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
Rachel Brown-Finnis: They still have some big guns, but will be too inconsistent to win the league.
From BBC ● Aug. 20, 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
And people repeated, “It’s those damned big guns they’re shooting off in France-—spoiling the weather in the whole world.”
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
