tonnage

Example Sentences

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Counterintuitively, electrifying long routes would be harder for small ships, because they carry less tonnage for their size.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

Excluding China’s launches and SpaceX’s share is closer to 70%, and the tonnage it can deliver to space exceeds that figure.

From Barron's • Dec. 15, 2025

“These are still small steps in tonnage, but giant strides in independence,” Innes observed.

From MarketWatch • Oct. 17, 2025

But her actions, however necessary, left behind a tonnage of human wreckage.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

This addition of tonnage and weaponry was not, however, the main outcome of this second refitting.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler