Sentence examples for once bigger from inspiring English sources

Its zany inhabitants — a dancer from Italian TV who, it is claimed, was once "bigger than the Beatles," a bibulous priest, Gurdjieffian spiritualists and other washouts — are as much a part of Mr. Farley's charming yarn as the checkered past and current whereabouts of the relic.

"Wasn't Zoom Zoom once bigger?" They ascend and Ginny feels the catch of love unbearable: she never imagined this, she thinks, her heart suddenly thudding, as if stepping down a stair or two, hard, and then a pause and then another thump, or a clump, her heart clumping down the stairs — caffeine, maybe, or nerves.

In the role of the Oakland Athletics' general manager Billy Beane, Brad Pitt — an admirable actor who is at once bigger and a little smaller than life (that's the secret to his charm, to the humanity of his swagger, and the reason for his splendid incarnation of Benjamin Button) — blossoms, doing something he has never done as well: speaking.

They look at once bigger and more detailed.

We die once, big-time.

And of course once big news breaks, everyone is forced to follow along.

Once big debt burdens appear they are frustratingly hard to dispatch.

In reality, the Greens were once big fans of "direct action" to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Highly symbolic factory closures continue, including among beleaguered car-markers, once big job-providers.

Once big business realizes it can purchase the White House, you have to wonder what the limit is".

Mr Fuller, who made his first fortune managing the Spice Girls, and Mr Cowell were once big friends.