Sentence examples for pound from high-quality English sources.

• The pound sterling is designated by the sign £.

• Add the garlic and coriander root or stems and continue to pound to a paste.

• It makes 1-pound, 1.5-pound, 2-pound, and 2.5-pound loaves.

• Bread is fourpence a two-pound loaf, potatoes are three-halfpence a pound and meat a shilling a pound.

• Pound sterling, the basic monetary unit of Great Britain, divided (since 1971) decimally into 100 new pence.

• The Sunbeam 2-Pound Programmable Breadmaker is a 600-watt unit designed to produce 1.5-pound and 2-pound loaves.

• The troy pound, believed to have originated in Troyes, France, superseded the lighter Tower pound in 1527 as the gold and silver standard.

• Though a heavyweight could swat a flyweight with ease in reality, in pound-for-pound lists a flyweight could rank higher than the heavyweight.

Use pound in a sentence.

• In fact the pound was already floating, but Mrs Thatcher abolished exchange controls and chose to keep the pound out of the European Monetary System.

• The Casabella, at about 1 pound, 1.5 ounces, is about a third of a pound lighter than our runner-up, which weighs about 1 pound, 6 ounces.

• A bag of Dark Espresso Roast beans at Starbucks is $12.95 a pound, and a bag of Eight O’Clock beans for brewed coffee at the Food Emporium is $10.72 a pound.

• So I went to a supplier and ordered a fifty-pound bag of bread flour, another fifty-pound bag of a specialty flour, and a fifty-pound bag of spelt.

• Pound was born in a small mining town in Idaho, the only child of a Federal Land Office official, Homer Loomis Pound of Wisconsin, and Isabel Weston of New York City.

• The entire recipe is right there in the name, as simple as can be: a pound of flour, a pound of butter, a pound of sugar, a pound of eggs.

• Though the name suggests otherwise, the Oster 2-Pound Expressbake Bread Maker can make loaves in a variety of sizes, including 1-pound and 1.5-pound sizes.

• "According to IRI data, the average price per pound for meat in the US during 2020 was $3.79 per pound versus $7.97 per pound for plant-based alternatives.

pound sentence examples

• The feeder comes in three different sizes with a 3-pound, 6-pound, or 12-pound reservoir for dogs of all sizes and all three versions come in multiple color choices.

• His close friends included the poets Galway Kinnell and James Merrill, but his greatest influence was Ezra Pound, whom he visited at the psychiatric hospital to which Pound was confined after broadcasting for the Italians during the second world war.

• But in September 1992, his government unsuccessfully prevented a devaluation of the pound and the currency was forced out of the European Exchange Rate mechanism (ERM) - a system for tying the pound and other currencies' values to that of the German mark.

• The mattress has five layers: 6-inch 1.8-pound solid edge support base foam, 2-inch 1.8-pound "SmartFlow" foam, 1-inch 4-pound Visco memory foam, 2.5-inch 4-pound gel memory foam, and 1-inch quilted cooling stretch fabric.