big guns
Example Sentences
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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
"It was far from just Andrew Tate. It was not those big guns of the manosphere," he says.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 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
Even Lewis and Clark with their big guns were astounded and unsettled by the ability of the grizzly to absorb volleys of lead with barely a wobble.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
