SCALED in a Sentence

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For SCALED, below is one of 120 sentences:
As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible.

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 Meanings and Examples of SCALED
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
scaled
 a.  used of armor; covered with scales, or scale like structures, as fish or reptile
Classic Sentence: (79 in 6 pages)
1  As she uttered this exclamation, her eyes fell upon a corner of the garden, where traces of the wall having been scaled were visible.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER XII—THE BISHOP WORKS
2  As they had no ladders, the French scaled it with their nails.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER II—HOUGOMONT
3  He had scaled the wall of the garden which formed the angle of the Rue Polonceau.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 8: CHAPTER I—WHICH TREATS OF THE MANNER OF ENTERING A CONVEN...
4  The little barricade of the Mondetour lane can be scaled.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XVIII—THE VULTURE BECOME PREY
5  The barricade once scaled had a mane of lightning flashes.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
6  The barricade was ten times attacked, approached, assailed, scaled, and never captured.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XXI—THE HEROES
7  All the framework was black with time, and from the iron the paint had mostly scaled away.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
8  To-night the pressure of accumulated misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
9  After all, he had only done what Frank had done on a small scale.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
10  But perhaps you will make enough money to get into bribery on a large scale some day.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLIII
11  Farmers coming in with sled-loads of wheat complained that Champ could not read the scale, that he seemed always to be watching some one back in the darkness of the bins.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXV
12  Of the Right Whale, the best outline pictures are in Scoresby; but they are drawn on too small a scale to convey a desirable impression.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and...
13  It might get noised about that the Pontelliers had met with reverses, and were forced to conduct their menage on a humbler scale than heretofore.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
14  There was with her a feeling of having descended in the social scale, with a corresponding sense of having risen in the spiritual.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXXII
15  Then Jokubas pointed out the place where the cattle were driven to be weighed, upon a great scale that would weigh a hundred thousand pounds at once and record it automatically.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 3
Example Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
16  The architect had produced a scale model of the proposed shopping complex.
17  Unlike the American, the British press operates on a national scale.
18  The research was carried out on a modest scale.
19  His rapid ascent in the social scale was surprising.
20  The story is about theft, fraud and deceit on an incredible scale.
21  The scale on the surface of the kettle has sloughed off.
22  Some teenagers are just a nuisance, but at the other end of the scale there are kids who pose a real threat.
23  According to new research rapid and large scale loss of natural habitats has already affected biodiversity in the area and urgent conservation efforts are now needed.
24  Now the Gates Foundation hopes that its funding will help co-ordinate large scale collaborative projects that can crack the major scientific problems.
25  The volume of unconventional gas isn't significant on a U. K. wide scale, supplying enough electricity for only 1,200 homes, but the potential is there, analysts say.
26  We scale the model to be one tenth of actual size.
27  The Richter scale is a measurement of seismic disturbances.
28  Tiny and delicate, the model was built on a lilliputian scale.
29  Write a report that investigates the impact of the heat island on urban climatic conditions and the potential for larger scale or even global impacts.
30  Plate tectonics is a theory of geology that has been developed to explain the observed evidence for large scale motions of the Earth's lithosphere.