big guns
Example Sentences
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“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
South Africa were still packed with big guns and we had just won the Ashes the previous summer.
From BBC • Dec. 23, 2024
It was so much closer to us that the firing of its big guns outlined the whole ship.
From "Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two" by Joseph Bruchac
