scale
Example Sentences
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On a scale of one to ten, ten being the worst, that’s a level two.
From Literature
“New York City has not seen a gap of this scale since the Great Recession,” he said, referring to the 2008-09 financial crisis.
Due to all the stress, she shed a lot of the outer scales of her shell, revealing soft ones underneath.
From Los Angeles Times
It might be scaled back, given the frustrations of the players, but it will not disappear.
From BBC
Activists say that the actual toll could be many times higher with an internet shutdown still complicating efforts to confirm information about the scale of the killings.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
