How to Use tonne in a Sentence

tonne

noun
Definition of tonnenext
  • In the early years Mr Khamar would haul 20 tonnes from each acre of pond.
    — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Weighing in at up to a tonne, the bison is one beefy bovine.
    — Victoria Turk, Wired, 19 July 2022
  • The process emits about 10 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of hydrogen.
    — Matthias Mueller, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The couple have grown 100 bags this year (about ten tonnes) and sold almost all of it.
    — The Economist, 28 Sep. 2019
  • The United States produced around 5 billion metric tonnes of the gas in the same year.
    — Nicolas Niarchos, Time, 30 Jan. 2020
  • Plans are underway to notch it up to 450 million tonnes in the next few years.
    — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2023
  • The digging referred to here is the extraction of about 6,000 tonnes of wild yams.
    — William Beinart, Quartz Africa, 10 Feb. 2020
  • In April, the WGC said that mine production in the first quarter of this year was up 4% year-over-year to 893 tonnes.
    — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 10 June 2024
  • Central banks bough 1,079 tonnes of the precious metal last year.
    — Royston Wild, Forbes, 5 May 2023
  • Piris-Cabezas predicts that in the next decade, the cost to avoid a tonne of CO2 emissions through the use of electrofuels will fall to about $70.
    — Peter Fairley, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
  • The world uses nearly 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel a year—almost twice as much as a decade ago.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
  • That would require the cost of carbon on China’s ETS rising to at least $34 per tonne.
    — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2021
  • Thousands of tonnes of metal type must have been melted down.
    — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
  • But the upper estimates are in the range from 1.5bn tonnes to several billions of tonnes of CO2.
    — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2019
  • The edge of the cliff is fractured with cracks, and every year along the iconic white cliffs, hundreds of tonnes of rocks fall onto the beach below.
    — Ben Cusack, Fox News, 25 June 2018
  • Every year, millions of tonnes of plastic enter the oceans.
    — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2020
  • The largest blue whale weighed an incredible 190 tonnes.
    — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
  • The company claims this would be able to deliver 3.6 tonnes of cargo to the Moon’s surface.
    — The Economist, 18 July 2019
  • In the first half of 1944 alone, about nine million tonnes of supplies and equipment crossed the Atlantic from North America to Britain.
    — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
  • In effect, a tonne of sugarcane could soak up 3 lakh litres of water in a growth cycle.
    — Supriya Vohra, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The data backs her up: Around 931 million tonnes of food goes to waste each year, according to a recent report from the UN.
    — Byellie Austin, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
  • Global food waste is well on the way to becoming a billion tonne problem.
    — Niall McCarthy, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
  • For instance, there has been a surge in demand for basmati rice in the Middle East, where prices are rising by $20-$30 per tonne.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 May 2022
  • China consumes 55m tonnes of pork annually, as much as the rest of the world combined.
    — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
  • For one, the United States emits a whopping 14.86 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per person.
    — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
  • The pontiff brought close to a tonne of humanitarian aid, medicine and toys with him.
    — Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2024
  • Arbour and Evans report that the dinosaur’s torso was wrapped up in a block of stone weighing over 15 metric tonnes.
    — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
  • The microbes contribute to the removal of between 1 and 3 tonnes of carbon dioxide per acre.
    — Dina Genkina, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2024
  • Most of them find their way into the Indian Ocean, contributing to the eight million tonnes of plastic dumped in the sea every year.
    — Osman Mohamed Osman, CNN, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The ringleader of the London Bridge terror gang tried to hire a 7.5 tonne lorry hours before the attack, police have revealed.
    — Washington Post, 9 June 2017

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