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.
