Similar words: tonsil, tonsure, moonstone, tonsorial, tonsillitis, upton sinclair, tonsillectomy, foundation stone. Meaning: [tʌn] n. a large number or amount.
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91. The sea wall at Southend is being reinforced with tons of cement.
92. Doesn't he care that nuclear energy has so far saved the world from burning five hundred million tons of coal?
93. Britain now produces nearly 26 million tons per year of domestic garbage which must be disposed of somewhere, somehow.
94. The amount of uranium in the belt is about four billion tons, enough to make roughly a trillion tactical nuclear weapons.
95. Locomotives weighing thirty or forty tons caused havoc where wheel met rail, iron rails sometimes needing replacement every two years.
96. Certainly, at no time did the lift pass anything like 6,000 tons a day.
97. One end of a bridge had torn loose or been dislodged, wedging tons of rusty iron in the entrance.
98. Then there is the massive power generator which can weight 20 tons or more.
99. Water under tons of pressure collapsed into the undersea atomic shelter.
100. Between 1994 and 1997, an estimated 200,000 tons were left to rot in the fields.
101. The quantity of hazardous waste sent out-of-state for treatment totals 252, 460 metric tons.
102. When the receivers were called in, fraud squad officers seized eight tons of documents.
103. They use 600,000 tons of potatoes each year a tenth of the total crop and 59,000 tons of white fish.
104. Production for November totaled 760, 000 metric tons, down 1. 7 % from a year earlier.
105. Each male constructs a layered mound of two tons of leaves, twigs, earth, and sand.
106. Clusters of fire bombs falling from the planes, followed by tons of high explosives.
107. The quantity of cannabis seized on this occasion was 1.5 tons with an estimated street value of 1.5 million pounds.
108. Some 13 tons of iron scrap dumped within by the previous occupants had to be removed.
109. Its hold is estimated to contain some 2,000 tons of contaminated water.
110. Can't a groover just have a burger without having to scrape eight tons of shit out of it!!
111. Thousands of tons of earth were moved to build the dam.
112. Two hundred tons of straw and silage went up in flames.
113. The landed vehicle then offloads its 400 tons of water(Sentencedict.com ), leaving only 100 tons of hydrogen and oxygen in its tanks.
114. Chris arranged for a lorry to load 12 tons of hickory wood billets in bundles at Gladstone Dock, starting at 8am.
115. It yielded twenty-five whales, seventeen hundred barrels of oil, and three tons of whalebone.
116. Dropping a combined 76 tons in a city the size of Philadelphia is hardly an impossible task.
117. I don't drink any alcohol but I love papaya juice and drink tons of mineral water.
118. The whale was about thirty feet long, half the length of Hsu Fu, and would have weighed about seven tons.
119. It filled a 30-foot by 50-foot room and weighed 30 tons.
120. About a million tons of lava are pouring every day from the fissure which opened on the Sicilian volcano in December.