How to Use full-scale in a Sentence

full-scale

adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • By one estimate, Nvidia and CoreWeave’s 11-minute record-setting training time would scale up to about two days of full-scale training.
    IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2023
  • The crisis of confidence in the UN has been building since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    Richard Gowan, Foreign Affairs, 9 Nov. 2023
  • And while gourmands will have to wait quite a bit longer to try his full-scale restaurant, Prélude is a welcome appetizer.
    Tori Latham, Robb Report, 2 May 2024
  • That occurred in May, for war crimes in connection with Russia’s nearly 3-year-old full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
    Laura King, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2024
  • When Russia launched its full-scale invasion in 2022, Ukraine's traditional air force was, and is, no match for Russia.
    Greg Myre, NPR, 21 Nov. 2024

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