How to Use full-scale in a Sentence

full-scale

adjective
Definition of full-scalenext
Synonyms for full-scalenext
  • All that changed last year with the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    — Anatoly Kurmanaev, New York Times, 27 June 2023
  • Oleksii Reznikov has gone through more than 550 days of full-scale war.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 4 Sep. 2023
  • The idea triggered a full-scale revolt on the Google campus.
    — David E. Sanger, New York Times, 23 Apr. 2024
  • Since the full-scale invasion, airspace over Ukraine is closed.
    — Cnt Editors, Condé Nast Traveler, 2 May 2024
  • The film follows Lévy on the ground in Ukraine from the first days of Russia’s full-scale invasion.
    — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2023
  • That’s the first year-over-year drop since full-scale production began there in 2020.
    — Jim Cramer, CNBC, 3 Jan. 2025
  • With the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Prigozhin was able and eager to again prove his value to Putin.
    — Richard Engel, NBC News, 25 June 2023
  • On the first day of the full-scale war, Mr. Shevchenko heard explosions soon after waking up.
    — Lydia Tomkiw, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Dec. 2023
  • It wasn’t supposed to happen in Week 18 of the regular season, the Jets on the verge of a full-scale teardown.
    — Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 5 Jan. 2025
  • Yet Putin’s full-scale assault on Ukraine forced far greater soul-searching.
    — Jane Gottlieb, Washington Post, 10 Apr. 2023
  • Based on the evidence, the surge of Newsmax caused a full-scale panic inside of Fox News.
    — Stephen Battaglio, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Feb. 2023
  • It was made in 2021, before Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 1 Apr. 2024
  • This will be the fifth full-scale test flight of Starship but the first time SpaceX attempts such a maneuver on the program.
    — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 26 Sep. 2024
  • Russia seized Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 and used it as one of the launchpads for its full-scale invasion last year.
    — Reuters, NBC News, 3 May 2023
  • Both schools feed into Hoover High School, which also got a full-scale makeover in recent years.
    — Kristen Taketa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2023
  • Mariupol was the closest Putin has come to the front lines since the start of the full-scale invasion in February 2022.
    — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2023
  • China and India even fought a short but full-scale war in 1962, which was followed by a half-hearted truce.
    — Niharika Sharma, Quartz, 5 Apr. 2023
  • Now, thanks to years of drought and the effects of climate change, the usual river deficit has grown into a full-scale crisis.
    — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 15 June 2023
  • Unilever has been under pressure to leave Russia in the wake of the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, now in its third year.
    — Dasha Afanasieva, Fortune Europe, 16 May 2024
  • Their work was judged by a panel, and the teams who were chosen will build and demonstrate full-scale food technologies over the next year in Phase 3 of the challenge.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 31 May 2023
  • So, the full-scale entry into the U.S. market comes with milestones attached.
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2023
  • While there’s a full-scale home office, the new owners will want to enjoy the outside patio space nightly.
    — Michelle Deal-Zimmerman, Baltimore Sun, 24 Aug. 2023
  • Since the start of the full-scale invasion, the police have opened more than 8,000 cases on draft dodging, their press service told ABC News.
    — Yulia Drozd, ABC News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The feel-good moment came about halfway through the first full-scale training camp practice for the Denver Broncos of the Sean Payton era.
    — Jarrett Bell, USA TODAY, 29 July 2023
  • In April, Iran and Israel came to blows but ultimately avoided a full-scale war.
    — Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The country plunged into a full-scale civil war as the protests turned into an armed rebellion.
    — Mostafa Salem and Eyad Kourdi, CNN, 5 Dec. 2024
  • The second is a full-scale replica of a Lalibela Church doorway, made of 27 tons of sandstone and standing 12 feet tall.
    — Zachary Smith, cleveland, 25 Aug. 2023
  • In Ukraine’s second-largest city, May was the toughest month on record since Russia’s full-scale invasion more than two years ago.
    — Laurel Chor, NPR, 21 June 2024
  • One of the Kremlin's key focuses in its full-scale invasion, which began in February 2022, has been to capture Ukraine's Donbas region.
    — Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 7 Jan. 2025
  • Just keep in mind that complicated modern Windows apps still require full-scale emulation.
    — Edward Mendelson, PCMAG, 6 Jan. 2025

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