In the autumn of 1815, he laid down the lines of the schooner Neptune, sixty-five tons burden, not far below the neighborhood of the Central market.
The keel was laid for a ship of thirty-five tons, to be named the Pilot.
Supposing the two northern vessels to have brought home the cargo which is common from the northern fishery, to wit, twenty-five tons each, the whole produce this year, will then be fifteen hundred and fifty tons.
The pressure of five tonsin the one inch prime-cylinder, is now brought to bear on the piston of the press, which is eight inches in diameter.
The piston of the large cylinder is eight inches in diameter, and is loaded with a top-weight of five tons.
The other cylinder has a piston of only one inch in diameter, which is also loaded with a top-weight of five tons.
La Tour de Segur, en Saint Lambert, belonging to Monsieur Miresmenil, who makes one hundred and twenty-five tons.
Chateau de la Fite, belonging to the President Pichard, at Bordeaux, who makes one hundred and seventy-five tons.
He makes one hundred and seventy-five tons, which sell at three hundred livres, new, and six hundred livres, old.
Each gate is 48 feet long, and weighs seventy-five tons, the breadth being 8 feet in the middle, curving to 2 feet at the ends.
The weight of each of these locomotives is nearly forty-five tons, and it is said that they can easily draw loads of 600 tons; but their adoption is not likely to he general.
Of solid food she has still enough, for of the four to five tons of coal with which she started on her journey, she has not consumed more than a ton and a-half.
Instead of the weight being four tons, it is often nearly twenty, and instead of bulk being ten, it is seldom less than forty, often fifty, and sometimes it mounts up to even four or five tons further.
Now the rate is five tons, or twenty times that amount, for each person of all our greatly increased population.
The cost of labor and of power is exactly the same whether ore yields fifty-five tons of pure iron to the hundred, or whether it yields only thirty tons, but the price received is little more than half.
You have treated eighty-five tons of granite like a child's cradle; and like a child's cradle those eighty-five tons have rocked at your will!
They are now of about sixty-five tons builders' measurement, many of graceful forms, and are fast sailers.
It would not do if we were going to join a man-of-war; but we have room to stow away a good number of things on board the Lively, although she is little more than thirty-five tons burden.
You can cool off a lot of red-hot iron in forty-five minutes when you've got forty-five tons of water a minute to do it with.
The bar, which in smooth weather allows passage to a load of five tons, not unfrequently breaks at an offing of four miles, and breaks obliquely.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five tons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
