U.S. unit of mass (2,000 pounds or 907.18474 kg)
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Examples for "ton "
Examples for "ton "
1 You will say, 'Thanks a ton . ' Then you will come straight home.
2 The industry associations have done a ton of work on this, however.
3 Building the future of transportation is, by definition, a ton of work.
4 One Australian species, she notes, produces up to one ton per year.
5 Ocean Nourishment recently dumped one ton of urea into the Sulu Sea.
1 Like oil, coal costs have soared recently, but not that of lower grades, which still sell for about $10 a short ton .
2 Coal was $5.25 per short ton .
3 The coke product of the United States is more than twenty million short tons a year.
4 RGGI's current nine states emitted 90 million short tons in 2016.
5 The world's production of spelter in 1913 (the latest authentic figures obtainable) was 1,093,635 short tons .
1 I wish she'd let up long enough for us t' finish this job.
2 The last day we had in camp they asked us t' make one more try with th' hounds.
4 We kin find a river that'll take us t' the coast, 'nd I kin find a way that'll take us where you wanter go.
5 But with us 't is quite contrary; every particular action requires a particular judgment.
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