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How to use scale in a sentence

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For anyone trying to slim down, a body-fat test is a better way to monitor progress than the scale is.
Perhaps because the original inspiration for the silhouettes lies in book-size illustrations, the modest scale suits these works perfectly.
Diagnosis therefore relies on mycological analysis of scalp scale and broken off infected hairs.
If not an error on the same scale as Ballantyne's famous unhusked coconuts, the translucent Pacific water is clearly a high-order inaccuracy.
Nationals are taxed on a sliding scale with a maximum taxable rate of 25 per cent.
While operatic in scale, everything in Anderson's screenplay has a natural ebb and flow to it.
Such equine luxury did not reach down the scale to farms and smallholdings, whose buildings are familiar from George Morland's paintings.
Much of these vegetal forms were cast in iron or blown into glass moulds on an industrial scale.
Secondly they provided a conduit through which investment on a hitherto unprecedented scale could be mobilized.
As you go higher up the scale you narrow and decrease the scope of your knowledge until you know an enormous amount about very little.
In 1975, Ireland had a sliding scale scheme for tax and royalties on oil and gas discovered in Irish waters.
He believes what's needed is a sliding scale of road pricing with charges varying according to journey times.
The rate applies on a sliding scale and ranges from 7.65 per cent to 34 per cent.
Transfer tax is imposed on a sliding scale for private transfers and usually works out at 7.5 per cent.
It charges corporate income tax on a sliding scale, dependent upon a company's in-state sales.
A unidimensional scale or a single dimension of a multidimensional scale should consist of a set of items that correlate well with each other.
Each item is rated on a 5-point scale, and responses are summed to produce a total self-esteem score.
Given the ungraciousness of this approach, the response from Sargent was on the lower end of the nuclear scale.
The ungraspable scale of war's toll is depicted through the struggle of one 15-year-old girl.
She suggested that we scale the cliff in the regular way using mountain-climbing equipment.
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Examples from Classical Literature
To judge by the little which the traveller is permitted to see, this establishment is on the vastest scale and perfectly managed.
As the latter is due to finger-reckoning, so the use of the fingers and the toes produced a vigesimal scale.
This was the little church of Saint vitus, a perfect example of the genuine Byzantine arrangement on a very small scale.
The flat bar which carries the nonius scale and index-glass of a quadrant, octant, quintant, or sextant.
In other cases the scale of wages paid to the men is so very low that the woman has to come to the rescue as a wage earner.
He mentioned a change in the wage scale, with bonuses to all foremen and rollers.
But it is more likely that the wage scale will be readjusted from time to time and the explosion forestalled.
In the down-town laundries, where the wage scale runs lower, the amount is usually inadequate for the barest need.
But he proves his insincerity by adjusting his wage scale on the estimate that the guests will pass money to his employees!
At first no wage scale was set, the arrangement being that the farmer should pay what the boy was worth.
He did not like the wage scale that they paid him, not only for him but for people that were engaged in the same line of work.
I was a factor in the wage scale adjustments of the Trolleymen's Union for two years.
Can you imagine how much money one of them aviators over in the old country ought to draw under such a wage scale?
What raised the warfare of Pius into grandeur was the scale upon which he warred.
At the other end of the scale is the optic artist, the painter and sculptor.
The ordinate is the correction to be added to the observed reading to reduce to a uniform scale.
A well-played scale is a truly beautiful thing, but few people play them well because they do not practice them enough.
They form a refinement in chromatics based, as at present appears, on the whole-tone scale.
William of wykeham's College had other marked features besides its magnificent scale.
Between that garden and these grounds there is but a paling, which we can easily scale.
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