How to Use tonnage in a Sentence

tonnage

noun

• If tonnages are down in a bad year like this one, more acres have to be cut.
  — Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 23 June 2019
• In terms of gross tonnage the number is down by a quarter.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 23 Sep. 2018
• To get the tallest plants and most tonnage out of these forages they can’t be crowded.
  — Gerald Almy, Field & Stream, 28 May 2020
• New Orleans’ port, seventh largest in the US by tonnage, has to close for storms of this size.
  — Adam Rogers, WIRED, 12 July 2019
• In the before times, the sheer tonnage of new shows and new places to see them could feel oppressive.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 8 May 2021
• The tonnage that chicory provides allows a small plot to feed more deer than a pure clover plot of the same size.
  — Will Brantley, Field & Stream, 18 June 2020
• About 60 percent of the deadweight tonnage moved to front lines is gasoline and oil.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 6 June 2021
• The sheer volume of whiskey that comes out of these operations needs the tonnage to match.
  — Jonah Flicker, Robb Report, 30 June 2024
• Gaines said, given that the port touts itself as the fourth-largest in the United States by tonnage and the top exporter of crude oil.
  — Washington Post, 21 Oct. 2017
• Around half of the global container fleet and 90% of the world’s largest ships by tonnage crossed the Taiwan Strait last year.
  — Joyu Wang, WSJ, 6 Aug. 2022
• But that only amounts to eight percent of the total tonnage.
  — Jonathan Alcorn, National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2018
• Putin has ordered that the tonnage be quadrupled to 80 million tons in just five years.
  — National Geographic, 22 Mar. 2019
• Through August of this year, the percentage is down to 38% by value and 62% by tonnage.
  — Ken Roberts, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• Since the Key Bridge was built 48 years ago, cargo ships have more than quadrupled in tonnage, experts say.
  — Hayes Gardner, Hartford Courant, 25 Apr. 2024
• The biggest winner this year, at least as measured by tonnage: King Kong.
  — Michael Paulson, New York Times, 9 June 2019
• There are modern ocean freighters that can carry that tonnage in a single trip.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Much of that traffic is headed to the Port of Vancouver, the biggest port by cargo tonnage on the West Coast.
  — The Seattle Times, 19 May 2019
• And a clause in the contract required the city deliver a certain tonnage of waste or pay a penalty.
  — Sarah Bowman, The Indianapolis Star, 28 May 2020
• Total tonnage at the port was up 5 percent for the same period.
  — Andrea Leinfelder, Houston Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2019
• In 1941, the total ship tonnage produced by British and U.S. yards fell short of the losses inflicted by U-boats.
  — Gary Kamiya, SFChronicle.com, 20 Mar. 2020
• Brokers expect up to 20% less ship steel in terms of tonnage to be recycled this year.
  — Costas Paris, WSJ, 12 Apr. 2019
• To carry all that tonnage, the dinosaur walked on all fours with thick, muscular legs.
  — René A. Guzman, San Antonio Express-News, 30 Mar. 2021
• In gross tonnage, the Cashmere was certified at 1,277 tons.
  — John Christopher Fine, sun-sentinel.com, 21 June 2019
• Mere numbers cannot capture the tonnage of attention dumped on Radcliffe from all sides over the last 20 years.
  — Peter Rubin, Longreads, 26 Oct. 2022
• Over the past five years the average annual tonnage has dropped to less than 7 million tons.
  — jsonline.com, 2 Sep. 2021
• Some of this is fun, and the sheer tonnage of such sequences makes the third episode much livelier than its predecessors.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Sep. 2023
• These days, where gross tonnage is king, comfort has become the key design feature for many builders.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 24 Sep. 2021
• Ries also spoke to Kaiser, who reminded him that the township benefits when the mine does well due to a tonnage tax.
  — Matt McKinney, Star Tribune, 24 Nov. 2020
• The group calculated the tonnage of emissions that would be reduced by eliminating the paper stuffed into the toes of shoes.
  — Rob Davis, ProPublica, 11 July 2024
• Former prosecutors and legal experts said the tonnage of prosecutions and trials might require the Justice Department to use all of the five-year window to bring some charges.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 2 July 2024

Last Updated: 13 Oct 2024