How to Use scale in a Sentence

scale

1 of 2 noun
Definition of scalenext
Synonyms for scalenext
  • The story won’t change in shape but will thrive in scale.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 4 Oct. 2023
  • The new images show the front of the B-21 from the front at ground level, revealing for the first time the scale of the aircraft.
    — Michael Lee, Fox News, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Climate action is dwarfed by the scale of the challenge.
    — Thomas Catenacci, Fox News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • Few artists ever have had a year on the scale of Morgan Wallen’s 2023.
    — Charlie Amter, Variety, 1 Dec. 2023
  • What distinguishes the thrive post from telling a friend is the scale.
    — Isle McElroy, The Atlantic, 16 Feb. 2024
  • The matter of scale ends up being crucial to Here Lies Love.
    — Vulture, 20 July 2023
  • Insects are used on a far grander scale in the feed-and-food industry.
    — Lars Chittka, Scientific American, 14 June 2023
  • The delay reflects a growing awareness of the scale of the task before them.
    — Brady Knox, Washington Examiner, 16 Oct. 2023
  • The shocking scale of violence in the war is changing that.
    — Benjamin Case, The Conversation, 6 Feb. 2024
  • The key to a longer, healthier life isn’t reaching a number on a scale.
    — Alexa Mikhail, Fortune Well, 30 Dec. 2023
  • And that’s, of course, assuming the movie has the right scale and scope to get people excited.
    — Rebecca Rubin, Variety, 16 June 2023
  • In terms of scale and wrenching drama, the crisis has no precedent.
    — Yasmeen Serhan, TIME, 14 Oct. 2023
  • The scale of the damage in Derna will make recovery efforts long and painful.
    — Ziad Jaber, NBC News, 21 Sep. 2023
  • African music has exploded globally over the years and will now be exposed on a large scale to the rest of the world.
    — Lyndsey Havens, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
  • The scale numbers stools from types 1 to 5, with types 3 and 4 having the optimal appearance for a child's stool.
    — Elizabeth Pratt, Health, 20 Sep. 2023
  • And at the heart of these algorithms is systematic theft on a mass scale.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The miniatures were blended into set pieces built to human scale for actors to stand on and touch.
    — Will Tizard, Variety, 9 July 2023
  • The historic scale of the destruction in Maui comes into focus.
    — Lara Horwitz, NBC News, 13 Aug. 2023
  • Located about 20 miles north of the city of Napa, St. Helena is big on charm and small on scale.
    — Megan Wood, Travel + Leisure, 17 Feb. 2024
  • At the same time… we’re not necessarily set up for the biggest scale.
    — Amrita Khalid, The Verge, 1 Aug. 2023
  • What unions haven’t had during that stretch is a true gut-check moment on a national scale.
    — Noam Scheiber, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Some of these tools have already been deployed on a local scale to great effect.
    — Zoya Teirstein, Anchorage Daily News, 19 July 2023
  • Beneath the crystal globe, the minutes scale is studded with 36 diamonds, while 24 adorn the watch crown.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 Aug. 2023
  • Now, officials are working out the kinks so the service runs more smoothly on a larger scale.
    — Jessica Puckett, Condé Nast Traveler, 20 Dec. 2023
  • On the scale of the whole body, meanwhile, overheating can trigger a downward spiral.
    — Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 25 Aug. 2023
  • At that scale the electric field that speeds the electrons along comes from the light’s oscillating electric field.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 26 Dec. 2023
  • That issue of numbers and scale is very new and very complicated to try to manage and find a good balance.
    — Sarah Matusek, The Christian Science Monitor, 3 Oct. 2023
  • This feature can be especially helpful to ensure a piece is the right scale for your space, points out Kennedy.
    — Leslie J. Thompson, Dallas News, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Munro sets her gaze on panoramas of history and place, while Hadley lingers closer to hearth and home, her dramas tighter and on a smaller scale.
    — Hamilton Cain, Washington Post, 8 July 2023
  • Even at its current scale, the time the Gruenwald's put in each week, coupled with the challenges of hiring and keeping employees, means the end of the line is in sight.
    — Karl Ebert, Journal Sentinel, 21 Mar. 2024
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scale

