hundredweight

How To Use hundredweight In A Sentence

• The only exciting thing that happened all day was when the top came off the scaffolding tower, unbalanced by about a hundredweight of slate which had been injudiciously stacked all on the same side of its centre of gravity.
• There's been years when the price differential is $8 or $10 a hundredweight.
• Most standard sizes of steel coils and cut sheets are sold by weight, typically the price is quoted per hundredweight (which is 100 pounds and abbreviated as "cwt"). Purchasing - Top Stories
• "I remember once having to help carry a three hundredweight bag of wheat.
• The staff are longing to sell the two hundredweight bags of sawdust that make up most of the stock, but the browsers go straight past those to stick their fingers in the reptile cage.
• I remember once having to help carry a three hundredweight bag of wheat.
• Having not eaten bacon or burgers for years I now consume vegeburgers by the hundredweight.
• 'Yo' niver seed more vittle brought together i 'Newcassel, I'll be bound; there'll be above half a hundredweight o' butcher's meat, beside pies and custards. Sylvia's Lovers — Complete
• This movement was transmitted to cranks on the rear wheel by connecting rods; the machine weighed almost exactly half a hundredweight and the physical effort required to ride it must have been considerable.
• Four hundredweight in a one-horse cart was low in comparison with the weights carried by scheduled carriers but it is a plausible average to use for traffic on the rural roads of Cheshire.