pound|pounds in English

noun

[paʊnd]

unit of weight equal to 16 ounces (equal to 454 grams); unit of apothecary weight equal to 12 ounces; unit of currency; unit of measurement; pound key on a telephone; pen, yard; strike, hit

Use "pound|pounds" in a sentence

1. Adventurer 80GS: dry weight, 1,752 pounds + 11 gallons fresh, 91.7 pounds + 4 gallon full hot water heater, 33.4 pounds + 20-pound full propane tank, 20 pounds + battery, 65 pounds + stuff, 500 pounds = 2,462.1 pounds

2. Typically ten (10) pounds of honey yields one (1) pound of Beeswax

3. A ticket tout offered me a two pound ticket for ten pounds.

4. My original ten - pound shares are now valued at fifteen - five pounds above par.

5. Kid Chocolate gets down to 160.5 pounds, failing to make the 160-pound middleweight limit.

6. Some 200 pounds of bergamots had to be processed to extract just one pound of essence.

7. Yes. I need 2 pounds of ground beef, 5 lamb chops and 1 pound of sausage.

8. A machine for weighing people has a scale from one pound to 300 pounds on it.

9. Using a cutter, 360 pounds of Chaff from nine 40-pound rolls can be deployed in 10 minutes

10. They hit coshed the driver and made off with two and a half million pounds in used five pound notes.

11. Until 1858, many notes were issued denominated in both shillings/pounds and dollars (5 shillings = $1 therefore 1 pound = $4).

12. The silky, or pygmy Anteater weighs only about one pound, while the giant Anteater can be 120 pounds and 7 feet long

13. When they first started farming salmon, it could take as many as six pounds of wild fish to make a single pound of salmon.

14. A block of Aerogel as large as a human may weigh less than a pound yet it can support the weight of 1000 pounds

15. In the process, the total impact energy of both sets of jets is at least 40 X 10?-3¿ horsepower-hour-pounds force/pound mass.

16. Acrylic models can weigh as little as 50 pounds, compared to the approximate 1,000-pound weight of a cast iron tub, says Better Homes and Gardens

17. It takes some 1,400 to 1,700 pounds [650 to 750 kg] (about seven million jasmine flowers) to obtain two pounds [1 kg] of what is called absolute, a very concentrated perfume, costing about $9,000 per pound [$20,000 per kg] in France.

18. A 9-foot-long "cargo" bicycle, featuringadd1a super-stiff 48-pound frame and a wood platform that was able to maneuver Agilely while carrying 400 pounds.

19. I'm not the former No. 1 pound-for-pound fighter.

20. Forty a pound.

21. They cost nine pounds new, three pounds secondhand.

22. If you're converting between pounds and Cups, it's important to remember that the cup is a unit of volume and the pound (lb) is a unit of weight

23. The coal is six pounds underweight / underweight by six pounds.

24. One pound for a bottle of spirits, one pound for a carton of cigarettes.

25. Pound of sugar, please.