“pound”造句，怎么用pound造句

an imperial pint, gallon, pound, etc

They tried to rally the pound sterling but in vain.

The pound sterling has been climbing steadily all week.

Looks are an 800-pound gorilla in the room.

The boxer weigh three hundred pound and walk like a veritable colossus.

I'd Iike a prepaid phone card. The 20-pound one, please!

The pound of flesh, which I demand of him dearly bought, it is mine, and I will have it.

It is considered a "pound" cake--with the recipe calling for a pound each of flour, dark brown sugar, butter, glace cherries, raisins, prunes, currants, plus a dozen eggs and flavorings.

But the price per pound of American raw sugar has doubled in the past year and reached a peak of 40 cents per pound in February, retreating only slightly last month.

Wild cards are typically a question mark (?), pound sign (#), or asterisk (*) used as placeholder symbols to stand in for letters.

True, food riots didn't break out in poor countries during 2009 and warehouse stores like Costco didn't ration 20-pound bags of rice... but supply remained tight.

Labour's pro-speculator and anti-industry bias has left the country far less capable of exploiting the benefits of a lower pound than ought to be the case.

Some leaders in the less emerged countries where his firm operates may see how well he has done with the rubbish they thought they had sold him and demand their pound of flesh.

Thomson Financial services estimated that announced deals increased 36 per cent last year. The largest buyers have been the Europeans, probably due to the strength of the euro and the British pound.

Carry some weight When you're grocery shopping or running errands, wear a backpack with a 5-or 10-pound bag of sugar inside to increase resistance and burn more calories.

Her head began to pound.

There is a 1 pound admission charge.

You could be paying $23 a pound for red snapper that's really $3 a pound tilapia.

Have you redeemed your car from the pound?

I paid him b pound , and he gave me 20 pence change.

When crisped, pulverize them in the electric blender, pound in a mortar, or put them through a meat grinder.

Is he suggesting all this thinking should be displayed on the open market, selling by the pound?

The ULB may be used for multiple missions that may include re-supply and casualty evacuation and is capable of carrying a 300-pound payload.

Of course,nowadays if one fails to repay debts,he wiIl not face the risk of sacrificing one pound of flesh. But even so,credItor banks wiIl not let you go so easily.

"One newton is equal to a force of 100,000 dynes in the centimetre-gram-second (CGS) system, or a force of about 0.2248 lb in the foot-pound-second (English or U.S.) system. It is named for Isaac Newton, whose second law of motion describes the changes a force can produce in the motion of a body. "

The farmers pound rice in a mortar.

The value of the pound has fallen to a new low against the dollar.

Let the children themselves judge what is right and what is wrong; don't pound your view point in.

This year has been kinder to the pound than to other major currencies: it has risen by 1.1% against the dollar—but only after collapsing in 2008.

a rating of 60p in the pound

Fussy about trifles, careless about big things. Penny wise, pound foolish.

The report, based on research among800 adults, says today's working women dismiss claims that their behaviour is" big motherish" as they fuel a multi-million-pound market in new and flashy" child-tracking" devices.

By early December 1949, Hanff is suddenly worried that the six-pound ham she's sent off to augment British rations will arrive in a kosher office.

The pound stayed firm against the dollar in London.