kilo

Definition:
1. One thousand grams; the basic unit of mass adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites.

Use 'kilo' in a sentence:

• 1. In Africa a kilo of beef can be produced with as little as 146 litres of water.
• 2. In the USA. the average woman is 163 cm tall and weighs 64 kilos, but the average model is 180 cm tall and weighs 53 kilos.
• 3. They eat 19 pounds ( 9 kilos) per person on average!
• 4. It is about 76 kilos in weight.
• 5. It weighs more than 1,000 kilos and is at least ten meters long.
• 6. This parcel is overweight by one kilo.
• 7. Half a teaspoon a day is enough to burn an extra kilo a month.
• 8. One consequence of this is a reduction in the GHG cost of production per kilo of product.
• 9. The charge for overweight luggage is 5 dollars per kilo. You should have excess luggage checked.
• 10. To counter such advances, Vietnam has ordered six Kilo-class submarines from Russia.
• 11. The kind of paper that purports to show that people who eat more than one kilo of broccoli a week were 1.17 times more likely than those who eat less to suffer late in life from pernicious anaemia.
• 12. He weighed out five kilos of rice for each one of them, telling them that it should last two weeks.
• 13. In this vegetable market, two dollars will get you two kilos of tomatoes or one kilo of peas.
• 14. He's lost a lot of weight ─ he's three kilos lighter than he was.
• 15. In this vegetable market two dollars will get you two kilos of tomatoes or one kilo of peas.
• 16. These tomatoes are three yuan a kilo.
• 17. Only fifty kilos are allowed for personal luggage.
• 18. And you come back with a kilo of meat!
• 19. She bought a kilo of tomatoes.
• 20. We sell eggs by the kilo.
• 21. This parcel is overweight BY2 kilos.
• 22. During last year's Mid Autumn Festival, Liao carried a kilo of meat and pig's feet to his home.
• 23. China has bought 12 Russian Kilo-class diesel attack submarines.
• 24. Vietnam has ordered six Kilo-class submarines from Russia.
• 25. I must buy a kilo of coffee today.
• 26. A kilo of carrots is expensive now.
• 27. I'd like one kilo of apples, please.
• 28. The baby girl weighed only 2 kilos at birth.
• 29. Competition is fierce and the chief prize is a complete Stilton cheese weighing about four kilos ( disappointingly, but understandably the cheeses used in the race are wooden ones).
• 30. He tipped the scales at just over 80 kilos.
• 31. One kilo will be enough.
• 32. The price of grapes had shot up to 32 francs a kilo.
• 33. It weighs nearly 27 kilos ( about 65 pounds)
• 34. How much is one kilo?
• 35. This kind of chocolate is retailed at one pound a kilo.
• 36. It takes at least three kilos of fish meal to add one kilo to the weight of a farmed salmon.
• 37. It takes up to three kilos of fish meal to add one kilo to the weight of a farmed salmon.
• 38. They cost 50p a kilo.
• 39. The gross weight is 23 kilos.
• 40. Weigh me out one kilo of pork.
• 41. They used to buy ten kilos of beef in one lump.
• 42. Using the diet he's trimmed down from 90 kilos to 70.
• 43. Ethiopia, for instance uses the equivalent of just twenty kilos of oil per head a year.
• 44. It weighed between nine and ten kilos.
• 45. It weighs a kilo, or just over two pounds.
• 46. She weighs 60 kilos.
• 47. The baby weighed three kilos at birth.
• 48. She weighed out a kilo of flour.
• 49. Please give me two kilos of lamb's kidney.
• 50. The delivery of potatoes was several kilos light.
• 51. This jar will hold a kilo.
• 52. He'd lost ten kilos in weight.