Example sentences for: big-name

How can you use “big-name” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In the summer, the Sultan’s Pool, a vast outdoor amphitheatre, stages rock concerts or other big-name events.

  • Praise for the idea behind director Robert Altman's six-episode dramatic series: Each installment has a different premise, a different big-name director (including Altman and James Foley), and different big-name actors (Rosanna Arquette and Carrie Fisher)--but the same prop: a pearl-handled semiautomatic.

  • Big-name country artists have forsaken the form--not only for filthy lucre, but also because mainstream success helps them "lose the sense of inferiority they've had since Appomattox."

  • Meanwhile, Microsoft has bought a stable of aggressive, big-name lobbyists.

  • For many fledgling dot-coms, the big-name former politicos will play a key role in their dash for notoriety during this make-or-break presidential election year.


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