How to Use downscale in a Sentence

downscale

1 of 2 verb

• The festival will have to be downscaled this year.
• While games would usually start at crisp HD resolutions, the image would sometime downscale very noticeably in the middle of play, resulting in grainy textures and washed out colors.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
• The decision to downscale the mass vaccination sites was made given overall statewide progress on vaccinations, the governor’s office said.
  — Fernando Alfonso Iii, CNN, 19 June 2021
• Conservationists have been fighting for several years to downscale the project proposal, and would ultimately like the creek returned to its natural state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
• In 2021, even as safety precautions are lifted, couples are continuing to intentionally downscale their celebrations.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2021
• The festival will have to be downscaled this year.
• While games would usually start at crisp HD resolutions, the image would sometime downscale very noticeably in the middle of play, resulting in grainy textures and washed out colors.
  — Kyle Orland, Ars Technica, 18 Oct. 2019
• The decision to downscale the mass vaccination sites was made given overall statewide progress on vaccinations, the governor’s office said.
  — Fernando Alfonso Iii, CNN, 19 June 2021
• Conservationists have been fighting for several years to downscale the project proposal, and would ultimately like the creek returned to its natural state.
  — Los Angeles Times, 16 June 2021
• In 2021, even as safety precautions are lifted, couples are continuing to intentionally downscale their celebrations.
  — Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 29 June 2021

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downscale

2 of 2 adjective

• The company aims to reach a more downscale market with its new stores.
• On other issues, Trump has been able to hide his betrayals of the party’s downscale wing in hollow rhetoric.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Oct. 2017
• These promises played a crucial role in helping attract downscale Democrats in the Midwest who had voted for Obama but now saw Trump as the economic populist candidate.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Dec. 2017
• Across the country, brides-to-be have had to cancel, postpone or downscale wedding celebrations out of coronavirus safety precautions and stay-at-home orders.
  — NBC News, 17 May 2020
• It’s hard to consider a restaurant an upstart nine years into its tenure, but crossover success remains elusive for Hue Gourmet, which routinely is passed over by those who find the food too unfamiliar or the surroundings too downscale.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 10 July 2019
• Williamson has earned praise for attacking the conservative fetishization of downscale white culture, but his underlying argument is not original.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Oct. 2017
• Its prices are decidedly downscale, but its ingredient list is impressive.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• And so that was about shifting Democrats from basically going after downscale manufacturing workers to working women who were leaving their kids, and for whom really there’d been almost no policy or politics up until that point.
  — Elizabeth Crane, Recode, 18 May 2018
• Our team of scientists, however, has developed a geographic and statistical model to downscale national opinion results to the state, congressional district, and county levels.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020
• The company aims to reach a more downscale market with its new stores.
• On other issues, Trump has been able to hide his betrayals of the party’s downscale wing in hollow rhetoric.
  — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 26 Oct. 2017
• These promises played a crucial role in helping attract downscale Democrats in the Midwest who had voted for Obama but now saw Trump as the economic populist candidate.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 17 Dec. 2017
• Across the country, brides-to-be have had to cancel, postpone or downscale wedding celebrations out of coronavirus safety precautions and stay-at-home orders.
  — NBC News, 17 May 2020
• It’s hard to consider a restaurant an upstart nine years into its tenure, but crossover success remains elusive for Hue Gourmet, which routinely is passed over by those who find the food too unfamiliar or the surroundings too downscale.
  — Dominic Armato, azcentral, 10 July 2019
• Williamson has earned praise for attacking the conservative fetishization of downscale white culture, but his underlying argument is not original.
  — Sarah Jones, New Republic, 25 Oct. 2017
• Its prices are decidedly downscale, but its ingredient list is impressive.
  — Andy Staples, SI.com, 30 June 2017
• And so that was about shifting Democrats from basically going after downscale manufacturing workers to working women who were leaving their kids, and for whom really there’d been almost no policy or politics up until that point.
  — Elizabeth Crane, Recode, 18 May 2018
• Our team of scientists, however, has developed a geographic and statistical model to downscale national opinion results to the state, congressional district, and county levels.
  — Paul Douglas, Star Tribune, 24 Sep. 2020

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