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8 sentences with 'scale'

Example sentences and phrases with the word scale and other words derived from it.


• « To find out the weight of things, you must use a scale. »
scale: To find out the weight of things, you must use a scale.
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• « Standing armies were almost non-existent and wars tended to be fairly limited in scale as a result. »
• « Pyramids on the scale of the Old Kingdom would have been almost impossible anywhere else in the world at that time. »
• « In the autumn of 1914 the scale of the battles grew to surpass anything Europe had witnessed since the Napoleonic Wars (soon to be dwarfed). »
• « Slavery shaped the demography and culture of all American societies, and its sheer scale dwarfs any other pattern of slavery in world history. »
• « The Greek intellectual legacy was enthusiastically taken up by the Romans and combined with unprecedented organisation and engineering on a scale the Greeks had never imagined, not even under Alexander the Great. »
• « In Asia, something comparable happened, but on an even larger scale. In 1853, in the quintessential example of "gunboat diplomacy", a US naval admiral, Matthew Perry, forced Japan to sign a treaty opening it to contact with the West through thinly-veiled threats. »
• « The scale of that violence on a global scale far exceeded any of the relatively petty disputes that had constituted European warfare itself up to that point - the only European war to approach the level of bloodshed caused by imperialism was probably the Thirty Years' War of the 17th century, but imperialism's death toll was far greater still. »

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