How to Use by and large in a Sentence

by and large

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• The country, by and large, doesn’t want what Trump has wrought.
  — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2020
• But by and large, the candidates’ emphasis has been elsewhere.
  — Gloria Dickie, Scientific American, 29 Jan. 2020
• First of all, the broadcast networks are, by and large, not carrying these briefings live.
  — Jeremy Barr, The Hollywood Reporter, 9 Apr. 2020
• There are still a couple nods to the past for us traditional-minded hunters, but by and large, the latest optics look toward the future.
  — Richard Mann, Field & Stream, 22 Jan. 2020
• Note that except, by and large, in the case of mussels, fish and seafood counters readily sell by the piece, another plus for anyone cooking for one.
  — Bill St. John, The Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2020
• Polling released by Pew at the end of last week finds a majority of the country is, by and large, ready for Trump 2.0.
  — Philip Elliott, TIME, 26 Nov. 2024
• But by and large, his art has treated the mere presence of a black sitter as a sufficient corrective to the oversights of European art.
  — Jason Farago, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2020
• Americans by and large have willingly obeyed the government’s shelter-in-place and social-distancing orders, but that doesn’t seem to be enough for some public officials.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 13 Apr. 2020
• Industry-watchers by and large thought Amazon would win out and were surprised when Microsoft emerged the victor in October.
  — Kate Cox, Ars Technica, 13 Mar. 2020
• Companies by and large were surveyed about their employee head count before the virus became an escalating U.S. concern.
  — Sarah Chaney, WSJ, 6 Mar. 2020
• But by and large, my research came up short in finding city campaigns built from the ground up to recruit full-time employees who work somewhere other than a formal office—and who could pump serious cash into an open-arms economy.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 3 Feb. 2020
• The best of them are, by and large, short-range repeaters.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 18 Dec. 2020
• But by and large, the way people watched TV hadn’t changed since the 1950s.
  — Proma Khosla, IndieWire, 17 Sep. 2024
• Fans by and large want to see lots of offense and lots of points.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
• 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
• Suppose that the numbers showed that by and large, the drivers went to the right edge.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2021
• But by and large the Muslims have not applied the 'eye for an eye' law.
  — NBC News, 1 Nov. 2020
• But the center, by and large, still had a leading role.
  — USA Today, 22 Apr. 2021
• The club believes the upside, by and large, was already there.
  — Nick Piecoro, The Arizona Republic, 14 Feb. 2023
• But a sense of humour is, by and large, a useful thing to have in life.
  — The Economist, 3 Oct. 2020
• The piped in fake crowd noise was, by and large, annoying.
  — Ann Killion, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Mar. 2021
• 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, the women on these teams seem to agree: Simone Biles did the right thing.
  — Sarah Spelling, Vogue, 28 July 2021
• 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
• Since then nature has, by and large, healed those wounds, Rothrock said.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 13 Nov. 2024
• 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
• But, by and large, AI is designed to do tasks and things that people do.
  — Jared Council, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2021

Last Updated: 7 Jan 2025