How to Use kilogram in a Sentence

kilogram

noun

• One way would be to say that a kilogram is the mass of 1 liter of water.
  — Rhett Allain, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
• The entire device weighs 1.4 kilograms (3 pounds) and folds up to the size of a clutch purse.
  — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
• The cost of a kilogram of onions is greater than the minimum wage for a day’s work in the Philippines.
  — Time, 9 Jan. 2023
• The rocket was small, just 2.1 meters long, with a mass of 93 kilograms.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
• The team is able to produce kilograms of graphene daily.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 28 Jan. 2020
• The price for a kilogram of his beans rarely exceeds two U.S. dollars.
  — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
• The bins weigh and charge per kilogram of organic waste.
  — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
• The armor weighed roughly 18–19 kilograms, was quite rigid, and was made out of thick bronze plates.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 30 May 2024
• Just their head equipment can weigh up to 15 kilograms.
  — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 1 July 2024
• Other drones may be loaded with as much as a kilogram of narcotics and flown to the U.S. side.
  — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 5 June 2020
• But on your behalf, the roads and buildings and bridges out there are using more than a kilogram.
  — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
• They’re often marked in kilograms (1 kg = about 2.2 pounds).
  — Caitlin Carlson, Women's Health, 17 July 2023
• Up to 100 kilograms can be needed to coat a plane, and everything is done by hand.
  — Antonio Dini, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2024
• The government rate of mahuwa is Rs30 per kilogram but there is no market and no traders.
  — Hridayesh Joshi, Quartz India, 8 May 2020
• The courier was not charged for the drug offense as troopers didn’t disclose to him that a kilogram was found.
  — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021
• The cocaine appeared to have been cut off a compressed kilogram.
  — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 2 July 2021
• The people in the ivermectin group received a dose of 400 micrograms per kilogram for the first three days.
  — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2022
• For example, a kilogram of camel meat that cost about $4 before the holy month now costs about $6.
  — Omar Faruk, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023
• The servers carry up to six mass in each hand, weighing roughly 12 kilograms (26 pounds).
  — Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024
• That would be about $1,550 per kilogram in today’s dollars.
  — Glenn Harlan Reynolds, National Review, 20 May 2021
• Aim for something in the neighborhood of 1 to 2 milligrams of caffeine per each kilogram of body weight.
  — Alisa Bowman, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
• In summers past, the price of sardines has reached 7 euros a kilogram (about $8.50) as wholesalers arrived from Spain to snap up the catch.
  — Peter S. Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
• In summers past, the price of sardines has reached 7 euros a kilogram (about $8.50), as wholesalers arrived from Spain to snap up the catch.
  — New York Times, 11 June 2021
• Thanks to SpaceX, that number has fallen to $2,720 per kilogram and promises to come down still further.
  — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 20 Nov. 2020
• The suppliers threw in a few hundred kilograms of feijoas as well.
  — Kate Evans Tatsiana Chypsanava, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
• Slim enough to fit into a personal item, the small but mighty scale can weigh your suitcase or bag in both pounds and kilograms.
  — Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 3 July 2024
• In May, a kilogram (2.2 pounds) of sugar cost about the equivalent of 72 cents in Mogadishu, the capital.
  — Eileen Ng, BostonGlobe.com, 23 July 2022
• Oceana estimates, for example, that the lower parts of the caudal fin, at the top of a shark’s tail, can fetch more than $300 a kilogram.
  — Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
• If the car has a mass of 2 kilograms, that would give it a velocity of 10 meters per second after one second.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
• But the world has only about 25 kilograms of tritium commercially available.
  — Sophie Blondel, The Conversation, 18 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024