How to Use full-scale in a Sentence

full-scale

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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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