SCALED in a Sentence

Learn SCALED from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
120 example sentences for SCALED, such as:
1. They entertain on a large scale.
2. We've scaled up production to meet demand.
3. The dolls are now produced on a commercial scale.
4. The scale of the fighting is almost unimaginable.
5. We need special tool to deal with the scaled fish.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of SCALED
scaled
 a.  having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles
 a.  (used of armor) having overlapping metal plates attached to a leather backing
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
2  As they had no ladders, the French scaled it with their nails.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue Polonceau.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
4  The little barricade of the Mondetour lane can be scaled.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
5  The barricade once scaled had a mane of lightning flashes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
6  The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, assailed, scaled, and never captured.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
7  All the framework was black with time, and from the iron the paint had mostly scaled away.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  To-night the pressure of accumulated misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
9  After all, he had only done what Frank had done on a small scale.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  But perhaps you will make enough money to get into bribery on a large scale some day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  Farmers coming in with sled-loads of wheat complained that Champ could not read the scale, that he seemed always to be watching some one back in the darkness of the bins.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but they are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
13  It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their menage on a humbler scale than heretofore.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
14  There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
15  Then Jokubas pointed out the place where the cattle were driven to be weighed, upon a great scale that would weigh a hundred thousand pounds at once and record it automatically.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  We've scaled up production to meet demand.
2  Given the resource implications involved, the plan will have to be scaled down.
3  The writing can be scaled to any size, depending on the paper.
4  The IMF has scaled back its growth forecasts for the next decade.
5  We need special tool to deal with the scaled fish.
6  Car firms are desperate to achieve economies of scale.
7  The scale of the fighting is almost unimaginable.
8  This ruler has one scale in centimeters and another in inches.
9  Traditional quilts combine the discipline of pattern with the artistic freedom to choose color and scale.
10  The dolls are now produced on a commercial scale.
11  On a global scale, AIDS may well become the leading cause of infant death.
12  Pollution could cause changes to weather patterns on a global scale.
13  One Peking factory has had to scale down its workforce from six hundred to only six.
14  They entertain on a large scale.
15  There have been large - scale military manoeuvres on the frontier.