How to Use kilo in a Sentence

kilo

noun

• The war comes home in the form of a kilo of pure heroin.
  — TheWeek, 5 Oct. 2020
• The parcels turned out to be more than 400 kilos of cocaine.
  — Mattathias Schwartz, New York Times, 23 Oct. 2017
• Yeah so some could have been up to 1000 kilos which is a ton.
  — Flora Lichtman, Scientific American, 31 May 2023
• At that price, sold by the kilo, the drugs would be worth more than $419 million.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin and Rebekah Riess, CNN, 18 June 2019
• The temples sell it, for up to $700 a kilo, to buyers who then process, sell, and ship it all over the world.
  — Jessica Chia, Allure, 16 Feb. 2018
• The bull charges out of the metal door, dark brown, 400 kilos of mass on a mission to destroy.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• Filled with Catholic imagery, cookies in this monastery are sold by the half kilo.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
• So people tend to quote figures for a pure gram (or kilo).
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 4 May 2018
• Branch began to work with drug dealers in the area, and at 14 was holding half a kilo of heroin at a time.
  — Mike Dyce, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• One kilo of plastic sells for around one Israeli shekel, or 30 cents.
  — Heidi Levine, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
• One kilo of meth, a quarter-pound of marijuana and a firearm were seized.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 26 Feb. 2020
• Scott was going to sell a kilo of cocaine to a man and arrived at Kenyon Court in a red minivan.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 12 June 2018
• Plain tortillas wrapped in newspaper are sold by the kilo for customers to take home.
  — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit, 20 June 2018
• But European eels can be procured for around €300 a kilo in France or Spain.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• That one kilo package costs around $39 in grocery stores and on the Amazon storefront.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 July 2019
• The brick was tested and was determined to be a kilo of cocaine, the spokeswoman said, adding that it will be destroyed.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2019
• Dubria exports her crop to buyers as far away as Seattle for at least $5 per kilo.
  — Kieran Guilbert, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2018
• This week's included, how much is a kilo of silver worth?
  — Joe Mutascio, The Indianapolis Star, 4 Aug. 2023
• In the first video, Vasquez stands beside the drone, while holding the payload: an RPG warhead weighing a couple of kilos.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 16 Mar. 2023
• The guardsmen freed the turtle from the jumble and seized the drugs -- more than 800 kilos of cocaine, authorities said.
  — Tracy Connor, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2017
• After all, the ivory they were paid five euros a kilo for was going for 2,000 euros in China.
  — The Economist, 31 Aug. 2017
• Petrillo, too, once worked with caviar in New York and fondly recalls opening two-kilo tins of the stuff and falling in love with the taste and texture.
  — Diana Spechler, Bon Appétit, 26 Jan. 2023
• Hardman helped design the necklace, made with more than 100 karats of diamonds and a half kilo of gold, according to the Jets site.
  — Lisa Gutierrez, Kansas City Star, 14 Feb. 2024
• These weigh a kilo each, and are adapted from 1950s Soviet-era anti-tank hand grenades.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 1 June 2022
• Every few days the tanks get trucked to a location where the eels are packed in clear plastic bags filled with oxygenated water and boxed by the kilo.
  — National Geographic, 7 June 2017
• On a volcanic island, where there is not a lot of rain, a lot of creativity is required to produce just a kilo of grapes.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Dec. 2022
• Two additional kilo presses were found in the closet where the fentanyl was found, the report said.
  — Maria Cramer, New York Times, 17 Sep. 2023
• Ten euros per kilo, a hundred-kilo font, that’s a clean thousand in your pockets.
  — Francine Prose, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• Turkey has the same carbon footprint as chicken, at around 5 kilos of emissions per kilo of meat.
  — Sarah Lazarus, CNN, 21 Sep. 2020
• In court, officials said one kilo of fentanyl was found in a closet at the daycare, along with two kilo presses, which are used to process drugs.
  — Ali Bauman, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024