tonnage

How to use tonnage in a sentence

The exact tonnage of the San Gabriel Mountains, which frame Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine, has never been measured.

The tonnage entered in Philippine ports shows a rapid annual increase in five years.

Old and new measurements, tonnage, time allowances and movable ballast, are all a sealed book to me.

These vessels, indeed, were of no considerable tonnage; but I confess myself at a loss to guess their object.

This was owing to there still being a tonnage class, A, B and C, the new rating and the length classes.

The object of handicaps is to get sport amongst craft of varied tonnage, class, and build, by giving time allowance.

From that day to this there has never been such a meeting of so many first-class large racing yachts, showing so great a tonnage.

The fleet belonging to the club in the year 1857 numbered 56 yachts, mostly of very small tonnage.

Of course the tonnage of the craft varies; the above measurements are those of a medium-sized one.

The Royal Yacht Squadron's fine class of schooners and vessels of large tonnage, however, created and revived rivalry.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985