How to Use full-scale in a Sentence
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All that changed last year with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
— Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 27 June 2023 -
Oleksii Reznikov has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war.
— Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023 -
The idea triggered a full-scale revolt on the Google campus.
— David E. Sanger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024 -
Since the full-scale invasion, airspace over Ukraine is closed.
— Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024 -
With the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Prigozhin was able and eager to again prove his value to Putin.
— Richard Engel, NBC News, 25 June 2023 -
On the first day of the full-scale war, Mr. Shevchenko heard explosions soon after waking up.
— Lydia Tomkiw, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023 -
It was made in 2021, before Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
— Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2024 -
Both schools feed into Hoover High School, which also got a full-scale makeover in recent years.
— Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2023 -
While there’s a full-scale home office, the new owners will want to enjoy the outside patio space nightly.
— Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2023 -
Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the police have opened more than 8,000 cases on draft dodging, their press service told ABC News.
— Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023 -
The feel-good moment came about halfway through the first full-scale training camp practice for the Denver Broncos of the Sean Payton era.
— Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023 -
The second is a full-scale replica of a Lalibela Church doorway, made of 27 tons of sandstone and standing 12 feet tall.
— Zachary Smith, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023 -
By one estimate, Nvidia and CoreWeave’s 11-minute record-setting training time would scale up to about two days of full-scale training.
— IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2023 -
The crisis of confidence in the UN has been building since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
— Richard Gowan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023 -
And while gourmands will have to wait quite a bit longer to try his full-scale restaurant, Prélude is a welcome appetizer.
— Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 May 2024 -
Russian forces took control of the plant in 2022 shortly after their full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
— Reuters, NBC News, 8 Apr. 2024 -
The effort prompted a backlash and led to a full-scale review of these operations.
— Justin Ling, WIRED, 1 Feb. 2024 -
So the second full-scale Starship test launch is, first and foremost, a learning exercise.
— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023 -
With a broad selection of activities available to guests, the inn felt like a full-scale resort.
— Hannah Selinger, Travel + Leisure, 24 June 2023 -
For the Trinity Test — the film’s money shot — Jackson’s team created a full-scale model of the metal globe-like bomb.
— Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 11 Jan. 2024 -
In the lead-up to Russia’s full-scale invasion, Belarus became a staging point for the Russian assault.
— Emily Rauhala, Washington Post, 27 June 2023 -
Few industry executives would have the moxie to launch a new film company in the middle of a full-scale war.
— Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023 -
After the full-scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022, Crimea emerged as a key military staging ground.
— Adam Taylor, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2023 -
Meanwhile, there’s a diplomatic scramble to avert full-scale war between Israel and Lebanon.
— Lorenzo Tugnoli, Washington Post, 1 Apr. 2024 -
Less than fifteen months later, Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
— Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2023 -
The attack came months after an assault by Ukraine’s forces on the city caused one of the largest losses of life for Russia’s troops in a single incident since the full-scale invasion.
— Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports, Arkansas Online, 6 July 2023 -
Signs are pointing toward November for the second full-scale Starship test flight.
— Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 27 Oct. 2023 -
The United States has committed more than $60 billion in aid to Ukraine since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
— Aamer Madhani, Anchorage Daily News, 26 Aug. 2023 -
The United States dispatched warships to the region last week, hoping the show of force would deter the group — and its Iranian allies — from launching a full-scale attack.
— Steve Hendrix, Washington Post, 18 Oct. 2023 -
One of the newly buried in Lviv, a colonel in the border guard, died more than a year ago in the eastern port city of Mariupol, which fell to Russia three months after the full-scale invasion began.
— Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 26 June 2023
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