ton
[tʌn]
Definition:
1. A United States unit of weight equivalent to 2000 pounds.
2. A British unit of weight equivalent to 2240 pounds.
Use 'ton' in a sentence:
- The contract price quadrupled to nearly $100/ton.
- This plane can carry a cargo of 16 tons.
- I've got half a ton of gravel in the lorry but he won't sign my delivery note.
- A Philippine Coast Guard spokesman said the ferry had been hit by a 12,000-ton Singapore registered cargo vessel.
- Hundreds of tons of oil spilled into the sea.
- The ton of concrete be used in the make of the wall.
- The hundred and twenty ton aircraft was deeply mired.
- This marble ramp weighs one ton.
- Wherever you live, are there are a ton of local bands dying for an audience.
- Thirty-six trucks were loaded with some 100 tons of dried milk and bandages.
- A parcel weighing half a ton has just been delivered.
- Do you have a ton of data to import?
- I know lots of women who skip breakfast, and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it.
- In short, this game is a ton of fun.
- Every year they panned about a ton and a half of gold.
- They loaded about a ton of canned goods into the covered bed of a pickup truck.
- The average bull weighs over one ton.
- The maximum load for this lorry is one ton.
- There were about 300 million tons of grain in the fields at the start of the harvest.
- 300 tons of Peruvian mangoes were kept from entering France.
- What have you got in this bag? It weighs a ton!
- The total shortage was 200 tons.
- A thousand tons of crude oil has spilled into the sea from an oil tanker.
- Will I incur a ton of debt getting my degree?
- There was a ton of great work, too.
- You'll find a ton of files.
- They came down on him like a ton of bricks (= criticized him very severely) .
- The motorcyclist must have been doing a ton as he passed me.
- It is quite adequately furnished but I wish it to be in really bon ton.
- With fertilizer prices jumping nearly 50% per metric ton over the last year in some places, human waste is an attractive, and often necessary, alternative.
- There's always tons of scrap paper in Dad's office.
- If there's a mistake she'll come down on me like a ton of bricks.
- The company throws off a ton of cash.
- It will save a ton of money.
- The net profit amounts to 20 dollars per ton of ore.
- It could be a tremendous tool for scientists who have to wade through tons of data.
- For every ton of waste recycled, a city avoids paying for its disposal, which, in parts of New York, amounts to saving of more than $100 per ton.
- Thousands of tons of filth and sewage pour into the Ganges every day.
- Don't you think that the Pope come down on them like the proverbial ton of bricks?
- Not a ton of content, straightforward mission.
- The truck carried many tons of freight.
- Yesterday, a cargo ship chartered by the UN arrived in the capital carrying 1,550 tons of rice.
- These cases weigh a ton.
- They've got tons of money.
- It is a ship with 5000 tons of goods.
- On the eve of the Revolution, the colonies produced thirty thousand tons of crude iron a year.
- Ask a ton of questions?
- They have 2,500 tons of paper stored in their depository.
- Getting rid of rubbish can cost$ 100 a ton.
- I felt like I was hit by a whole ton of bricks.
- Even by modern standards, the 46, 000 ton Titanic was a colossal ship.
- He was caught doing a ton.
- The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.
- The tolal reserves is about 2×10 ^ 6 ton.
- I've still got tons to do.
- Enl è ve ton manteau que nous causions plus à l'aise.
- They drink tea with a ton of sugar!
- The weight of this steel plate is one ton.
- Six 10000 ton freighters can berth at this dock.
- Disappointment hit her like a ton of bricks.
- Three hundred thousand tons of cereals are needed to replenish stocks.
- We still have a ton to do.
- The stones each measure one ton, which makes them difficult to transport by truck.
- The Wall Street Journal uses 220,000 metric tons of newsprint each year.
- If you do something awful they all come down on you like a ton of bricks.
- Getting rid of rubbish can cost $100 a ton.
- They came down on him like a ton of bricks.
- LME copper traded at $ 7, 439 a ton, up 3.4 % on the previous afternoon kerb.
- Around 180,000 metric tons of food aid is required.
- A UN spokesman said that the mission will carry 20 tons of relief supplies.