big guns

Example Sentences

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Arsenal needed their big guns to come off the bench to secure a win over a battling Mansfield Town side in the FA Cup fifth round, but it was two 16-year-olds who made history.

From BBC • Mar. 7, 2026

“If the government decides to use big guns and bring back the battleships, I’m not getting involved.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 30, 2025

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

There were big guns too that passed in the day drawn by tractors, the long barrels of the guns covered with green branches and green leafy branches and vines laid over the tractors.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway