sizing
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“We’re ants, we’re nothing,” I remember him saying, sizing up the state of the American left.
From Slate ● Aug. 7, 2026
Beyond staying true to the characters and the time period, Eyrich and Marsh had to consider a few practical elements: the disparities in vintage sizing, for one, plus the horror of it all.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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
Ronaldo stood over the ball and began sizing it up.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
I didn’t even realize Iran used a different shoe sizing system.
From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram
I'm sure they have large numerations of sizings and shapings.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Sizars at Cambridge are properly students in receipt of certain allowances called sizings.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
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
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
