How to Use by and large in a Sentence
by and large
adverb
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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, 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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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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And yet all of this bounty is still, by and large, for the cognoscenti.
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Taylor Antrim,
Vogue,
27 Apr. 2018
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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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But, by and large, Irabién prefers tortillas hot off the comal.
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Washington Post,
15 June 2022
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Alaskans and Americans are, by and large, very middle-of-the-road.
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Antonia Hitchens,
The New Yorker,
1 Sep. 2022
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Since then nature has, by and large, healed those wounds, Rothrock said.
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Karl Schneider,
The Indianapolis Star,
13 Nov. 2024
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But by and large, the day belonged to the Patriots’ defense.
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Tim Bielik,
cleveland,
16 Aug. 2022
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But by and large, this is not something that is common in this league.
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San Diego Union-Tribune,
6 Feb. 2023
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But, by and large, AI is designed to do tasks and things that people do.
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Jared Council,
WSJ,
8 Mar. 2021
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Well, by and large, he's stayed in the low 20s in the polls, and at times that's been as many as 30 points behind Donald Trump.
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Taylor Wilson,
USA TODAY,
7 July 2023
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The answer is that no one can, and by and large, the cast wisely side-steps that minefield.
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Maureen Lee Lenker,
EW.com,
1 Aug. 2024
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What there don’t seem to have been, by and large, were ruling classes.
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George Scialabba,
The New Republic,
1 Nov. 2021
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Sofia: But by and large, the actual body of the aluminum can is pretty easy to process.
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Quartz Staff,
Quartz,
16 May 2023
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And the data shows that, by and large, today’s hunters are killing older, more mature bucks, and letting younger bucks walk.
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Josh Honeycutt,
Outdoor Life,
23 Jan. 2025
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While migration diplomacy does work both ways, richer countries by and large have the upper hand.
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Nicholas R. Micinski,
The Conversation,
3 Feb. 2025
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