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Example sentences for "bigger"

Lexicographically close words:
bigan; bigelovia; bigg; bigge; bigged; biggest; biggin; bigging; biggish; biggit
  1. He once licked a boy a third bigger than he was, and you needn't call him sissy," one girl said once to a decrying friend.

  2. He's had bigger burdens put on his shoulders than the Lord gave him strength to bear.

  3. He has come back to his old size subsequently; perhaps is bigger than ever: very likely some new affection has closed round his heart and ribs and made them comfortable, and young Pen is a man who will console himself like the rest of us.

  4. Accordingly, I never did so without being conscious of my gestures and trying to make them as "American" as possible The other cloak salesmen I met on the road in those days were mostly representatives of much bigger houses than mine.

  5. A minute later he added, "But you are a bigger one.

  6. You'll have to look for a bigger fool than I," she concluded, with a smile It was an attractive smile, full of good nature and common sense.

  7. It was a new mystery, but it had come so secretly upon the heels of a bigger and more important one, that there was neither time nor opportunity to explore it just at present.

  8. We shall attend to the fellows behind those schemes all right, but it's bigger game we are after.

  9. That's a bigger puzzle than the old telegrapher.

  10. Fear at any rate," replied Don Quixote, "will make him look bigger to thee than half the world.

  11. He shew'd it me himself, and is literally a fat young man with a head and face much bigger than they are usually worn.

  12. No, it's bigger--as much bigger as those trees are than the Australian bushes.

  13. You are a bigger chap than me; you tell him, for you are about right: he ought to know.

  14. They are not much bigger than children, and they are such solemn, stolid little chaps.

  15. I never shot anything bigger than a pheasant in my life.

  16. So ends this story, begun as to its love portion by the little romance of a tumble, and continued by the bigger romance of a rescue.

  17. Inch by inch its edges wore away, until the little space that half-sustained the dark heap was no bigger than a coffin-lid.

  18. Nothing bigger can come to a human being than to love a great Cause more than life itself, and to have the privilege throughout life of working for that Cause.

  19. The Christian god was greater than our gods, and a bigger killer of men.

  20. To which his wife retorted with calm superiority: "Ye're a bigger fool'n even I took ye fer, Jabe Smith.

  21. The bigger mouse she called Tib, and the lesser Jone.

  22. And forthwith there appeared another in the likenesse of a dumb dogge, somewhat bigger than any of the former.

  23. Ther wilbe many vther Divellis, waiting wpon our Maister Divell; bot he is bigger and mor awfull than the rest of the Divellis, and they all reverence him.

  24. The squid I've seen on the Atlantic coast don't often grow bigger than twelve inches.

  25. In the first place, the sexes of the hair or common seal are the same size, not like the fur seal, where the sea-catch is four or five times bigger than the female.

  26. The bigger the thing you have to do the more simply you do it the better it will be done.

  27. I ought to have had him without waiting for a warrant, but the responsibility was a bit bigger one than I cared to take.

  28. The idea of giving up a dollar to Jabez Potter's mind is bigger than the shooting of a thousand men.

  29. That was a trifle in his estimation, compared with the bigger speculations of his Didactica Magna, and still more with his PansophiƦ Prodromus or Porta SapientiƦ Reserata.

  30. A bigger fraud than that Dutch Flat was never sprung on any lot of men.

  31. I would like to know if we were bigger fools than he was.

  32. This hole is bigger down here than it is at the top.

  33. But I went as far as that, and found a bigger crowd than ever.

  34. Sir Nicholas and all the sporting gentlemen of County Galway were there, whispering with each other, having collected themselves in crowds much bigger than usual.

  35. There, another, looking bigger and more self-confident, had no shirt front at all.

  36. He was, however, clever enough to have found out during the last two months that the Malgamite scheme was a bigger thing than either he or his uncle had ever imagined.

  37. My brain may go--a little clot of blood no bigger than a pin's head, and the greatest brain on earth is so much pulp!

  38. I will send up your cloak, which is barely bigger than a fig leaf, when I can.

  39. The big crags and rocks and crevices are supposed to conceal his ferociousness the sea-monster, growing bigger and hungrier and fiercer every day.

  40. The beast is supposed to be there yet, growing bigger and fiercer and more terrible year by year.

  41. Search me if I knows where he got it from, for he wasn't much bigger around in the works than a mosquito when I took him up there.

  42. Billy never misses a tin can now'days, and the gent was bigger than a can.

  43. It looks awful bad for good fruit and vegetables and fish to be thrown away when folks have to pay ten cents for a loaf of bread no bigger than a watch-charm," said Collie.

  44. I begin to think you are a bigger man than he is.

  45. But I'll show you that I'm bigger than you.


  46. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bigger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.