Want to use Pounds correctly in a sentence? These 20 example sentences show the word in context, together with its meaning.
Pounds in a sentence
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Pounds meaning
plural of pound
Example sentences (20)
According to food distribution coordinator Don Teti, 12,000 pounds of food was distributed in the past month.
Added weight sensors help to keep tabs on your cat's weight and can detect cats as small as three pounds.
According to police, Grandjambe is 5'9" tall, weighs 163 pounds, and has black hair and brown eyes.
A construction worker was nabbed on Tuesday with 1,927.77 grams or 4.3 pounds of cocaine hidden in his bag at the Bamia checkpoint.
He chose a high-producing group of cows: 60 pounds of dry matter intake a day producing 100 pounds of milk per day.
For example, a Holstein herd with 100 pounds of milk per cow at 4% fat and 3% protein nets 7 pounds of components.
This story has been corrected to show the amount of plutonium found in the plant ducts was 62 pounds, not 57 pounds.
Participants lost 24 pounds on average, compared with about 20 pounds in the 30 people who were eating as normal.
It is never used to denote pounds weight (lb or lbs is used for this) or pounds sterling (for which "£" is used).
So far, Gates said, the food bank has received 100 pounds of haddock and 150 pounds of hake through the program.
Typical fertilizer application is about 60 pounds of nitrogen per acre at planting and 30-60 pounds after first cutting.
After three months of using MetaLean Complete, however, I’ve dropped a whopping 50 pounds.
He further said the prices dropped to 2,500 pounds at the end of July before rising to 4,500 pounds in October this year.
However, the RadRunner 3 Plus weighs 75.5 pounds, nearly 20 pounds more than the Slice Lite with the Cargo Box installed.
Actually, it was laughably massive, weighing 11 pounds and coming in at 2.1 inches thick.
Individual gold medalists for the Raiders included Jax Hanson at 86 pounds and Holden Jacobs at 106 pounds.
An example is cited where 34 pounds of serpentine was needed to shoot a 47-pound ball, but only 18 pounds of corned powder.
These include two houses — one worth 5 million pounds and the other valued at 4 million pounds — six flats and other assets.
A game of “guess his weight” — dipping as low as 180 pounds — has played out among NFL evaluators, Daniel Jeremiah was telling reporters Friday.
Officials said the dog weighed about 20 pounds, though German shepherds should weigh close to 70 pounds.
Phrases with pounds
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Common combinations with pounds
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- pounds of 56×
- of pounds 35×
- at pounds 25×
- pounds and 23×
- million pounds 23×
- and pounds 16×
- to pounds 15×
- pounds in 14×
- about pounds 12×
- pounds for 10×
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