Examples:

• New York is called the Big Apple.
• The Big Apple, it took 150 years to get to eight million people.
• We call New York the Big Apple.
• The Big Apple has 8.5 million people and an annual budget of 80 billion dollars.
• A group of New Yorkers meets here every Friday to reminisce about the Big Apple.
• The small-town man has finally found his feet in the Big Apple.
• He had these big cheeks, these big apple cheeks and this wheat-blond hair, and he seemed so sweet.
• Look at this! Have you ever seen such a big apple?