large-scale
very extensive or encompassing; of great scope: a large-scale business plan.
made to a large scale: a large-scale map.
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How to use large-scale in a sentence
Some of the streets in this part of the town have seen large scale-destruction.
Moreover, trucks, dust, and boomtown stress are the effects of any large-scale industrial activity.
But they are serious: what large-scale fracking does is change small farm towns into industrial sites.
Since June, Israel has conducted two large-scale military operations in the West Bank and Gaza.
There are precious few large-scale, ambitious, original works.
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They refuse war the credit of being the only exercise in devotion on the large scale existing in this world.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonIt is a wood Flute of very large scale, with the mouth on the narrow side of the pipe.
The Recent Revolution in Organ Building | George Laing MillerWhere this work goes on on a large scale, basin-shaped depressions are inevitably formed.
Outlines of the Earth's History | Nathaniel Southgate Shalerlarge-scale housing is primarily for married people with growing families.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.We cannot doubt that the sacrificing of children was practised on a large scale among the Canaanites.
British Dictionary definitions for large-scale
wide-ranging or extensive
(of maps and models) constructed or drawn to a big scale
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