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Example sentences from the Web for biggerThe Big Five banks dubbed too big to fail, are 35 percent bigger than they were when the meltdown was triggered. Sen. Warren’s Main Street Crusade to Pressure Clinton|Eleanor Clift|January 8, 2015|DAILY BEAST Steiger was nominated, and Richard Burton, and a lot of people in bigger movies. The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile|Robert Ward|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST “The four largest banks are nearly 40 percent bigger today than they were just five years ago,” she observed. How Naive is Elizabeth Warren?|Nick Gillespie|December 18, 2014|DAILY BEAST This game is only two hours of what promises to be a twelve hour series, so there is plenty of time to get bigger and badder. ‘Game of Thrones’ Interactive FanFiction: Whoops, My Friend Was Speared in the Throat|Alec Kubas-Meyer|December 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Cannons were fired in the heart of the tiny principality, which is no bigger than Central Park, to celebrate the news. Princess Charlene Gives Birth To Twins Gabriella and Jacques|Tom Sykes|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST I know many a bigger craft wouldn't hold up her canvas under such a gale.' Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune|Charles James Lever It happened in this wise: Sim had a very high temper, and in a quarrel with a bigger cat than herself she was vanquished. Afterwards she found there was plenty of room, so she did "i-n-g" bigger to make up for it. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911|Various One umbrella, were it no bigger than a fairy mushroom, is worth ten such stopgaps. In Ireland the cultivated portion of a holding is often no bigger relatively than that work-table on an acre of waste. About Ireland|E. Lynn Linton
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In addition to the idiom beginning with bigger - bigger they come, the harder they fall, the
also see: - eyes are bigger than one's stomach
Words nearby biggerbig fish in a small pond, Big Five, bigfoot, bigg, big game, bigger, biggie, biggin, bigging, biggish, biggity The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Words related to biggerhuge, enormous, full, immense, tremendous, hefty, fat, colossal, sizable, substantial, massive, gigantic, considerable, vast, leading, powerful, valuable, significant, popular, serious |