How to Use large-scale in a Sentence
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The large-scale work is drawn in thick, simple lines filled with white chalk.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
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Launching large-scale missile and drone attacks on the day of the Lord's birth is wrong.
—Tom Rogers, Newsweek, 26 Dec. 2024
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The experts are very clear that now is not the time to plan any large-scale deployments.
—David Meyer, Fortune, 28 Feb. 2023
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The doctors' groups plan to keep the pressure up, and have scheduled large-scale protests for the weekend.
—Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
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The problem is that there are just too many of these large-scale encounters.
—Brandon Widder, The Verge, 14 June 2023
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This will be one of the few large-scale dance events to be held on a Los Angeles beach, and the first on Cabrillo Beach.
—Ana Monroy Yglesias, Billboard, 24 Mar. 2023
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The spring mud that for weeks has bogged down large-scale maneuver is drying up.
—David Axe, Forbes, 5 May 2023
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The large-scale search had one goal: find and identify a specific type of lizard.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2024
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Scharff says that a large-scale design is not difficult to pull off.
—Yelena Moroz Alpert, House Beautiful, 7 May 2023
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His favorite large-scale trap is called the Uhlik Repeater trap, which can catch dozens of live rats in one night.
—Oliver Whang, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2023
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Option 2: Volunteer to help build or work for a large-scale art project or large-theme camp.
—Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
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When the structures got low enough, large-scale excavators could be brought in to finish the job.
—Roger Vincent, Los Angeles Times, 20 June 2024
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As a result, a large-scale outbreak of this virus among humans has not occurred.
—Dave Wessner, Forbes, 9 Mar. 2023
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The water is where Bailey found her confidence to be the lead of a large-scale Hollywood movie.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 4 Apr. 2023
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The people also suggested that more large-scale events might come in the fall, as the primary race heats up.
—Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
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Michael also had a vision that was both large-scale when the movie called for it and intimate and touching when the movie needed it.
—Elizabeth Raposo, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2024
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Our country could very well lose a large-scale war for lack of weapons and ammunition—but not because of aid to Ukraine.
—Kori Schake, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2023
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Tech leads like Ivan play a huge role in large-scale project success as the tech industry rapidly expands.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
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The property value effects of large-scale solar projects were not consistent across the six states in the study.
—Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 23 Mar. 2023
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Branch out from the basics with some large-scale branches for a minimalist mom.
—Town & Country, 15 Feb. 2023
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The incident is only the latest example of large-scale food theft in the United States.
—Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
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There are large-scale merchants doing a lot of business there, so our platform is attuned for their needs.
—Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 4 Nov. 2024
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This marks the second time in recent weeks that Em has made a surprise appearance during a large-scale event.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 30 July 2023
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The large-scale advertisements banners over the west end of downtown tend to be related to sports.
—Alysa Guffey, The Indianapolis Star, 16 Oct. 2024
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Though efforts to address the problem have fallen short of achieving large-scale change, Baltimore has long been ahead of the curve.
—Lea Skene, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
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That’s helping fund deforestation and large-scale dairy farms, the critics said.
—Grant Stringer, The Mercury News, 9 Nov. 2024
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To make large-scale production a reality, Safi has a long road ahead.
—Ashley Capoot, CNBC, 11 Sep. 2024
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Other works will include large-scale portraits with the intent to have viewers in an escapist realm.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 8 Apr. 2024
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Kyiv's air force reported that North Korean missiles had targeted Ukraine early on Saturday as part of a large-scale missile and drone assault.
—Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 6 Feb. 2025
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No major damage has yet been reported, but Greek authorities are taking precautions ahead of a potentially large-scale earthquake.
—Chris Liakos, CNN, 6 Feb. 2025
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