How to Use scale in a Sentence

scale

1 of 2 noun

• 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
• Many of those services and amenities are available at existing shelters, but this would be on a grand scale.
  — Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Apr. 2024
• Inspired by baseball pennants, some have compared the ballpark’s design to the Sydney Opera House, while others likened the individual tiers to the scales of an armadillo.
  — Jill Martin, CNN, 5 Apr. 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
• About this story Due to the uncertainty of the configuration of the debris in the river, renderings may not be to scale.
  — Leslie Shapiro, Washington Post, 5 Apr. 2024
• Trian also proposed to scale down ESPN’s direct-to-consumer ambitions.
  — Alex Weprin, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 5 Sep 2024