How to Use metric ton in a Sentence

metric ton

noun

• 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
• The total amount of plastic created since humans first started making it is estimated to be more than 8.3 billion metric tons (pdf).
  — Chase Purdy, Quartz, 14 Feb. 2020
• According to the company’s own reporting, Shell was responsible for about 1.2 billion metric tons of emissions last year.
  — Karen Hao, The Atlantic, 13 Sep. 2024
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• And after years of low prices and stagnant trading, carbon prices across Europe are now reaching record heights: €40 ($47) per metric ton.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 3 Apr. 2021
• Scientists estimate the structure is made up of about 5.5 million metric tons of sand.
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Mar. 2024
• Because of a lack of supply due to climate change, olive oil now costs a record high of $9,000 per metric ton, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 6 Oct. 2023
• With a fully reusable first stage, New Glenn has a lift capacity of 45 metric tons to low-Earth orbit.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 27 Oct 2024