Synonyms for big band

Grammar : Noun

Définition of big band

noun a large dance band

Example sentences :

Burleigh says he 'lost his nerve' when they met Red Cloud's big band.
Extract from : « Warrior Gap » by Charles King

A big band of deer's workin' down this way, and they're like to come out any time.
Extract from : « Left on the Labrador » by Dillon Wallace

The big band chariot was slowly ascending the foothills of the mountains.
Extract from : « Watch Yourself Go By » by Al. G. Field

A big band of hunters is in the jungle, and they are coming this way.
Extract from : « Tum Tum, the Jolly Elephant » by Richard Barnum

They're a big band, so big that they ain't afeard o' bein' attacked.
Extract from : « The Keepers of the Trail » by Joseph A. Altsheler

I did—as I do when a big band of Indians cross my trail—I skirted it.
Extract from : « The Red River Half-Breed » by Gustave Aimard

We must leave the trail, or like as not we'll run squarely into a big band.
Extract from : « The Masters of the Peaks » by Joseph A. Altsheler

I had killed fifteen buffaloes, and we were on our way home with a wagonload of meat when we were jumped by a big band of Indians.
Extract from : « An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill (Colonel W. F. Cody) » by Buffalo Bill (William Frederick Cody)

And into the midst of the big band of brothers stalked Death—far too frequently during the Great War.
Extract from : « The Thick of the Fray at Zeebrugge » by Percy F. Westerman

At the Bird-Tail not one sheep was to be seen—every one had been sheared, and the big band driven back to its range.
Extract from : « Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888 » by Frances M.A. Roe

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