How to Use metric ton in a Sentence

metric ton

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  • Last year, around this time, there was a global deficit of 1 million metric tons.
    — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Teck’s open-pit mines produce more than 21 million metric tons of coal a year.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • Scientists estimate the mass of the dust trail could tip the scales at around 1 billion metric tons.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2019
  • These fossils lead them to a discovery of a sea-dwelling mammal that would’ve weighed up to 340 metric tons.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The world consumes a huge amount – nearly 2 billion metric tons each year.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • Aluminum forwards on the London Metal Exchange have climbed by a third this year to about $2,650 a metric ton.
    — Joe Wallace, WSJ, 30 Aug. 2021
  • In July, the hottest month ever recorded on Earth, the Greenland ice sheet shed more than 30 billion metric tons of ice in three days.
    — Cheryl Katz, National Geographic, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Much of it is hidden in what the U.N. estimates is 37 million metric tons of debris.
    — Anas Baba, NPR, 13 May 2024
  • According to SpaceX, a single Starship could land at least 100 metric tons of cargo on the moon.
    — Michael Greshko, Scientific American, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Those range from roughly $1 a metric ton in Mexico to about $127 in Sweden.
    — Washington Post, 4 Oct. 2019
  • This demonstrator would be a fairly large payload for such a mission, about one-half of a metric ton.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 Jan. 2022
  • Olive oil is currently more valuable than crude oil (crude oil right now is less than a tenth of the price of olive oil, sitting at about $670 per metric ton).
    — Laura Reiley, Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2023
  • But they’re now needed by the metric ton — a thousandfold increase.
    — Isaac Arnsdorf, ProPublica, 19 Feb. 2021
  • Sweden taxes carbon emissions at $119 per metric ton, which is the highest in the world, according to the World Bank (pdf).
    — Amanda Shendruk, Quartz, 26 Nov. 2020
  • The New Horizons mission to Pluto, by comparison, had a mass of half a metric ton.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 12 Apr. 2022
  • Over 2 metric tons of materials pass through the center each day.
    — Cameron Pugh, The Christian Science Monitor, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Ukraine exported about 20 million metric tons a year before the war.
    — Kamila Hrabchuk, Washington Post, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Last year, about 23 million metric tons of coal exports were shipped from the port of Baltimore, about a quarter of all seaborne U.S. coal shipments.
    — Jenny Gross, New York Times, 26 Mar. 2024
  • This rover is the heaviest NASA has ever attempted to land, weighing in at over a metric ton.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The commodity’s price has come down from its peak of more than $3,700 a metric ton earlier this month, but remains high.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2022
  • Commercial shipping is the main way goods move from place to place, transporting millions of metric tons of cargo a year.
    — Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Apr. 2020
  • Advances on the day were helped by copper, which rose above $9,000 a metric ton for the first time in nine years, before extending gains further on Tuesday.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 24 Feb. 2021
  • The current global average is $6 per metric ton of CO2.
    — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
  • Ninety and a half percent of plastic is not recycled and millions of metric tons a year pour into the planet's oceans.
    — Joshua Bote, USA TODAY, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Artists took bold sonic swings, inventing genres like New Wave with its fusion of punk, rock, pop, and reggae, along with a metric ton of synth.
    — Juan Velasquez, Them, 11 Oct. 2024
  • All the methane emitted on Earth amounts to about 550 million metric tons per year, with a shade more than half of that from human activities.
    — Wired, 6 Nov. 2019
  • About 11 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the ocean every year, according to the report.
    — Phil Diehl, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2024
  • Last summer, roughly 1.4 million metric tons passed through each day.
    — Rachel Siegel, Washington Post, 23 June 2024
  • So far the pact has allowed for the export of almost 33 million metric tons of food through Ukrainian ports, according to UN data.
    — Anna Cooban, CNN, 24 July 2023
  • The ports affected by the strike handle 3.8 million metric tons of bananas each year, or 75% of the nation’s supply, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation.
    — Tom Krisher, Fortune, 1 Oct. 2024

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