How to Use by and large in a Sentence

by and large

adverb
  • But commenters by and large agree that Jen was the one in the wrong.
    — Virginia Chamlee, People.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The flight controllers were, by and large, a cocky bunch.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 30 Jan. 2018
  • 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
  • Which means that these recipes are by and large easy to pull off.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 5 Apr. 2018
  • Fans by and large want to see lots of offense and lots of points.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 Oct. 2021
  • The country, by and large, doesn’t want what Trump has wrought.
    — Alex Pareene, The New Republic, 10 Jan. 2020
  • But, by and large, drinkers simply adapted to the change.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Jan. 2024
  • But by and large, the vory themselves had died out by then.
    — Alex Abramovich, The New York Review of Books, 9 May 2019
  • But by and large, trams remain firmly part of life in the east of the city.
    — Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2019
  • But, by and large, the players of the era are captured, in addition to the feel.
    — Dallas News, 30 Oct. 2022
  • And yet all of this bounty is still, by and large, for the cognoscenti.
    — Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 27 Apr. 2018
  • 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 2014, the position has, by and large, been Tim Melia’s.
    — Daniel Sperry, Kansas City Star, 29 Jan. 2025
  • Smith is, by and large, the series' eye-rolling MacGuffin.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 13 Apr. 2018
  • The world of college sports, by and large, has moved on from the mess left behind by Hugh Freeze.
    — Dan Wolken, USA TODAY, 10 Apr. 2018
  • South Pasadena has changed over the years but, by and large, still has much of the charm it's always had.
    — Benjamin Oreskes, latimes.com, 20 Apr. 2018
  • 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
  • While the world’s largest ocean carriers are by and large continuing to avoid the Red Sea, the operator of the Suez Canal stated its case for a future return.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Feb. 2025
  • French mathematicians were by and large content to keep going.
    — Solomon Adams, WIRED, 23 Feb. 2025

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