POUNDS in a Sentence
Learn POUNDS from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
233 example sentences for POUNDS, such as:
1. I bought a car for five hundred pounds.
2. A deposit of eight pounds clinched the bargain.
3. I've been setting aside a few pounds each week.
4. My dad left me three hundred pounds when he died.
5. You can be paid in pounds sterling or American dollars.
2. A deposit of eight pounds clinched the bargain.
3. I've been setting aside a few pounds each week.
4. My dad left me three hundred pounds when he died.
5. You can be paid in pounds sterling or American dollars.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of POUNDS
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pound
n. 16 ounces avoirdupois
n. United States writer who lived in Europe; strongly influenced the development of modern literature (1885-1972)
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
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
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.
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.
5 A visit to the bank, where several thousand pounds were found to be lying to the murderer's credit, completed his gratification.
6 Since you have been in the habit of visiting here, he has wanted in one sum as much as a hundred pounds.
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.
8 My mother left me twenty thousand pounds in trust, and I know Clifford can't touch it.
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.
10 My dad left me three hundred pounds when he died.
11 It was about thirty shillings a day, or ten pounds a week.
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.
13 The son had a good estate in Norfolk, the daughter twenty thousand pounds.
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.
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.
Example Sentence: (60 in 5 pages)
1 You can be paid in pounds sterling or American dollars.
2 He changed his pounds for the equivalent amount of dollars.
3 Take care of the pence and the pounds will take care of themselves.
4 Total losses were estimated at over three million pounds.
5 I've been setting aside a few pounds each week.
6 My employer deducted ten pounds from my wages this week.
7 The average weight of a baby at birth is just over seven pounds.
8 Britons fork out more than a billion pounds a year on toys.
9 The company has spent thousands of pounds updating their computer systems.
10 A deposit of eight pounds clinched the bargain.
11 Everybody pounds away at his work in this foreign company.
12 Visitors can expect to pay about a thousand pounds a day.
13 That last round of drinks made a large hole in ten pounds.
14 Even when we've paid all our expenses, we should still be several hundred pounds in pocket.
15 I bought a car for five hundred pounds.