How to Use the big time in a Sentence

the big time

noun phrase

• From there, the trio made the jump from small clubs to the big time.
  — John Morrison, SPIN, 9 May 2024
• Howard knows Star Wars, and deserves a shot at the big time.
  — Paul Tassi, Forbes, 3 Jan. 2025
• Gal and Don want in on the big time and that door opens via Teddy.
  — Randy Myers, The Mercury News, 24 Jan. 2024
• Crusoe’s shot at the big time came in the first quarter of 2024.
  — Christopher Helman, Forbes.com, 10 Apr. 2025
• In 2000, a man named Mark Sinclair was on the verge of hitting the big time.
  — Richard Edwards, Space.com, 2 Apr. 2025
• But now, the Studio City prep school is joining the big time.
  — Luca Evans, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2023
• Utah needed just one play to show Moore how cruel life can be in the big time.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 23 Sep. 2023
• But now the new Chargers head coach wants another shot at the big time.
  — Ben Morse, CNN, 2 Feb. 2024
• The coach Before 2023, there was still some question as to whether Sarkisian was cut out to take a team to the big time.
  — Sam Khan Jr., The Athletic, 24 Aug. 2024
• But fans of these teams got glimpses this season of a potential return to the big time.
  — Eduardo Tansley, The Athletic, 17 Feb. 2025
• Addy and Red’s crimes, on the other hand, really hit the big time.
  — Vulture, 31 Mar. 2023
• This is bar food that has made a successful transition to the big time.
  — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 20 Dec. 2023
• Much of the action will occur overnight in the United States due to the big time difference with the host countries.
  — Jeremy Cluff, The Arizona Republic, 20 July 2023
• This former small-town girl has hit the big time, and is ready to prove that she's got the ssssoft and ssssupple star power to take her all the way to the Drag Race Hall of Fame.
  — Joey Nolfi, EW.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Santos’ fans will be buzzing to return to the big time and become competitive once again.
  — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2024
• How did a footballer on the verge of the big time at Liverpool later find himself at the centre of a massive cocaine bust?
  — Phil Hay, New York Times, 11 July 2025
• Retinal, on the other hand, needs one conversion before hitting the big time.
  — Patricia Shannon, Southern Living, 12 Aug. 2023
• What if, when Orange County needed her most, Porter had run for reelection instead of leaving us for the big time?
  — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 8 Mar. 2024
• Thanks to everyone who responded to yesterday's question! Didn't hit the big time?
  — Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 9 Aug. 2023
• Both have impressed for Argentine Giants River Plate at underage level and are making their way to the big time.
  — Joseph O'Sullivan, Forbes, 28 Nov. 2023
• Most important, the DeSantis speech is another reminder that Bitcoin and crypto have hit the big time.
  — Jeff John Roberts, Fortune Crypto, 25 May 2023
• Possible drawback: Success at the mid-major level is never a guarantee of winning in the big time.
  — Ben Bolch, Los Angeles Times, 10 Feb. 2024
• Within the building, there are coaching offices, strength and conditioning rooms and a wide-open concourse that gives this community college a taste of the big time.
  — Joe Davidson, Sacramento Bee, 14 Feb. 2025
• Kidman is a dynamo in the black comedy about a local weather girl who dreams of hitting the big time, and whose cozy little life of nice clothes, nice car, nice house doesn’t quite align with her desire for more universal fame.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 3 Jan. 2025
• That movie is coming up later in this list, but their second pairing, Tin Cup, is also pretty darn terrific, once again casting Costner as a coulda-been star who never quite made the big time.
  — Will Leitch, Vulture, 27 Apr. 2024
• The wrestlers, meanwhile, dream of breakthroughs despite the long odds against reaching the big time, enduring the physical punishment and occasional indignities that go with the gig.
  — Brian Lowry, CNN, 12 Sep. 2023
• But between its unusual style of play—performers move their hands in proximity to two antennas that control pitch and volume—and an expensive price tag during the Great Depression, the theremin failed to make the big time.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 20 Dec. 2013
• Levi Holloway and Michael Shannon, a killer combination if ever Chicago theater produced one, have been to the big time and come back, formidable of craft but ever in search of intimate substance.
  — Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 13 May 2024
• Read full article Eubanks indeed hit the big time at Wimbledon, the grandest tennis stage of them all, a delightful story that is equal measures remarkable and improbable.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2023