big guns
Example Sentences
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So they decided they decided to bring in the big guns.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
In the first decade of the 20th century, two brilliant English civilians, Arthur Pollen and Harold Isherwood, invented the world’s first modern gunnery computer to aim the big guns of battleships.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 10, 2026
Both sides wheeled out big guns, with former president Barack Obama rallying support for Spanberger and Sherrill.
From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025
The big guns come out late in any Academy Awards broadcast — and the 77th Oscars, held on Feb. 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles — was no different.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 22, 2025
I asked Sarge if our escorts in the jeeps felt as odd as we did about being propped up there with those big guns mounted in front of them just to take us to school.
From "Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High" by Melba Pattillo Beals
