Get to know Kilo better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like kilogram.
Kilo in a sentence
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Kilo meaning
- Clipping of kilogram.
- Alternative letter-case form of Kilo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
Synonyms of Kilo
Using Kilo
- The main meaning on this page is: Clipping of kilogram. | Alternative letter-case form of Kilo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- Useful related words include: kilogram, kg, metric weight unit, weight unit.
- In the example corpus, kilo often appears in combinations such as: per kilo, kilo of, one kilo.
Context around Kilo
- Average sentence length in these examples: 26.7 words
- Position in the sentence: 4 start, 13 middle, 3 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Kilo
- In this selection, "kilo" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 26.7 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, per, 1700, 1000, sports, price and eight stand out and add context to how "kilo" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 31l at kilo but instead and 40mg per kilo of body. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "kilo" sits close to words such as acquittal, alfa and ambani, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with kilo
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
At the time a kilo of cocaine was worth $34,000. (11 words)
Banyali Kilo resident Jean Basiloke said children were among the victims. (11 words)
A kilo of milkfish costs P180 while a kilo of local round is P200. (14 words)
In one of the most devastating episodes, 11 women and children died last month in a crowd crush after hundreds had gathered outside a factory in hopes of getting a 10-kilo bag of flour and $3.50 in cash from a local philanthropist. (44 words)
The NFA Council on Thursday approved a higher buying price range for palay to a range of P23 to P30 per kilo of clean and dry palay, and P17 to P23 a kilo for wet and fresh palay. (38 words)
We’re working hard to get a supply chain for food organized, so we won’t again suffer from the P800 per kilo price of onion, when the farmgate price is less than P50 per kilo. (36 words)
Example sentences (20)
Ever-rising inflation means the basic income barely buys a basket of staples like kilo of meat, 30 eggs, a kilo of sugar and a kilo of onions.
In some cities the word is reserved specifically for a kilo of crack and a ‘bird’ would be used for a kilo of raw powder cocaine.
We’re working hard to get a supply chain for food organized, so we won’t again suffer from the P800 per kilo price of onion, when the farmgate price is less than P50 per kilo.
A kilo of milkfish costs P180 while a kilo of local round is P200.
The NFA Council on Thursday approved a higher buying price range for palay to a range of P23 to P30 per kilo of clean and dry palay, and P17 to P23 a kilo for wet and fresh palay.
No matter what you do to a 1700 kilo sports car, it’ll never handle like a 1000 kilo sports car, it’s just not possible.
A kilo of chicken - the least polluting meat - produces 13.4 kilograms of CO2, while a kilo of the average vegetarian burger produces only 4.1 kilos of CO2.
Raw rubber prices, meanwhile, dropped to only P25 per kilo from a high of almost P100 per kilo eight years ago, forcing farmers to abandon their rubber farms and workers to lose jobs, he added.
Air Traffic Control had told the American Airlines flight to cross 'runway 31L at Kilo' but instead crossed runway 4 Left at Juliet, crossing directly in front of the departing Delta flight.
At the time a kilo of cocaine was worth $34,000.
At the wholesale level, regular milled rice was most expensive in Central Visayas where it averaged P46.57 per kilo in September.
Back in 2014, dry palay was sold at P20 per kilo, while the production cost was at P12.
Banyali Kilo resident Jean Basiloke said children were among the victims.
But, mostly, let us remember the actual price of 40 – 45 pesos-per-kilo available in most markets in the Philippines.
Butter costs 37 percent more than it did a year ago, while the price of a kilo of Estonian cheese has risen by the same amount.
By bringing Kilo onto the force, there are police dog-related costs that the city would not incur, such as the initial purchase and training, Johnston said.
Cathy Estavillo, spokesperson for the National Food Authority’s Bantay Bigas, which monitors rice prices, said the price of palay ranged from P19 to P21 per kilo in some parts of the country.
For the average person weighing 70 kilograms, it would be practically impossible to consume the recommended acceptable daily intake of aspartame (0 to 40mg per kilo of body weight) by drinking Diet Coke alone.
In one of the most devastating episodes, 11 women and children died last month in a crowd crush after hundreds had gathered outside a factory in hopes of getting a 10-kilo bag of flour and $3.50 in cash from a local philanthropist.
In the meat, nothing is special to compare, 78,000 heads of cattle, 7 million kilo tonnes of meat in the company.
Common combinations with kilo
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- per kilo 39×
- kilo of 32×
- one kilo 7×
- kilo in 6×
- of kilo 6×
- the kilo 6×
- kilo for 5×
- for kilo 4×
- kilo or 3×
- kilo and 3×