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US
/ˈtənz/
]
[ UK /tˈʌnz/ ]
[ UK /tˈʌnz/ ]
NOUN
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a large number or amount
she amassed stacks of newspapers
made lots of new friends
How To Use tons In A Sentence
- The quick touch buttons on the top are not really "touchable," you have to smudge (grind) the button a little to use it. Newegg.com RSS Feed - Daily Deals
- Here we did everything but lift up the old-fashioned coal-burning Aga cooker, which must have weighed a couple of tons at least. A CONVICTION OF GUILT
- 8. The reporters all want Obama to make the sort of inaccurate, snide, snipy comments that the Clintons are now firing off daily. Archive 2008-03-01
- Compared to a Finno-Ugric language like Estonian or Hungarian, which has tons of cases with exotic names like the inessive, superessive, ablative, translative, and exessive, English seems as poor as a pauper on payday. 2009 October « Motivated Grammar
- These infinitesimal particles are usually grouped into four main categories: the mesons, the baryons, the leptons, and the photons (the most basic unit of electromagnetic radiation).
- Pisonia has large leaves and could be said to look similar to crotons except without the yellow and red colours.
- Lobsters, like all animals with exoskeletons, periodically shed their armor as they grow.
- The researchers found no separated bones or partial skeletons, which suggests that the dinosaurs were rapidly entombed while still alive.
- Horatia was still in mourning for her mother, and wore a black skirt, but Lucilla's was of rich deep gentianella-coloured silk, and the buttons of her white vest were of beautiful coral. Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster
- His young, handsome, tonsured head was exquisitely carved in stone. The pope is coming. Liberals, be glad