How to Use by and large in a Sentence

by and large

adverb

• But, by and large, drinkers simply adapted to the change.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
• But, by and large, the players of the era are captured, in addition to the feel.
  — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2022
• The club believes the upside, by and large, was already there.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• But by and large, Watt hadn’t yet figured out how to work with his idol.
  — Brad Sanders, SPIN, 13 Mar. 2023
• But, by and large, Irabién prefers tortillas hot off the comal.
  — Washington Post, 15 June 2022
• Alaskans and Americans are, by and large, very middle-of-the-road.
  — Antonia Hitchens, The New Yorker, 1 Sep. 2022
• But by and large, the day belonged to the Patriots’ defense.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland, 16 Aug. 2022
• But by and large, this is not something that is common in this league.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Feb. 2023
• Well, by and large, he's stayed in the low 20s in the polls, and at times that's been as many as 30 points behind Donald Trump.
  — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 7 July 2023
• Sofia: But by and large, the actual body of the aluminum can is pretty easy to process.
  — Quartz Staff, Quartz, 16 May 2023
• Those who cook have had to pick a side, and the restaurant business has, by and large, sided with gas.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• And Western countries, by and large, did not want to have that onshore.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 7 Dec. 2023
• The upshot: the Brits, by and large, aren't buying Bailey's call for pay restraint.
  — Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 18 Feb. 2022
• It’s a group of misfits that by and large have always felt like outsiders.
  — Laura Latzko, The Arizona Republic, 1 July 2022
• So, by and large, there’s just much more written about white players.
  — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Sep. 2022
• This is not, by and large, debt that parents assumed to send their kids to college.
  — Jon Marcus, USA TODAY, 2 Sep. 2023
• That said, by and large, travel to both Cancún and Los Cabos is safe.
  — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 5 Mar. 2023
• Yet Two and Twenty by and large has nothing to say on layoffs.
  — Jon Skolnik, The New Republic, 22 Sep. 2022
• But by and large, property values have increased over the last year and a half.
  — Matthew Glowicki, The Courier-Journal, 20 Apr. 2023
• So Republicans, by and large, seem happy to have the issue come to the fore again.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Sep. 2022
• The Ukrainian president keeps calling for more and more weapons, and the West, by and large, keeps obliging.
  — Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2023
• The families that were coming to our house for dinner by and large were workers at the plant.
  — Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 14 July 2022
• But by and large, most companies have so far stayed mum on this question.
  — Will Gottsegen, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2022
• But, the seven games served up lessons that, by and large, weren’t very complicated.
  — Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Jan. 2024
• Meal deals can be found for as little as $15, with dinners by and large capped at $65 per person.
  — Stephanie Breijo, Los Angeles Times, 23 Mar. 2022
• But by and large, the ancient topography is still there.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Apr. 2022
• One caveat to that is the fact that BTS’ fans tend to by and large follow the rules and are a rather exemplary fandom, as far as these things go.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 22 Mar. 2022
• Why put forth all this effort into something that the public will by and large not care about?
  — Mike Postalakis, SPIN, 3 Aug. 2022
• But by and large, this is a portrait of men and women who are fighting based on what’s right and wrong, not what’s profitable.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 23 Feb. 2023
• But he has been met, by and large, with an outpouring of goodwill, from colleagues and the public alike.
  — Molly Ball, Time, 20 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024