pound
Example Sentences
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"Yet everybody just makes pennies on the pound."
From Barron's
With the hip replacements, he’s limber enough to climb into the large machinery needed to harvest crops, spray pesticides, plant seeds and move hay bales that weigh roughly 1,000 pounds each.
It was a work phone with a small touch screen, email and fax capabilities and a scheduler; it weighed a full pound.
He’ll be competing in perhaps the toughest weight class in the state — 120 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times
His outfit collects a million pounds of waste a month from hotels, stadiums, and grocery stores, turns it to fertilizer inside 53-foot machines just south of Los Angeles, and drops it off at family farms.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
