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Example sentences for "scaled"

Lexicographically close words:
scalded; scaldic; scalding; scalds; scale; scaleless; scalelike; scalene; scaler; scalery
  1. Then Koolotah and his team scaled the obstruction.

  2. She next scaled the rocky face of a precipice to gain time--the rocks cut her face and hands.

  3. Pile by pile they scaled the logs, Charley using the log-rule under Mr. Marlin's close observation, while the forester himself kept tally.

  4. As he scaled pile after pile of logs, he worked faster and faster, acquiring greater facility with every measurement.

  5. There was no sound of any explosion, but green spears of light struck at the scaled bodies plunging in the water.

  6. His head was bare except for a broad, scaled band running from the nape of his neck to the mid-point of his forehead, a band supporting a sharply serrated crest not unlike the erect fin of some Terran fish.

  7. Then he peeled off his armor, peeled it literally indeed, catching the lower edge of the scaled covering with his hands and pulling it up and over his head and shoulders as one might skin off a knitted garment.

  8. The swaying dragon head paused, held rigid on a stiff, scaled column in the center of the saucer.

  9. Do you think, O blue-eyed banditti, Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old moustache as I am Is not a match for you all!

  10. I advise that your armies pause awhile with the prestige of having scaled the Balkans.

  11. Stealing into the alley, Nick quickly scaled the high, wooden fence, crossed two adjoining back yards, and thus reached a wall near the stable mentioned.

  12. It doesn't look much as if our quarry was there," observed Chick, as they scaled the fence.

  13. The prevalent timber is gigantic, and scaled by climbing Leguminosae, as Bauhinias and Robinias, which sometimes sheath the trunks, or span the forest with huge cables, joining tree to tree.

  14. They marched and never halted, They scaled the parapet, The triple lines assaulted, And paid without regret The final debt.

  15. Because you have scaled the wall, Such an old mustache as I am Is not a match for you all?

  16. They scaled the wall wherever they first found it, and advanced through the grounds towards the hall, scaring the deer with the unwonted invasion.

  17. The steepness and height of the rock above utterly precluded the possibility of his having scaled it.

  18. This was immediately scaled by a party of the Portuguese, who opened the gate for the rest, who now rushed into the large outer court.

  19. Albuquerque then attacked Genial in his fort, which was scaled and the gate broke open; yet the usurper and thirty men valiantly defended a tower over the gateway, till Genial was slain by a musket-shot, on which the others immediately fled.

  20. But De Cunna and Albuquerque landed their troops next day in two bodies, in spite of every opposition from showers of arrows, darts, and stones, and scaled the walls, routing the Moors with prodigious slaughter.

  21. They hastily scaled the railings around the burial-ground, and proceeded to the very door from which the body-snatchers had emerged an hour previously.

  22. By the aid of the Resurrection Man and the burglar, the youth scaled the wall of the Palace Gardens, and ere he dropped upon the inner side, he said in a low but firm tone, "Good night.

  23. The surgeon and the body-snatchers then scaled the railing, and in a few moments stood in the churchyard.

  24. Vye snapped the bulb out of the water just as a nightmarish, armored head arose on a whiplash of coiled, scaled neck, and a blunt nose thudded against the tree trunk with a hollow boom.

  25. The only covering on his bare, brown self was a wide, scaled belt and a loin cloth.

  26. Harvey then held a whispered conversation with his companions, during which it was decided that the barricade should be scaled near the gate, and the dog silenced, if possible, in the manner Jet settled the other one.

  27. He saw flying things dart among the tree-fern fronds, and some were scaled and some were not, but none of them were feathered.

  28. Its body, though scaled and warty, was flabby and soft.

  29. They have evidently learned that you scaled the wall and are in quest of you!

  30. He turned from her and ran to the wall, scaled it with the agility of a cat and vanished.

  31. But for the present, wishing to turn the help of the men of Oeum to good account, he waited down in the village; and so the invading Arcadians scaled the heights in a body.

  32. Had he done so, not a man, it is believed, would have scaled the passes there.

  33. The centre of the citadel was speedily deserted; for the enemy scaled the walls and towers, and showered blows and missiles upon the citizens below.

  34. Or, reading {oi anabebekotes}, "who had scaled the height.

  35. Following close upon their heels, however, their foes scaled the temple, tore off the roof, and began striking them down with the tiles.

  36. He therefore crossed in the night, selecting a desert point on the Abydene coast, from which he scaled the hills above the town and planted himself in ambuscade within their folds.

  37. Beneath, it is of a paler yellowish brown, scaled and banded with narrow dusky markings.

  38. The throat and breast are scaled with broad flat feathers of an intense golden hue, changing to green and blue tints in certain lights.

  39. The ground colour of the plumage is intense black, but with beautiful bronze reflections on the neck, and the whole head scaled with feathers of brilliant metallic green and blue.

  40. Peter looked towards the star that last night had been the beacon towards which he and Judith had scaled the heights.

  41. Sea-dog is depicted like a talbot in shape, but with the tail like that of a beaver, the feet webbed and the whole body scaled like a fish, a scalloped fin continued along the back from the head to the tail.

  42. A hydra, wings endorsed vert, scaled or, is the crest of Barret of Avely, Essex.

  43. Baron Stourton has two such beasts, sable, scaled or, for his supporters.

  44. That formidable barrier was not scaled by civilized men until modern times, when European settlement had already reached the Mississippi from the east, and science had stepped in to assist the explorers.

  45. One hundred and seven years before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, Balboa scaled the continental backbone at Darien (1513), and in the name of Spain claimed dominion over the waters of the Pacific.

  46. He scaled the walls of the fortress, and sprung down alone amid the surprised garrison, though speedily followed by numbers of his men.

  47. But he had now to encounter a General who had braved the snows of Camden, had scaled the walls of Quebec, and had faced the legions of Burgoyne.

  48. They could be scaled by means of tall ladders, especially in a stealthy night attack.

  49. The enemy waded the river, however, and scaled the wall on its further bank; and in the fierce lance and sword fight the host of Caratacus lost the day.

  50. They were engaged in gauging its rate of advance by pine laths scaled to inches.

  51. The weight of these when scaled and cleaned would be reduced by at least one-fourth, leaving about two hundred and fifty pounds of choice fish.

  52. He proceeded, under the direction of the exchange, to scale logs that had already been scaled by Hospes.

  53. The surveyor general of the First district claimed entire jurisdiction and scaled the logs irrespective of the state in which they were cut.


  54. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scaled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.