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grand-scale

[ grand-skeyl ]

adjective

  1. of large proportion, extent, magnitude, etc.:

    grand-scale efforts; a grand-scale approach.



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Word History and Origins

Origin of grand-scale1

First recorded in 1955–60
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Example Sentences

But obida does not have to occur on a grand scale to produce uncomfortable repercussions.

An impressive grand-scale set was constructed complete with a waterfall as the backdrop.

This is action on a grand scale that, despite its grittiness and naturalism, boasts very high production values.

LBJ and Bundy, the Yale-educated Harvard professor, got it wrong on a grand scale.

There was no sense of intimacy or the personal in this presentation, which was on such a grand scale.

Aber Jeder will grossartig spielen heutzutage (But everybody wants to play on a grand scale now-a-days).

These pumping engines were made on such a grand scale that they lifted over sixty tuns of water at every stroke.

"Monsieur Deschars does things on a grand scale," replies Adolphe, taking refuge in a jest.

He was willing to risk fifty thousand ducats in the adventure, which was to be conducted on a grand scale.

But there had been no pitched battle on a grand scale; and it had even begun to seem that there never would be.

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