How to Use big business in a Sentence

big business

noun
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  • Tourism is big business in the region.
  • The tax proposal will be of most benefit to big business.
  • What better way to follow up some big business moves than with a romantic getaway.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 4 July 2021
  • Baseball is a big business, but most big businesses don’t do their big cleanups while all the customers are watching.
    — Bill Shaikin, Los Angeles Times, 24 June 2021
  • Personal injury law is a big business in the United States.
    — Chris Dreyer, Forbes, 28 June 2021
  • And bourbon tourism has become a big business, driven in part by a surge in enthusiasm overseas.
    — Bruce Schreiner, ajc, 18 June 2021
  • To be certain, advertising has become a big business for Amazon as a whole.
    — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Oct. 2024
  • In other words, the project aims to get the government off the backs of Americans, so big business can saddle up.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 1 Oct. 2024
  • The debate has been closely watched for years in Texas, where horses are big business and two of the last slaughterhouses were located.
    — Emily Caldwell, Dallas News, 2 July 2021
  • If that model is followed, the big business of health care may turn into something smaller, more localized—and hopefully better equipped to keep us all well.
    — Time, 29 June 2021
  • These differences are also a big business opportunity, too, as many companies have found, including my own.
    — Greg Story, Forbes, 21 June 2021
  • Today, politician after politician promises remedial or even punitive action against big business.
    — Steve Denning, Forbes, 23 June 2021
  • But no one is more intolerant than the modern left-wing secular crusader, whose views on these cultural issues further enjoy the backing of the media, big business, academe and so on.
    — William McGurn, WSJ, 21 June 2021
  • Virtual currency mining had been a big business in China before a crackdown that started earlier this year, accounting for more than half of the world's crypto supply.
    — NBC News, 5 July 2021
  • 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
  • Cornhole is big business these days, with a decade-old pro tour and stops in 35 cities this year.
    — Kathrine Nero, The Enquirer, 27 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • With the absence of fans last year, the NCAA expects to do big business this year at the eight regionals spread across the land.
    — Brent Zwerneman, San Antonio Express-News, 16 Mar. 2022
  • The sheer loss of shareholder value would seem to make this one of the big business stories of our time.
    — Anne Diebel, The New York Review of Books, 6 July 2021
  • By the mid-1970s, such shelters had become big business on Wall Street.
    — Jeff Ernsthausen, ProPublica, 7 Dec. 2021
  • 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
  • There’s much more to the executive order, and even more than that to be done to rein in big business.
    — Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2021
  • Return to menu Railroads have been called the nation’s first big business.
    — Lee Powell, Washington Post, 28 Feb. 2023
  • The relic trade was big business at the time; relics were bought and sold, and pilgrims often paid a fee to visit them.
    — Eric Vanden Eykel, The Conversation, 3 Sep. 2024
  • Soon after that, Clark gave his first major speech for a big business crowd.
    — oregonlive, 1 Feb. 2022
  • In the big business of cannabis, MedMen is hardly the only one struggling.
    — Marisa Gerber, Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • Store brands have always been big business—and for good reason.
    — Jane Black, WSJ, 14 Jan. 2022

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