Sentence examples for prominent big from inspiring English sources

(Chinen 20110602 Erica von Kleist and No Exceptions (Thursday) The name of the band may or may not allude to lingering prejudices about female horn players: Ms. von Kleist has proved her salt, in any case, as a saxophonist and flutist with some prominent big bands.

Helen Forrest, American jazz singer who performed with a number of prominent big bands during the late 1930s and early '40s, including those led by Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman, and Harry James; she embarked on a long and successful solo career in 1944 and recorded her last album, Now and Forever, in 1983 (b. April 12 , 1918, Atlantic City, N.J. d. July 11, 1999, Los Angeles, Calif.).

Rather than emerging with big, prominent playing, they were notably gracious in giving way to one another, playing down solo moments, bringing to the whole a sense of lightness and ease.

"It's not a big prominent clump," he said.

Jewellers who've made this stuff for big prominent guys have told me this shit is fake.

In recent weeks, foreign investors have been heavy sellers in Southeast Asian markets, according to Kenneth Chan of Nomura International in Hong Kong, and foreign investors generally concentrate on big, prominent companies like Indosat.

Above all, long stretches of the book represent what the Germans call Ideengeschichte, a method of approaching the past that treats prominent, "big-name" thinkers as representatives of wider historical trends and interprets the present through a genealogy of their writings instead of situating them in the material and cultural context of their own time.

Before Trainwreck, Schumer's most prominent big-screen role had been far down the cast list in 2012's Seeking a Friend for the End of the World; her breakthrough was secured on the strength of her hit Comedy Central sketch show Inside Amy Schumer.

As a result, revival and rediscovery à la Lewis have never taken place: Ken Russell's early-70s nudeathon The Devils, based on his pioneering non-fiction novel The Devils of Loudun, remains the most prominent big-screen Huxley adaptation, as Brave New World has been adapted for television and radio but not cinema.

The city's first nongaming, nonsmoking hotel, open since 2011, overlooks the prominent "Biggest Little City in the World" sign.

The Dodgers have long been an MLB team watched by Japanese baseball fans because of Hideo Nomo, the first player from the islands to win a prominent big-league role.