2 of 2 verb
  • The plan is to scale up to 200 farmers over the next two years.
    — Heide Brandes, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
  • But the idea now is to scale up all efforts on vacants, across the city.
    — Dan Rodricks, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2024
  • The new expansion of the child tax credit would be scaled down.
    — Daniel Desrochers, Kansas City Star, 18 Jan. 2024
  • What’s more, the clock tempos did not scale with the animals’ size.
    — Quanta Magazine, 18 Sep. 2023
  • The cuts are part of a system-wide effort to scale back costs at Disney.
    — oregonlive, 30 June 2023
  • There hasn’t been a method that can examine a wide range of size and time scales all at once.
    — Somin Lee, The Conversation, 20 July 2023
  • The question is how to scale up the technology to gigawatt scale.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 23 Sep. 2023
  • Sunlight seeped into the room, tracing paths of gold over the floor, then scaling the walls.
    — Hossein Derakhshan, WIRED, 21 July 2023
  • The real question is whether Sherman can scale up from here.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 22 July 2023
  • Investigators went to the home and found blood on the wooden fence that the woman had scaled.
    — Maxine Bernstein, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Mike Dunn from Zion Guide Hub had agreed to teach me how to clip into a harness and scale down 70-foot sandstone cliffs.
    — Samantha Falewée, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2023
  • Yet crowds continue to pour in, and climbers still scale the sheer walls of El Capitan.
    — Lila Seidman, Los Angeles Times, 25 Mar. 2024
  • But the Prince of Wales has scaled back his games to a single public annual event in recent years.
    — Simon Perry, Peoplemag, 6 July 2023
  • If one technique doesn’t end up scaling well enough, maybe others will in the coming decades.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 14 Dec. 2023
  • Visitors need to obtain a permit to scale the Half Dome.
    — Vanessa Arredondo, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
  • The group continues to scale up operations with a core focus on the West Coast.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Once the show scaled back the bombast, its themes of processing grief and found family struck a clearer chord.
    — Thomas Floyd, Washington Post, 16 May 2023
  • But the switch to an all-volunteer force happened at the same time that the United States began to scale back welfare programs.
    — Juan Quiroz, Foreign Affairs, 5 Jan. 2024
  • In their twilight years, the couple scaled back the tours that had dominated their schedules.
    — Robert D. McFadden, New York Times, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The dual strikes gave the studios cover to hit the reset button on business plans that had already been scaled back.
    — Joe Otterson, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
  • The Party recently scaled back a plan to invest twenty-eight billion pounds a year in green projects.
    — Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 25 Mar. 2024
  • Sydney used to be all about mixed martial arts, or MMA (yes, as in fighting), but she’s had to scale back a little lately.
    — Korin Miller, Women's Health, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The deaths were announced as a U.S. envoy tried to persuade the Israelis to scale back their campaign sooner rather than later.
    — Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, arkansasonline.com, 16 Dec. 2023
  • This idea came from researching doll houses and realizing that the doll inside the house was not to scale.
    — Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The sergeant scales the stairwells of the Capitol, knocks on closed doors, questions staff members who coyly claim that their bosses are not present.
    — Mike Baker, BostonGlobe.com, 4 June 2023
  • Two workers scaled the tree pile like a cliff and began heaving trees to smaller flatbed trucks parked beside them.
    — Alexandra E. Petri, Los Angeles Times, 21 Dec. 2023
  • Eventually, three of the surviving men were able to scale the steep cliffs surrounding the bay.
    — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 31 May 2023
  • Since the 1990s, via ferratas have drawn adventure tourists who seek the thrill of mountain climbing but lack the necessary skills to scale the rock on their own.
    — Shoshi Parks, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Feb. 2024
  • First, finances have forced many to scale back big holiday bashes.
    — Chris Gardner, The Hollywood Reporter, 15 Dec. 2023
  • He’s impressed by her ability to scale the wall like a dexterous koala.
    — Julissa James, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2023

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