Sentence examples for scales- from inspiring English sources

Weight Watchers recommends that you weigh yourself once a week, while some dieting sites suggest throwing away your scales so as not to become demoralised.

It may be that the most serious dieters are the ones who keep hopping on the scales because they like what they see.

Pay scales for doctors and dentists are different to the rest of the NHS, and vary according to which country they work in – England, Wales or Scotland.

And before they know it Boxing Day arrives, they have not trained for two weeks, and the scales are showing they have gained an extra five or six pounds.

Interestingly, as the numbers on the scales have fallen I have sensed a newfound respect and curiosity emerging from my peers.

When the officer grabbed his weighing scales, his most expensive piece of equipment, without which he could not conduct any business, the young man broke down.

It scales up to include smart cities – think of connected traffic signals that monitor utility use, or smart bins that signal when they need to be emptied – and industry, with connected sensors for everything from tracking parts to monitoring crops.

Not only did the wage scales and our standard of living seem to promise riches to the poor immigrant, but the extent and natural wealth of the continent awaiting exploitation offered to Americans of the older stocks such opportunities for rapid fortunes that the making of money and the enjoying of what money could buy too often became our ideal of a full and satisfying life.

"The suggestion that the scales were lifted from our eyes is wrong," he said.

To grasp our place in things requires looking at the smallest and the grandest of scales from the sub­atomic to deep space and beyond.In 2015 the largest scientific instrument in history returns to active service after a major overhaul.

Those mechanisms that can plausibly be called into play at larger scales such as the way that transpiration through leaves recycles water to the air, allowing the same moisture to fall as rain repeatedly seem unlikely to apply on Ascension.