How to Use full-scale in a Sentence

full-scale

adjective
  • Until then, a full-scale mockup will be viewable in the exhibition.
    Olatunji Osho-Williams, Smithsonian Magazine, 15 Oct. 2024
  • However, none of these experiences could have prepared us for the nightmare of a full-scale invasion.
    Anna Konieczyńska, Vogue, 25 Feb. 2023
  • Conservative media and politicians depicted it as a full-scale invasion.
    Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 16 Oct. 2024
  • Until regulations are agreed upon, full-scale mining is prohibited.
    WIRED, 28 Feb. 2023
  • In the eight years of war before the full-scale invasion, about four thousand Ukrainian soldiers lost their lives; in the two and a half years since, the number of war dead is thought to be closer to eighty thousand.
    Keith Gessen, The New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2024
  • In the early hours of the morning, Russia launched an unprecedented full-scale invasion of Ukraine, raining missiles on targets across the country.
    Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 24 Feb. 2023
  • But without congressional support, many of Trump's more ambitious projects, like a full-scale immigration overhaul and sweeping tax cuts, would be limited.
    Axios, 16 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • The film follows Lévy on the ground in Ukraine from the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
    Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
  • 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
  • Yet Putin’s full-scale assault on Ukraine forced far greater soul-searching.
    Jane Gottlieb, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • It was made in 2021, before Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This will be the fifth full-scale test flight of Starship but the first time SpaceX attempts such a maneuver on the program.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and used it as one of the launchpads for its full-scale invasion last year.
    Reuters, NBC News, 3 May 2023
  • 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
  • Mariupol was the closest Putin has come to the front lines since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.
    Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • China and India even fought a short but full-scale war in 1962, which was followed by a half-hearted truce.
    Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Now, thanks to years of drought and the effects of climate change, the usual river deficit has grown into a full-scale crisis.
    Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • Unilever has been under pressure to leave Russia in the wake of the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now in its third year.
    Dasha Afanasieva, Fortune Europe, 16 May 2024
  • Their work was judged by a panel, and the teams who were chosen will build and demonstrate full-scale food technologies over the next year in Phase 3 of the challenge.
    Julia Musto, Fox News, 31 May 2023
  • So, the full-scale entry into the U.S. market comes with milestones attached.
    David Phelan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 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
  • In April, Iran and Israel came to blows but ultimately avoided a full-scale war.
    Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
  • 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

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