How to Use by and large in a Sentence
by and large
adverb
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But by and large, the vory themselves had died out by then.
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Alex Abramovich,
The New York Review of Books,
9 May 2019
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Animated movies, by and large, haven’t been great to moms.
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Mia Galuppo,
The Hollywood Reporter,
6 Jan. 2025
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But by and large, as the vaccine has been given out, it has mostly been accepted.
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Tanya Lewis,
Scientific American,
23 July 2019
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But by and large, these groups and others like them existed outside the mainstream.
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Kate Morgan,
New York Times,
28 Dec. 2024
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But by and large, our selection of refried beans looked identical.
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Sam Stone,
Bon Appétit,
16 Jan. 2025
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Republicans by and large see those higher prices as worth the sacrifice.
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Ben Casselman,
New York Times,
28 June 2019
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But people by and large — my supporters — have been, if anything, energized by it.
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Brian Bennett,
Time,
13 July 2019
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That’s because hip-hop is the one realm in which the use of songwriters is still, by and large, considered sacrilege.
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Carrie Battan,
The New Yorker,
11 June 2019
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Reviewing the substance of these responses, by and large, carriers’ plans for these services are far from clear.
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Russell Brandom,
The Verge,
11 July 2019
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But by and large, Alabama’s recycling wasn’t going to China in the first place.
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Dennis Pillion | Dpillion@al.com,
al.com,
20 June 2019
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But the series is, by and large, defined by how every episode focuses on the story of Apollo from a completely new perspective.
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Emily Todd Vanderwerff,
Vox,
5 July 2019
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Five years later, legislatures and school boards from San Diego to Cincinnati are opting, by and large, to hit the snooze button — and reap the rewards.
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Zach Schermele,
Teen Vogue,
9 May 2019
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The intelligentsia by and large recognized the emergence of an important Yiddish literary voice.
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Charles McNulty,
latimes.com,
11 June 2019
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June and July, bleeding into the early part of August, are always loaded with a ceaseless stream of speculation on moves which, by and large, won't happen.
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SI.com,
16 June 2019
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But commenters by and large agree that Jen was the one in the wrong.
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Virginia Chamlee,
People.com,
19 Dec. 2024
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The best of them are, by and large, short-range repeaters.
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Dave Hurteau,
Field & Stream,
18 Dec. 2020
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But by and large, the way people watched TV hadn’t changed since the 1950s.
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Proma Khosla,
IndieWire,
17 Sep. 2024
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Fans by and large want to see lots of offense and lots of points.
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BostonGlobe.com,
30 Oct. 2021
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The country, by and large, doesn’t want what Trump has wrought.
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Alex Pareene,
The New Republic,
10 Jan. 2020
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But, by and large, drinkers simply adapted to the change.
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Sarah Kuta,
Smithsonian Magazine,
25 Jan. 2024
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But by and large, trams remain firmly part of life in the east of the city.
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Washington Post,
4 Nov. 2019
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But, by and large, the players of the era are captured, in addition to the feel.
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Dallas News,
30 Oct. 2022
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Suppose that the numbers showed that by and large, the drivers went to the right edge.
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Lance Eliot,
Forbes,
8 Sep. 2021
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But by and large the Muslims have not applied the 'eye for an eye' law.
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NBC News,
1 Nov. 2020
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But the center, by and large, still had a leading role.
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USA Today,
22 Apr. 2021
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The club believes the upside, by and large, was already there.
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Nick Piecoro,
The Arizona Republic,
14 Feb. 2023
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But a sense of humour is, by and large, a useful thing to have in life.
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The Economist,
3 Oct. 2020
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The piped in fake crowd noise was, by and large, annoying.
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Ann Killion,
San Francisco Chronicle,
11 Mar. 2021
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But by and large, Watt hadn’t yet figured out how to work with his idol.
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Brad Sanders,
SPIN,
13 Mar. 2023
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But by and large, the women on these teams seem to agree: Simone Biles did the right thing.
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Sarah Spelling,
Vogue,
28 July 2021
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