Sentence examples for a sort of big from inspiring English sources

Eventually, though, she grew to see Kennedy as a sort of big brother.

He has since become a sort of big brother to the children.

But what was a cave, and what was just a sort of big hole in the cliffs?

'A sort of big thing that you've got to get out, and it's just the wrapping that makes it look different.

"We wanted to make a sort of big band on the album, like a crazy people being all together," Nicolas says.

Penrose thinks we could have a sort of big crunch instead, a universal collapse that would prefigure a new big bang.

If the characters, good and bad, educated or not, have a quality in common, it is a sort of big-city sophistication.

So there is a sort of common big data, big digital data ground, which I think is of great interest to share with many scientists.

"There is behind this, also, I think, a kind of status competition or imitation, that there is positive status in having a sort of 'big department muscle,' in smaller departments," said Franklin E. Zimring, a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley.

By the end we have witnessed a sort of sociological big bang, when this tight, angry ball of political energy suddenly bursts and disbands irreparably (1 20).

He wants Northern Ireland's economy to be much more self-sufficient, he said in a newspaper interview, not "the dependent economy it is now, with a sort of UK big brother umbrella over it".