POUNDS in a Sentence

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233 example sentences for POUNDS, such as:

1. The machine pounds the stones into powder.
2. The house is insured for two million pounds.
3. The picture is worth at least twenty pounds.
4. It will cost two, maybe three hundred pounds.
5. Imagine that you have just won a million pounds.

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 Meanings and Examples of POUNDS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
pound
 n.  a unit of weight in general use equal to 16 oz, 0.4536 kg
 v.  strike heavily and repeatedly
Classic Sentence: (173 in 12 pages)
1  No purse, but loose money to the extent of seven pounds thirteen.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
2  There was eighty odd pounds in it, but nothing had been taken.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER VII. LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
3  By seeming to be friendly with Pilkington he had forced Frederick to raise his price by twelve pounds.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
4  For a horse, it was said, the pension would be five pounds of corn a day and, in winter, fifteen pounds of hay, with a carrot or possibly an apple on public holidays.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IX
5  A visit to the bank, where several thousand pounds were found to be lying to the murderer's credit, completed his gratification.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE CAREW MURDER CASE
6  Since you have been in the habit of visiting here, he has wanted in one sum as much as a hundred pounds.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VII
7  So the compensation was only three hundred pounds, and they made out as if it was more of a gift than legal compensation, because it was really the man's own fault.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 7
8  My mother left me twenty thousand pounds in trust, and I know Clifford can't touch it.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
9  You have only got more than your share of the money, and make people work for you for two pounds a week, or threaten them with starvation.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 13
10  My dad left me three hundred pounds when he died.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
11  It was about thirty shillings a day, or ten pounds a week.
Lady Chatterley's Lover By D H Lawrence
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 17
12  All Huntingdon exclaimed on the greatness of the match, and her uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
13  The son had a good estate in Norfolk, the daughter twenty thousand pounds.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IV
14  Had he been privy to her conversation with his son, he would not have wished her to belong to him, though her twenty thousand pounds had been forty.
Mansfield Park By Jane Austen
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
15  In other words, five pounds and Oliver Twist were offered to any man or woman who wanted an apprentice to any trade, business, or calling.
Oliver Twist By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
16  A furniture store did me out of several hundred pounds.
17  It will cost two, maybe three hundred pounds.
18  Imagine that you have just won a million pounds.
19  The picture is worth at least twenty pounds.
20  The machine pounds the stones into powder.
21  The dishonest manager defrauded the company of millions of pounds.
22  The house is insured for two million pounds.
23  They voted to accept a deal whereby the union will receive nearly three-quarters of a million pounds from the International Miners Organisation.
24  There were nine pounds left, besides some pennies.
25  The repairs will probably run into thousands of pounds.
26  I worked for two weeks, and fifty pounds was all I had to show for it.
27  He was chiseled out of five thousand pounds in business speculation.
28  A seat in the stalls or in one of the elaborate boxes surrounding the horseshoe-shaped auditorium now costs nearly 700 pounds.
29  Compact fluorescent light bulbs contaminate the environment with 30000 pounds of mercury each year.
30  North America Grizzly Bear: This is a mammal, that is 5 to 8 ft tall, weighs about 800 pounds, and lives to be 25 yrs old.