Using it figuratively: "Director Cecil B. Demille made movies on the largest scale, using huge sets and thousands of extras to create wide-screen spectaculars." "An army is an example of organized human activity on the largest scale." Using it literally: "If you need maps on the largest scale available, ask for the USGS 7.5-minute, 1:24,000-scale quadrangle series." "Formerly, cosmologists knew that stars and galaxies were clustered, but they believed that on the largest scale, the universe was uniform and homogeneous. But since then, they have discovered clustering and structure even on the largest scale."