How to Use big business in a Sentence

big business

noun
  • Tourism is big business in the region.
  • The tax proposal will be of most benefit to big business.
  • So that the next time there’s a shot at getting a big business.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 11 July 2022
  • The Left is using big business to censor free speech, the Fox host said.
    Fox News, 26 Apr. 2022
  • That's big business around the Gulf of Mexico, not far from where Hill lives.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 22 Oct. 2022
  • Bridal was and continues to be a big business for the store, with about 70 percent of the bridal styles coming from the in-house brand.
    Roxanne Robinson, Forbes, 24 June 2022
  • That means potentially big business for sportsbooks in the Phoenix area and around the state.
    José M. Romero, The Arizona Republic, 7 Feb. 2023
  • It’s sometime easy to think that an idea has the potential to be the next big business, APP or movement?
    Stephen Gerard, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • Return to menu Railroads have been called the nation’s first big business.
    Lee Powell, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In the big business of cannabis, MedMen is hardly the only one struggling.
    Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • To be sure, the queen is genuinely popular, and the royals have been a big business for decades now.
    Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 9 Sep. 2022
  • That said, Ged is insistent that his mission is to take on big business.
    David Prosser, Forbes, 7 July 2022
  • There’s big business to be done in Botox – and other injectables – and Nicci Levy wants to own a nice-sized chunk of it.
    Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 15 Aug. 2022
  • The odds are stacked against them in a country where warehousing people is big business.
    Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 18 Dec. 2023
  • The hajj, a holy trip to Mecca that Muslims are encouraged to take once in their lives, used to be big business.
    New York Times, 12 July 2022
  • It’s become a big business for him; sparked by an idea that started just over five years ago among Waltrip and some friends.
    Greg Engle, Forbes, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Twenty years on, Kendra Scott is still doing big business.
    Lauren Puckett-Pope, ELLE, 13 Dec. 2022
  • Marijuana has become a big business since the friends came up with their code.
    Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The gift card business out there is a pretty big business in all industries.
    Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Even before these refinements, the scams were big business.
    WIRED, 13 Feb. 2023
  • All of which is to say that iPhone cords are a very big business: There are reportedly about 1.2 billion active iPhones out in the wild.
    Jeff Yang, CNN, 6 Dec. 2022
  • This strikes a blow to casino-style betting, which has become big business on Twitch in the past several years.
    Nathan Grayson, Washington Post, 21 Sep. 2022
  • Republicans have sought to please big business, while Democrats have sought to improve life for the broad public.
    Timothy Noah, The New Republic, 3 May 2022
  • Water on the moon has become a very big business since both U.S. and China plan to send rovers to Luna to sample it firsthand.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 19 Sep. 2023
  • The Way of Water, which was the lone movie to do big business at the year-end box office, will earn anywhere from $40 million to $45 million in its fourth weekend.
    Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2023
  • Clyde Aikau says surfing is sacred place for Hawaiians to go for peace of mind, but the culture has since turned into big business.
    Becky Worley, ABC News, 1 June 2023
  • Aside from transportation and big business, the valley has a number of public spaces and parks.
    Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 10 Mar. 2023
  • Yet three years after those uncertain times, his restaurant, The Huntress — and metro San Diego — are open and doing big business.
    Ash-Har Quraishi, Amy Corral, CBS News, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Phish has made a big business out of releasing live recordings from past concerts.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
  • But German big business did like it too and have been the big beneficiaries.
    Desmond Lachman, National Review, 6 Dec. 2023

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