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Example sentences for "nine pounds"

  • And this is the measure of the energy that was put into nine pounds of water to force it from a state of vapor into its constituent gases.

  • Then smoke the ham for three days and three nights over a fire of saw-dust and horse-litter, fresh made from the stable every night; after which smoke them for a fortnight over a wood fire like other bacon.

  • Strain the truffles or morels from the butter they were first stewed in; throw them into the sauce; warm the whole again, and serve hot.

  • In cultivating this vegetable, I found the fruit to average from eight to nine pounds, particularly if grown on newly broken-up sod or grass land.

  • They were valued at three thousand five hundred and fifty-nine pounds, and were paid for partly in money, and partly with duplicates of printed books in the Museum collection.

  • The cocoons delivered at the filature in 1760, weighed seven thousand nine hundred and eighty-three pounds, and there were spun eight hundred and thirty-nine pounds.

  • The proportion of sugar is to be three pounds to nine pounds of fruit.

  • Or choose some pots of equal size top and bottom, sufficient to hold eight or nine pounds each.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nine pounds" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another land; beef suet; enabled them; forty shillings; foul weather; going west; nine children; nine degrees; nine feet; nine inches; nine lashes; nine lines; nine members; nine miles; nine millions; nine months; nine thousand; nine years; ninety days; ninety degrees; ninety feet; ninety miles; one thousand five hundred; quoting from; thick cloud; wish thee