sizing

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

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

Only in the final act does Scott bring Washington and Crowe together and the confrontation we’ve waited for turns out to be two formidable men sitting across a table, sizing each other up.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 20, 2026

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

From Slate ● Aug. 7, 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

As it was, I circled the toilet, studying it like a Klingon Warrior sizing up his enemy.

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

England can boast few keener, better-qualified critics than that admirable woman, Mrs. Barbauld, or, not to dock her of her accustomed sizings, Mrs. Anna Lætitia Barbauld.

From Res Judicat? Papers and Essays by Augustine Birrell

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

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

According to the former of these gentlemen, who graduated in 1746, the "breakfast was two sizings of bread and a cue of beer"; and "evening commons were a pye."

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