How to Use large-scale in a Sentence
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The large-scale work is drawn in thick, simple lines filled with white chalk.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Jan. 2024
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The doctors' groups plan to keep the pressure up, and have scheduled large-scale protests for the weekend.
—Anthony Kuhn, NPR, 1 Mar. 2024
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The problem is that there are just too many of these large-scale encounters.
—Brandon Widder, The Verge, 14 June 2023
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The large-scale search had one goal: find and identify a specific type of lizard.
—Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 27 Jan. 2024
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Option 2: Volunteer to help build or work for a large-scale art project or large-theme camp.
—Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee, 25 Jan. 2024
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The people also suggested that more large-scale events might come in the fall, as the primary race heats up.
—Shane Goldmacher, BostonGlobe.com, 25 June 2023
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Michael also had a vision that was both large-scale when the movie called for it and intimate and touching when the movie needed it.
—Elizabeth Raposo, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Jan. 2024
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Our country could very well lose a large-scale war for lack of weapons and ammunition—but not because of aid to Ukraine.
—Kori Schake, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2023
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Tech leads like Ivan play a huge role in large-scale project success as the tech industry rapidly expands.
—Tyler Shepherd, USA TODAY, 20 Apr. 2024
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The incident is only the latest example of large-scale food theft in the United States.
—Annabelle Timsit, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2023
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This marks the second time in recent weeks that Em has made a surprise appearance during a large-scale event.
—Mitchell Peters, Billboard, 30 July 2023
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Though efforts to address the problem have fallen short of achieving large-scale change, Baltimore has long been ahead of the curve.
—Lea Skene, Anchorage Daily News, 12 June 2023
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Other works will include large-scale portraits with the intent to have viewers in an escapist realm.
—Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 8 Apr. 2024
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Multiple large-scale studies have found that vaccines are safe.
—Nicholas Rice, Peoplemag, 17 Dec. 2023
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The mid-1800s brought large-scale urbanization to the area, culminating in the York Railway Station.
—Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 May 2024
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This could cause some permitting costs on large-scale projects to triple, depending on the duration of the shoot and the number of shooting locations.
—Winston Cho, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Oct. 2023
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Mundell and her colleagues emphasized the space telescope’s potential for studying the large-scale structure of the universe.
—WIRED, 7 Nov. 2023
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Typically, a large-scale remodel includes a change in the size and layout of the kitchen and/or electrical and plumbing work.
—Michele Lerner, wsj.com, 15 Sep. 2023
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For this reason, Aquarians are likely to be drawn to sustainable home decor this year, a large-scale trend that's impacting the design world in many ways.
—Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 27 Mar. 2024
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An album on vinyl is a beautiful thing, given a strong identity by its large-scale artwork.
—Jazz Monroe, Pitchfork, 28 Feb. 2024
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This company houses large-scale, high-end productions and is fully booked year-round.
—Taylor McIntyre, Travel + Leisure, 13 Jan. 2024
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The large-scale society appeared to flourish up until the arrival of Europeans in the late 18th century.
—Brendan Rascius, Miami Herald, 18 Apr. 2024
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In this case, the conflict is between large-scale farms on one side and environmental and fishery interests on the other.
—Michael Hiltzik, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
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In the past, developers might only have focused on several large-scale power plants at a time.
—Justine Calma, The Verge, 28 July 2023
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For decades, their collective of communities have fought off large-scale mining and waged long legal battles to halt projects.
—Megan Janetsky, Victor R. Caivano and Rodrigo Abd, Quartz, 13 Mar. 2024
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Myriads of miniature jets, then, might combine into a large-scale process that transfers charged particles away from the star and out toward the planets.
—Rahul Rao, Popular Science, 24 Aug. 2023
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Cities with lots of Irish immigrants staged large-scale celebrations.
—Dina Kaur, The Arizona Republic, 1 Mar. 2024
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Because of his innovations, the large-scale use of technology to smoothly move and shift scenery on stages became the standard in live theater.
—Etan Vlessing, The Hollywood Reporter, 30 May 2023
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Image After the rise of installation art in the ’80s and ’90s, large-scale installations have become a mainstay.
—Martha Schwendener, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
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Only a mere few years ago, such a large-scale world tour, bringing together thousands of people, was hard to imagine happening again.
—André-Naquian Wheeler, Vogue, 13 June 2023
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