How to Use the big time in a Sentence

the big time

noun phrase
  • Gal and Don want in on the big time and that door opens via Teddy.
    Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
  • But now, the Studio City prep school is joining the big time.
    Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
  • Utah needed just one play to show Moore how cruel life can be in the big time.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
  • But now the new Chargers head coach wants another shot at the big time.
    Ben Morse, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
  • Addy and Red’s crimes, on the other hand, really hit the big time.
    Vulture, 31 Mar. 2023
  • This is bar food that has made a successful transition to the big time.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
  • Much of the action will occur overnight in the United States due to the big time difference with the host countries.
    Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2023
  • This former small-town girl has hit the big time, and is ready to prove that she's got the ssssoft and ssssupple star power to take her all the way to the Drag Race Hall of Fame.
    Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Retinal, on the other hand, needs one conversion before hitting the big time.
    Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2023
  • What if, when Orange County needed her most, Porter had run for reelection instead of leaving us for the big time?
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
  • Thanks to everyone who responded to yesterday's question! Didn't hit the big time?
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Both have impressed for Argentine Giants River Plate at underage level and are making their way to the big time.
    Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
  • Most important, the DeSantis speech is another reminder that Bitcoin and crypto have hit the big time.
    Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 May 2023
  • Possible drawback: Success at the mid-major level is never a guarantee of winning in the big time.
    Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
  • The wrestlers, meanwhile, dream of breakthroughs despite the long odds against reaching the big time, enduring the physical punishment and occasional indignities that go with the gig.
    Brian Lowry, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
  • Read full article Eubanks indeed hit the big time at Wimbledon, the grandest tennis stage of them all, a delightful story that is equal measures remarkable and improbable.
    Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023

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