SCALE in a Sentence
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120 example sentences for SCALE, such as:
1. They entertain on a large scale.
2. The research was carried out on a modest scale.
3. The dolls are now produced on a commercial scale.
4. The scale of the fighting is almost unimaginable.
5. His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.
2. The research was carried out on a modest scale.
3. The dolls are now produced on a commercial scale.
4. The scale of the fighting is almost unimaginable.
5. His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.
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Meanings and Examples of SCALE
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scale
n. a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
v. remove the scales from
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1 To-night the pressure of accumulated misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady.
2 After all, he had only done what Frank had done on a small scale.
3 But perhaps you will make enough money to get into bribery on a large scale some day.
4 Farmers coming in with sled-loads of wheat complained that Champ could not read the scale, that he seemed always to be watching some one back in the darkness of the bins.
5 Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but they are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
Context Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
6 It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their menage on a humbler scale than heretofore.
7 There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual.
8 Then Jokubas pointed out the place where the cattle were driven to be weighed, upon a great scale that would weigh a hundred thousand pounds at once and record it automatically.
9 And every week the managers of it got together and compared notes, and there was one scale for all the workers in the yards and one standard of efficiency.
10 The old scale had dealt with the wages of the skilled men only; and of the members of the Meat Workers' Union about two-thirds were unskilled men.
11 But everything depends on what scale you look at things.
12 Now, on the small scale, the 'arth is level; but on the large scale it is round.'
13 There were horses and men, cattle and women, pigs and children, all holding the same rank in the scale of being, and were all subjected to the same narrow examination.
14 The young woman was tall, with a figure of perfect elegance on a large scale.
15 Between thee and me, the scale hangs fairly balanced.
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1 Car firms are desperate to achieve economies of scale.
2 The scale of the fighting is almost unimaginable.
3 This ruler has one scale in centimeters and another in inches.
4 Traditional quilts combine the discipline of pattern with the artistic freedom to choose color and scale.
5 The dolls are now produced on a commercial scale.
6 On a global scale, AIDS may well become the leading cause of infant death.
7 Pollution could cause changes to weather patterns on a global scale.
8 One Peking factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six.
9 They entertain on a large scale.
10 There have been large - scale military manoeuvres on the frontier.
11 The architect had produced a scale model of the proposed shopping complex.
12 Unlike the American, the British press operates on a national scale.
13 The research was carried out on a modest scale.
14 His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.
15 The story is about theft, fraud and deceit on an incredible scale.