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22 example sentences for TON, such as:

1. I've still got tons to do.
2. The maximum load for this truck is ten ton.
3. J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple.
4. He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.
5. They used five tons of dynamite to blow up the rock.

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 Meanings and Examples of TON
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
ton
 n.  a British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds
 n.  a United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds
Classic Sentence: (16 in 2 pages)
1  Reckoning ten barrels to the ton, you have ten tons for the net weight of only three quarters of the stuff of the whale's skin.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
2  The trucks were all of iron, and heavy, and they put about threescore hams on each of them, a load of more than a quarter of a ton.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
3  Cut up by the two-thousand-revolutions-a-minute flyers, and mixed with half a ton of other meat, no odor that ever was in a ham could make any difference.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
4  J'errais avec toi, pressant ton bras souple.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 12: CHAPTER VI—WAITING
5  J'adore son jupon, Que tu mets ton carquois.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MARIUS, EMERGING FROM CIVIL WAR, MAKES READY F...
6  He must not head mobs, or set the ton in dress.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
7  I feel a ton better since I landed again in dear dirty Dublin.
Dubliners By James Joyce
Context  Highlight   In A LITTLE CLOUD
8  She said: "Mr. Washin'ton, God knows I spent de bes' days of my life in slavery."
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. Washington
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII.
9  The warehouses which had bordered the train tracks for a quarter of a mile and held tons of military supplies had not been rebuilt and their rectangular foundations looked dreary under the dark sky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIII
10  By experiment its one and fifty yarns will each suspend a weight of one hundred and twenty pounds; so that the whole rope will bear a strain nearly equal to three tons.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 60. The Line.
11  Besides, for some way, where I now saw but a naked spine, all that had been once wrapped round with tons of added bulk in flesh, muscle, blood, and bowels.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
12  About a hundred tons; but she is built to stand any weather.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 31. Italy: Sinbad the Sailor.
13  I had not been at home above ten days, when Captain William Robinson, a Cornish man, commander of the Hopewell, a stout ship of three hundred tons, came to my house.
Gulliver's Travels 2 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: CHAPTER I.
14  None of these things will interfere with my chartering a few thousand tons on my own account.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XXII
15  The ceiling of this small chamber is really the end of the descending piston, and it comes down with the force of many tons upon this metal floor.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
Example Sentence:
1  But fifty cents a pound is a thousand dollars a ton.
2  The maximum load for this truck is ten ton.
3  We gave them two tons over and above the amount agreed to.
4  They used five tons of dynamite to blow up the rock.
5  I've still got tons to do.
6  So today, we dumped another 70 million tons of global-warming pollution into the thin shell of atmosphere surrounding our planet, as if it were an open sewer.