POUND in a Sentence

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233 example sentences for POUND, such as:

1. If you do it well, a pound, my dear.
2. It might have been twenty thousand pound.
3. I'll pound it, that Barney's managing properly.
4. I've been setting aside a few pounds each week.
5. 'Three pound ten,' repeated Mr. Limbkins, firmly.

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 Meanings and Examples of POUND
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pound
 n.  a unit of weight in general use equal to 16 oz, 0.4536 kg
 v.  strike heavily and repeatedly
Classic Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  It might have been twenty thousand pound.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
2  And notwithstanding a offered reward of ten pound, which was afterwards increased to twenty pound.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
3  'I should say, three pound ten was plenty,' said Mr. Limbkins.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
4  Say four pound, and you've got rid of him for good and all.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
5  'Three pound ten,' repeated Mr. Limbkins, firmly.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
6  If there's anything queer about him when we once get into the work; in for a penny, in for a pound.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
7  Why here's one man that, in consideration of his wife and large family, has a quartern loaf and a good pound of cheese, full weight.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
8  As he wouldn't go away, and shocked the company very much, our overseer sent him out a pound of potatoes and half a pint of oatmeal.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  I'll pound it, that Barney's managing properly.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
10  I sold myself,' said Mr. Bumble, pursuing the same train of relection, 'for six teaspoons, a pair of sugar-tongs, and a milk-pot; with a small quantity of second-hand furniture, and twenty pound in money.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
11  If you do it well, a pound, my dear.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
12  One pound, said Fagin, wishing to interest him in the scent as much as possible.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLV
13  Cotton is at seventy-two cents a pound already.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
14  Beef, pork and butter cost thirty-five dollars a pound, flour fourteen hundred dollars a barrel, soda one hundred dollars a pound, tea five hundred dollars a pound.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
15  Her heart began to pound and new life came into her limbs.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
16  The meat ration was down to one pound per person per week.
17  The pound fell several points on the Stock Market today.
18  The basic material for weaving is yarn, which is sold by the pound and costs between US$4 and US$16 per metre of woven goods.
19  A 98 pound weakling can't attack a beachfront bully with impunity.
20  The pound stayed firm against dollar in London but fell a little in New York.
21  But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton.
22  You can be paid in pounds sterling or American dollars.
23  He changed his pounds for the equivalent amount of dollars.
24  Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
25  Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds.
26  I've been setting aside a few pounds each week.
27  My employer deducted ten pounds from my wages this week.
28  The average weight of a baby at birth is just over seven pounds.
29  Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys.
30  The company has spent thousands of pounds updating their computer systems.