one that’s worth re-interrogating?
  — Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 5 Jan. 2021
• Republicans, by and large, stopped to talk outside the Austin Club or agreed to speak over the phone about their thoughts on fundraising and safety.
  — Lauren McGaughy, Dallas News, 15 Dec. 2020
• Right now, the primary reason the world emits so much greenhouse gas is that fossil- fuel technologies are by and large the cheapest energy sources available.
  — Bill Gates, Time, 22 Jan. 2021
• While Illinois is by and large classified as a blue state, that's mostly due to Chicago Democrats; the rest of the state is largely red.
  — Ella Lee, USA TODAY, 29 Dec. 2020
• Those users can still, by and large, use TikTok the way anyone else can, but the app is doing more to shield those users and their videos from the community at large.
  — Jacob Kastrenakes, The Verge, 13 Jan. 2021
• But by and large, they’re mostly introduced as a series of one-note obstacles whose defeat brings Deku one step closer to Dark Might.
  — David Opie, IndieWire, 7 Oct. 2024
• Museums, by and large, were about conquest; conquest was about reductive notions of us and them, a knot these institutions have been trying to unwind for a generation.
  — Murray Whyte, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Jan. 2021
• What our polling results also revealed is that most business leaders, across parties, are by and large horrified by Trump’s leadership model and his incendiary rhetoric.
  — Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, TIME, 27 Sep. 2024
• Though that variant appears to partially escape antibodies built up against Covid-19, experts said that vaccines, by and large, should still be effective.
  — New York Times, 29 Jan. 2021
• 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 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
• 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

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024