How to Use the big question in a Sentence

the big question

noun

• That's the big question, the one the world throws at you every morning.
  — Madoline Markham, Country Living, 30 Aug. 2023
• This is the big question—and one that doesn’t have a clear-cut answer.
  — Brian Underwood, Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• Of course, the big question to be learned on this trip is who is the best surfer on the football team and who is the best golfer?
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 23 July 2023
• Well, this is the big question that's looming over this race.
  — ABC News, 19 Mar. 2023
• That was the big question running through my head: Why?
  — Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 26 Oct. 2023
• And the big question, Jon, is, who’s at the table on the Republican side?
  — ABC News, 17 Dec. 2023
• That's the big question after that stunning new Iowa poll overnight.
  — NBC News, 3 Nov. 2024
• The obvious place to start is the big question: Which movies were straight up the most popular?
  — Joe Reid, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2023
• Getting ready to pop the big question, but feeling a bit lost about how to propose?
  — Boutayna Chokrane, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023
• That’s the big question, and one the Supreme Court may eventually need to answer.
  — David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times, 8 Jan. 2024
• That’s the big question: Will he be used smartly and properly?
  — Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 29 July 2024
• But here’s the big question: How long can Green give Golden State this version of himself?
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 3 Apr. 2024
• Holding a Wild Card spot at the moment, the big question will be how much the Twins want to push to supplement this roster.
  — Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 19 July 2024
• However, the big question was when all that moisture was present.
  — Katherine Kornei, Discover Magazine, 14 Nov. 2023
• And while the big question of how Damien came into the world was answered, so many other questions popped up for me as an Omen fan.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024
• Outside of performance, the big question facing the RTX 4070 is cost.
  — Michael Kan, PCMAG, 20 Mar. 2023
• Now the big question: In the past, has sleeping in or getting up on time produced more preferable results for me?
  — Lucy Liu, WIRED, 1 Mar. 2023
• Whether or not there are enough of those people here in Iowa is the big question for the Florida governor.
  — CBS News, 14 Jan. 2024
• But whether the rules generate new fans who might be more drawn to watching a shorter sporting event is the big question.
  — Anna Brand, CNN, 30 Mar. 2023
• As expected, the big question was: do any of these couples get engaged?
  — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 30 Aug. 2023
• But the big question is, was there something substantive?
  — Eliana Dockterman, TIME, 11 June 2024
• That’s the big question that Microsoft needs to answer on Thursday.
  — Tom Warren, The Verge, 12 Feb. 2024
• That is the big question surrounding Rhett Lashlee’s team, which does not have a win against a team that is currently ranked.
  — Tom Layberger, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024
• That’s the big question mark for a potential second season.
  — Carly Thomas, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Feb. 2023
• When rates fall, the big question becomes, how does that impact everything else in the economy?
  — Gregory Clifford, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
• As the haggling restarts behind closed doors, the big question is what the industry will look like when the studio productions are up and running again.
  — Ryan Faughnder, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2023
• Which begs the big question — is the unusual dryness right now related to climate change?
  — Jan Ellen Spiegel, Hartford Courant, 27 Nov. 2024
• Which brings us to the big question — one that needed to be answered in the final 20 games but might become a forever mystery: Is this a team worth the cost of running back?
  — Dieter Kurtenbach, The Mercury News, 8 Mar. 2024
• This takes us to the big question: How many people can actually make it as an influencer?
  — Yec, Forbes, 22 Feb. 2023
• Now, aside from their relationship status, the big question is, who wore it better?
  — Carolyn Twersky, Seventeen, 7 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Mar 2025