pound
[paʊnd]
Definition:
1. The unit of money in the UK, worth 100 pence.
2. Move heavily or clumsily.
3. Break down and crush by beating, as with a pestle.
'pound' example sentence:
- I've lost six and a half pounds since I started my diet.
- The pound steadied against the dollar.
- You were never a ninety-eight pound weakling.
- The paper got clobbered with libel damages of half a million pounds.
- The pound rallied against the dollar.
- The company has spent thousands of pounds updating their computer systems.
- A pound of butter, please.
- He's six feet tall and weighs 200 pounds.
- Half a pound of coffee costs one pound.
- How much is a thousand pounds in euros?
- Give me a pound of tomatoes and a pound of eggplants.
- To grow and eat a pound of potatoes sends less than one-quarter pound of carbon dioxide into the air.
- Five pounds doesn't buy much nowadays.
- Tea is sold by the pound.
- The pound stayed firm against the dollar in London.
- The company's performance was impacted by the high value of the pound.
- You can change back unused dollars into pounds at the bank.
- The pound has sunk to its lowest recorded level against the dollar.
- You can be paid in pounds sterling or American dollars.
- The strike cost them thousands of pounds in lost business.
- What would you do if you won a million pounds?
- I didn't put that pound under your pillow.
- Three dollars a pound.
- Please give me a pound of butter.
- The pound is expected to continue to increase against most other currencies.
- I've lost ten pounds since I started this diet.
- We sell these cakes by pound. They are $1.5 a pound.
- That one mistake left him thousands of pounds out of pocket.
- British exports have been handicapped by the strong pound.
- Sure, 33 cents a pound.
- Yesterday the pound strengthened against the dollar.
- Fifty pounds is the best I can offer you.
- Her head began to pound.
- Yesterday the pound was quoted at $1.8285, unchanged from Monday.
- I'll take a pound.
- That's just over a pound!
- I'd like a pound of peas, please.
- It will cost two, maybe three hundred pounds.
- A pound of hamburger, please.
- The builders presented a bill for several hundred pounds.
- The area is still being pounded by rebel guns.
- You need just one pound to open a bank account with us.
- Both boxers weighed in at several pounds below the limit.
- The bomb was packed with several pounds of high explosive.
- The meat ration was down to one pound per person per week.
- Martha would consume nearly a pound of cheese per day.
- The winner will receive ten pounds' worth of books.
- The standard rate of income tax was cut to 23p in the pound.
- They cost two dollars a pound.
- The pound closed slightly down at$ 1.534.
- He caught a 6 pound salmon in the annual fishing derby at Lake Winnipesaukee.
- Billions of pounds were wiped off share prices today.
- The seeds were pounded to a fine powder.