How to use in-sentence of “pound”:
+ It also fixed the exchange rate of tobacco: it said that for these payments, the state should take a rate of two pennies per pound of tobacco. King George III of Great Britain vetoed the law, causing an uproar in the colony.
+ The older two, the Imperial unitsBritish imperial system and the closely related US customary system use the foot as a measure of length, the pound as a measure for weight, and the second as a measure for time.
+ The troy pound is generally not used anymore.
+ So in a 12 gauge, 12 balls add up to about a pound of lead.
+ Traditional units are still in encountered in some countries: imperial units such as the ounce or the pound were in widespread use within the British Empire.
+ So a single one–pound coin weighed one troy pound and a single 1–penny coin weighed one pennyweight.
+ This is because they use about half as much butter and eggs compared to pound cake.
Example sentences of “pound”:
+ Three British Overseas Territories also have currencies called pounds which are at par with the pound sterling.
+ During the Great Recoinage of 1816, the mint was instructed to coin one troy pound silver into 66 shillings, or its equivalent in other denominations.
+ He has a fortune of about Pound sterling£770 million.
+ Cavalcanti’s poems were translated into English by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Ezra Pound and A.S.
+ An eighty million pound sponsorship arrangement that had been signed by Brawn GPBrawn with the German company Henkel was invalid.
+ It has an endowment of Pound sterling£23.2 billion.
+ One pound sterling was originally divided by 240 sterling pence. This was because there are 240 pennyweights in a troy pound.
+ She is the presenter of quiz show “The Million Pound Drop Live.
+ In 1959, the International Yard and Pound Agreement was signed between the United Kingdom, Union of South AfricaSouth Africa, Australia, the United States, New Zealand and Canada.
+ The order only changed the definitions of the pound and the yard.
+ In 1959, the United States, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom all signed a treaty known as the ‘International Yard and Pound Agreement’.
+ The surrounding members of the Nation jumped into the ring but Shamrock quickly dispatched them all with suplexes, including the four hundred pound Henry, before reapplying the ankle lock to a bleeding Maivia.
+ Two-hundred pound tarpons were pulled out of the surrounding bay waters.
+ Her net worth was about Pound sterling£11million in April 2012.
+ A pound cost 50 to 75 pence.
+ The inch was finally standardised in the International Yard and Pound Treaty in 1959 between the United States, the United Kingdom, Union of South AfricaSouth Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.
+ Tha Dogg Pound is an United StatesAmerican gangsta rap duo.
+ He is ranked the world’s best active boxer, pound for pound, by BoxRec.
+ The B-36 could carry a 21,000 pound bomb.
+ Three British Overseas Territories also have currencies called pounds which are at par with the pound sterling.
+ During the Great Recoinage of 1816, the mint was instructed to coin one troy pound silver into 66 shillings, or its equivalent in other denominations.
More in-sentence examples of “pound”:
+ The ideal flow rate is one gallon of solvent per pound of garments per minute, depending on the size of the machine.
+ In the middle of the 1920s a new 10 shilling banknote, and smaller 1, 5 and 10 pound notes were made.
+ A pound comprises between 70,000 and 200,000 threads.
+ With their small size they weigh between 0.8 to 1 pound in adulthood.
+ He can also ground pound enemies by quickly jumping on them.
+ Under the ownership of businessman Brooks Mileson, who invested millions of pound sterlingpounds in what was a village team, the club went from the Third Division side to the Scottish Premier League in less than five years.
+ He was paid one pound a week, and provided with food.
+ A commemorative British two pound coin was issued in 2005 to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the plot.
+ In the United States, the metric system has been legal for trade since 1866 but other measurements such as the gallon, inch, and the pound are still widely used.
+ Each pound is 100 pennies or pence.
+ A molecule of carbon does not weigh much by itself, but given that with each breath twenty billion-trillion molecules are expelled, over a 7-8 hour period that adds up to over a pound of carbon.
+ The pound is divided into 100 pence.
+ So much so that in some places a pound of tea could cost $100.
+ Saint Helena has its own currency, the Saint Helena pound, which is at parity with the pound sterling.
+ He can also come down at a steep angle and pound the ground to knock enemies out.
+ Ezra Weston Loomis Pound was an American poet and critic.
+ In 1877 his widow left Pound £6000 to the University of Sydney as a memorial of him, which was used to start the William Hilton Hovell lectureship on geology and physical geography.
+ Saunders currently owns a pound sterling£1 million property with of land in Chagford, Devon and a home in London.Neil Sears and Alison Bowyer.
+ A pound coin originally weighed one Pound troy pound of sterling silver, giving the currency the name “pound sterling”.
+ A pound of thrust is how much thrust it would take to keep a one-pound object unmoving against the force of gravity on earth.
+ A 30 pound female may be 17 years old.
+ The length of the furlong was standardized between South Africa, Australia, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and the United States in the International Pound and Yard Agreement.
+ He bought an pound sterling£8.5million mansion in Compton Bassett, Wiltshire.
+ Caldwell died in Pound Ridge, New York on 16 February 2020, aged 86, of Parkinson’s disease-related problems.
+ It is thought that Clarke was unable to become leader because many in the Conservative Party do not wish to see the United Kingdom replace the Pound sterlingpound with the Euro as the main currency whereas Clarke has always been very much in favour of this policy.
+ Shylock insists on the pound of flesh as stated in the bond.
+ Nigeria started using the naira on 1 January 1973, replacing the pound at a rate of 2 naira = 1 pound.
+ The base units of the imperial system and the United States customary system are the Pound pound avoirdupois, the yard and the second.
+ Song Dynasty engineer Qiao Weiyue invented the pound lock in the 10th century.
+ In the Netherlands, however, the metric pound is equal to one kilogram.
+ Burns played in bands called Sudden Impact US, Nine Pound Truck, and the Ivys while in high school and college.
+ Important towns in the Flinders Ranges include Hawker, Quorn, Wilpena Pound and Leigh Creek.
+ The sovereign is a gold coin of the United Kingdom, with a nominal value of one pound sterling.
+ His men were living on rations of one-quarter pound of salted meat per day.
+ When Antonio fails, Shylock goes to court to get the pound of flesh.
+ The avoirdupois pound is the most common unit.
+ In 1971, the pound sterling of the United Kingdom and the Irish Pound of Ireland were decimalised.
+ This is similar to how a pound of mass is abbreviated “lb”.
+ Antonio signs a bond agreeing to give Shylock a pound of his flesh if the money is not repaid on a certain date.
+ In 1966, the basic unit of currency was changed from the Australian pound to the Australian dollar which had 100 cents to each dollar.
+ The pound sterling, also called just the pound, is the official currency used in the United Kingdom.
+ Therefore, eating 500 calories less everyday for 7 days straight would result in exactly 1 pound of loss in bodyfat.
+ British one pound coins have drawings of the bridge.
+ The pound has only been divided into 100 pence since 1971.
+ The old system of English measurements such as the pound are based on convenient objects in the natural world.
+ The Australian Pound was the money of Australia from 1910 until 1966.
+ The official currency in England is the pound sterling, whose ISO 4217 code is GBP.
+ The ideal flow rate is one gallon of solvent per pound of garments per minute, depending on the size of the machine.
+ In the middle of the 1920s a new 10 shilling banknote, and smaller 1, 5 and 10 pound notes were made.
+ A pound comprises between 70,000 and 200,000 threads.