How to Use big bang in a Sentence
big bang
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How did the big bang shape the structure of the universe?
—Emily V. Driscoll, Scientific American, 12 Nov. 2020
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No points, few first downs, tense waiting for the big bang.
—David J. Neal, miamiherald, 30 Jan. 2018
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Think of it as the little something that gives a big bang.
—Rand Richards Cooper, courant.com, 19 Sep. 2019
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The first stars appeared to have arisen a mere 180 million years after the big bang.
—Marcia Bartusiak, WSJ, 5 Mar. 2021
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That moment in the subway provided the big bang of this book.
—Washington Post, 11 Mar. 2022
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No one was injured by the explosions, but the big bangs spread fear through the region.
—oregonlive, 14 Nov. 2019
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In the fourteen billion years between the big bang and the autumn of 1957, space was pristine.
—Raffi Khatchadourian, The New Yorker, 21 Sep. 2020
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Learn more › Dove hunting kicks fall seasons off with a big bang.
—Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 4 May 2023
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What happened after the big bang to make galaxies and stars and black holes?
—Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 July 2022
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The big bang for this agency is setting good standards.
—Jamie L. Lareau, Detroit Free Press, 22 July 2019
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Powerball's top prize winner has the chance to start the New Year off with a big bang worth about half a billion dollars.
—NBC News, 1 Jan. 2022
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And then, of course, the big bang of democratic expansion after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union.
—Eric Johnson, Vox, 7 Aug. 2019
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Hardware is a big bang for the dollar element of kitchens.
—The Seattle Times, 13 Sep. 2017
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The small calorie investment per yolk will provide a big bang for your buck and keep you fuller longer.
—Stefani Sassos, M.s., R.d.n., C.s.o., C.d.n., Good Housekeeping, 6 Dec. 2022
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Research is all about the biggest bang, but the imperative for products is bang-for-the-buck.
—Scott Kirsner, BostonGlobe.com, 6 July 2018
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To be sure, Bitcoin has been a dinner-table mainstay since its big bang in 2017.
—Vildana Hajric, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2021
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The first stars and galaxies formed something like 300 million years after the big bang.
—Joel Achenbach, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Mar. 2022
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One idea still in the running is that the missing matter is made of primordial black holes that formed soon after the big bang.
—Clara Moskowitz, Scientific American, 18 Mar. 2021
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With their strong spreading habit, Wave petunias fill flower beds and provide a big bang for your buck.
—Southern Living, 4 June 2021
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What exactly set off the big bang that started our universe?
—Martin Rees, Scientific American, 18 Aug. 2020
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Here are the top picks of fitness professionals for equipment that will give you the biggest bang for (not very much) buck.
—NBC News, 9 Mar. 2018
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An obvious first question is: What came before the big bang?
—Andrew Crumey, WSJ, 16 Apr. 2021
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The instrument will allow astronomers to peer back through the eons, to see what the universe used to look like just a few billion years after the big bang.
—Dan Falk, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 July 2021
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Flightseeing: Want the biggest bang for your eye-candy buck?
—Josh Niva, Anchorage Daily News, 2 May 2018
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But Nolan’s reshuffling of the story’s chronology seems more born of a showman’s instinct to save his big bang for a climax.
—WIRED, 24 July 2023
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In the immediate aftermath of the big bang, about 13.8 billion years ago, the universe was filled with a cosmic fog.
—Charles Q. Choi, Scientific American, 10 May 2022
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These are vendors that can focus on incremental change, too, and not some big bang-like event.
—Sarvarth Misra, Forbes, 27 May 2021
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But as Davies explains, there has always still been that nagging question of what happened before the big bang?
—Bruce Dorminey, Forbes, 30 Aug. 2021
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Some of the light captured from these even more distant galaxies was emitted less than a billion years after the big bang.
—Fionna M. D. Samuels, Scientific American, 21 July 2022
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While this was percolating before Covid started, it’s hit a fever pitch now, and people throughout the country want a big bang for their buck.
—Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2023
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