sizing

Bring it up too early and it can sound like you're sizing up their bank balance.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

“We’re ants, we’re nothing,” I remember him saying, sizing up the state of the American left.

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026

Tadeh Ghazalian, owner of Dialog, was still sizing up the damage to his restaurant the other day.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 25, 2026

Online shopping, says Charlotte, “is something I avoid, especially as I get older — I just don’t have the patience to decode the sizing differences of four different brands selling basically the same shirt.”

From Salon ● Jul. 18, 2026

"He don't look like he skate," Pia said, sizing Stevie up.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds

I'm sure they have large numerations of sizings and shapings.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dr. Holyoke, who graduated in 1746, says, the "breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue of beer."

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

Along the wall you see two tables, which, though less carefully provided than the Fellows', are still served with tolerable decency, and go through a regular second course instead of the "sizings."

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall

For the mere cup and trencher, we no doubt Fared passing well; but as for merriment10 And sport, without which salt and sauces season The cheer but scantily, our sizings were Even of the narrowest.

From The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry by Ernest Hartley Coleridge

If any one wished for more than was provided, he was obliged to size it, i.e. order from the kitchen or buttery, and this was charged as extra commons or sizings in the quarter-bill.

From A Collection of College Words and Customs by Benjamin Homer Hall