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How to use tonne in a sentence

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Tonne means a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms. Example: “The superheavy tank weighed 80 tonnes and was said to be indestructible in combat.”

Examples of tonne by meaning

nounA unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms.

  • Although loads of up to 900 tonnes could be handled by one of these locomotives, in practice the load is limited to 790 tonnes by drawgear.1961 February, “Letters to the Editor: Swiss railways”, in Trains Illustrated, page 126
  • The metric ton or 'tonne' is accepted as a synonym for the megagramme, and this form Is to be preferred on the grounds of brevity and familiarity in the industry.1971, Transactions of the Royal Institute of Naval Arcihtects, volume 113, page 215
  • The British Steel Corporation, going metric but realising the possible confusion between a ton and a tonne (1,000 kilograms) has directed its staff to pronounce ‘tonne’ ‘tunnie’.1972 May, Which

More sentences with tonne

  • The superheavy tank weighed 80 tonnes and was said to be indestructible in combat.From the entry superheavy
  • The facility has the capacity to downblend 5 tonnes of bomb-grade uranium per year.From the entry downblend
  • A female blue whale may produce a specific power of up to 16 kilowatts per tonne when travelling fast.From the entry specific power
  • At about 72 tonnes, it is the third largest ringable bell in the world.2007, Brian J. Coman, A Loose Canon, page 8. From the entry ringable
  • Engineers decided not to use hydraulics, to ensure there was no twisting or buckling to the 80-tonne girder structure.2021 July 14, “Network News: Network Rail engineers raise Machynlleth bridge”, in RAIL, number 935, page 27. From the entry twisting
  • Ten tonnes of rubbish have been removed by Network Rail from a trackside fly-tipping hotspot north of the station.2021 June 16, Howard Johnston, “Regional News: Eastern: Hartlepool”, in RAIL, number 933, page 26. From the entry fly-tipping
  • About 3.6 billion tonnes of untreated sewerage flows daily into the Yamuna, which supplies over 60 percent of Delhi's water.2010, India Today 5 Apr 17. From the entry sewerage
  • It's your average Saturday night and you're preing with your mates so you won't have to waste tonnes of money in some average bar.2022 February 28, Malou Baumann, “A round-up of all the best drinking games”, in The Tab, archived from the original on 06 Jul 2022. From the entry pre
  • We are now in Crieff, an hour outside Edinburgh, in a huge country hotel with tonnes of activities for the kids and us.2021, Dr Philippa Kaye, Doctors Get Cancer Too, Vie Books, page 173. From the entry Crieff
  • Right now, rich nations devour 28 tonnes of material per person per year – including everything from fish to forests, plastics to metals.2019, Jason Hickel, “Climate breakdown is coming. The UK needs a Greener New Deal”, in Guardian.. From the entry sustainable
  • The Tarim basin currently has an annual production capacity of over 2 million tonnes of condensate and 10 bcm of natural gas.2019 October 4, Aizhu in Singapore Chen, Sun Yilei in Shanghai, “PetroChina unit strikes high oil, gas flows in deep Tarim well”, in…. From the entry Tarim Basin
  • Over the Miocene the European deinotheres became enormous, some reaching weights of 15 tonnes—making them among the largest land mammals ever to have existed.2018, Tim Flannery, Europe: The First 100 Million Years, Penguin, published 2019, page 105. From the entry deinothere
  • WHEN fire storms hit Victoria, the pilots of aircrane Elvis are ready to rock 'n' roll, lifting the 10-tonne orange beast skyward within minutes.2009 January 25, Sue Hewitt, “Pilots ready to rock as Elvis fires up”, in Herald Sun. From the entry aircrane
  • At well over a tonne, and sometimes more than two, and 3.3 metres (11 feet) across when fully grown, the Ocean sunfish is the world's heaviest bony fish.2012, Caspar Henderson, The Book of Barely Imagined Beings, Granta Books, published 2013, page 242. From the entry ocean sunfish
  • Government officials in Guangxi Autonomous Region said the Huayin capacity was only the first phase of a planned 3.2 million tonnes alumina complex in Debao county in Baise city.2008 June 18, Polly Yam, “Chalco partly-owned alumina plant starts full run”, in Michael Urquhart, editor, Reuters, archived from the…. From the entry Debao
  • China has so far verified deposits of copper amounting to more than eight million tonnes at the Tehsing field in the northeastern part of Kiangsi province.1979 January 3, “China's mineral wealth”, in The Business Times, page 4. From the entry Tehsing
  • Tong Da, based in the Benxi Manchu autonomous county in the northeast of China, has total iron ore reserves of 34.63 million tonnes, of which around 30 percent is recoverable.2011 January 4, “PRESS DIGEST - China - Jan 4”, in Reuters, archived from the original on 27 May 2018, Commodities. From the entry Benxi

Meaning of tonne

  1. noun A unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms.

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Questions about tonne in a sentence

How do you use tonne in a sentence?
Tonne is used as a noun. For example: “The superheavy tank weighed 80 tonnes and was said to be indestructible in combat.”
What is a short sentence with tonne?
“At about 72 tonnes, it is the third largest ringable bell in the world.”
What does tonne mean?
Tonne means a unit of mass equal to 1000 kilograms.

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