How To Use Size up In A Sentence

  • He planned to take a quick peek and size up the situation.
  • Their faces appeared intense, their eyes moving constantly as if to size up their surroundings.
  • Going to trade fairs is an ideal opportunity to size up the competition.
  • A quart is the next size up and is 1/4 ( "quart" like "quarter") of a gallon, or four cups. Wired Campus
  • We must size up the situation before we decide what to do.
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  • This should give you ample opportunity to size up their prospects. Times, Sunday Times
  • The apartment blocks will range in size up to a maximum of four storeys above courtyard level, and the first phase of units will be ready for occupation within a year.
  • Going to trade fairs is an ideal opportunity to size up the competition.
  • We must size up the situation before we decide what to do.
  • Larsson threatened to bring off a king-size upset when he took the match into a fifth and deciding set after taking a fourth-set tiebreaker.
  • This should give you ample opportunity to size up their prospects. Times, Sunday Times
  • I would have to try them again in at least a half size up, but I noticed there were no 6.5s, or at least not that I saw.
  • This should give you ample opportunity to size up their prospects. Times, Sunday Times
  • Another tip: I like to go a size up in a sleeveless romper, for a longer waist and baggier fit—like the black-and-white, tribal-print, zip-front romper I bought this year at Forever 21. Getting Out of a Jeans Rut
  • This was to be a recon, designed to let them size up their opponent and plan an attack.
  • The craftspeople construct everything in small scale and the houses range in size up to palaces which can cost as much as a full-sized house.
  • This observer never saw a'size up " conducted by any responding staff member.
  • In international football it is sometimes dangerous to size up people on the basis of their club record or appearances. Times, Sunday Times
  • The craftspeople construct everything in small scale and the houses range in size up to palaces which can cost as much as a full-sized house.
  • When you size up a bunch of aldermen or a new legislature, just remember the simple little fact of natural history that a "bumble" bee is always biggest right after it's hatched. Tattlings of a Retired Politician
  • Now, every time I go to a movie, I size up each audience member as a potential threat (like some of us do on airplanes), and plot my seating choice with the calculated effort of a chessmaster (behind talkers, in front of single patrons, far from teenagers, outside the seat-kicking distance of little kids). Joel Schwartzberg: Who Thinks It's Okay to Text & Tweet During Movies?
  • We must size up the situation before we decide what to do.
  • Going to trade fairs is an ideal opportunity to size up the competition.
  • She doesn't size up to my expectations.
  • The trainees got to sail the boats with time spent as crew, helm, flying the spinnaker, and some ‘lucky’ few even got to see a capsize up close.
  • Going to trade fairs is an ideal opportunity to size up the competition.
  • Dual graduate couples have the highest fertility of all, if family size up to four children only is considered.
  • It was made up of rocks ranging from fist size up to giant boulders, tumbled haphazardly, their sharp edges unweathered in the still air. The Beast That Resembles A Poem(A Handy Resource for Architects,Engineers, and Students)
  • Going to trade fairs is an ideal opportunity to size up the competition.
  • The incontinent man so fails because he has failed to cultivate the appropriate virtues that would enable him to size up the situation correctly (synesis) and deliberate well about it Medieval Theories of Conscience
  • Thus, the manager is able to size up the situation instantly and act accordingly.

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