Having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles.
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Examples for "scaly "
Examples for "scaly "
1 The slim knife had found a vulnerable spot in the scaly armour.
2 It looked vulnerable in comparison to the scaly upper body, Cody thought.
3 I'm certain our scaly friends will be only too eager to oblige.'
4 I found myself fingering my scaly wrist; I hastily crossed my arms.
5 Target pounded over the scaly ground and thundered into the hard trail.
1 As they neared the forest Ryllik paused and raised a scaley fore-limb, groping after a thought.
2 Old mistress had all the children pick up scaley barks and hickory nuts and chestnuts and walnuts.
3 But the man that would play that low, scaley trick on me is going to suffer for it.
4 "Tastes differ," murmured the dragonette, slowly drooping its scaley eyelids over its yellow eyes, until they looked like half-moons.
1 In neither case, however, was the strength of corticostriatal connections globally scaled .
2 The police said later that emergency services had scaled down their alert.
3 There are also less expensive, scaled - down ways to do family history projects.
4 Capital controls, although gradually scaled back, remained in place for two years.
5 Using Israel for a ladder, in a trice he scaled the wall.
6 Polartec Power Shield Lightweight is a scaled down version of Power Shield.
7 They say the technology can be easily scaled to cover greater distances.
8 A large number of them later scaled the gates of the complex.
9 Firms scaled back investment plans and pointed to little job creation ahead.
10 Walsh said: We have created an entity capable of being scaled up.
11 The deal closed oversubscribed and all the banks' commitments were scaled back.
12 But the US continued its own, scaled - back combat operation, including air strikes.
13 The incentives were scaled back in 2010 and mostly scrapped this year.
14 However, the recovery was better scaled in blocked-order trials than random-order trials.
15 It scaled back production by 13 percent in the first four months.
16 Some suppliers have scaled back their use of such elements, he said.
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scale Verb
Indicative · Past Indefinite
Scaled across language varieties