tonnage
Example Sentences
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Given the sheer tonnage of Russian machinery still at the launchpad, it appears there is an enormous job ahead.
From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026
Global air-cargo volumes are expected to grow at a low-single-digit percentage pace in 2026, he says, supporting his forecast of a high-single-digit increase in SATS’s tonnage, driven by market-share gains.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 14, 2026
“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
Shawn was the only person I had ever seen stand up to Dad, the only one whose force of mind, whose sheer tonnage of conviction, could make Dad give way.
From "Educated" by Tara Westover
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
