How to Use metric ton in a Sentence

metric ton

noun

• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The current global average is $6 per metric ton of CO2.
  — Nana Ama Sarfo, Forbes, 25 Aug. 2022
• 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
• 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
• Combined with no new ships joining the effort, that has led to a drop in exports from a high under the deal of 4.2 million metric tons in October to 2 million in June.
  — Courtney Bonnell, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 July 2023
• This year, Cargill is offering farmers $25 per metric ton.
  — New York Times, 9 July 2022
• But there was a large discrepancy between its estimate of 8 million metric tons and the amount of plastic observed in the ocean.
  — Delger Erdenesanaa, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Aug. 2023
• The growers can sell dry Nacional for roughly $7,300 per metric ton—more than twice the global median for cacao.
  — Heide Brandes, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2023
• The price rose to an all-time high of over 94 euros per metric ton of carbon dioxide on Wednesday, extending a monthslong surge.
  — Daniel Michaels, WSJ, 2 Feb. 2022
• Humans produce about 400 million metric tons of plastic waste each year.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 19 Mar. 2024
• The fee, set to rise to $1,500 per metric ton of methane, marks the first time the federal government has directly imposed a fee, or tax, on greenhouse gas emissions.
  — Matthew Daly, Fortune, 29 Nov. 2022
• This week, China, a top soybean importer, bought more than 3 million metric tons of the commodity from the US, a volume that surprised the market.
  — Jennifer Jacobs, Fortune, 11 Nov. 2023
• Huge ships transport containers filled with almost 2 billion metric tons of cargo to and from 850 ports worldwide each year.
  — Susan Galer, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2024
• This all adds up to the potential for over 20-40 million metric tons of lithium resources in the caldera area -- an amount that would move the US into the top of lithium suppliers globally.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 20 Sep. 2023
• The depot will have consumed its original supply of 1,200 metric tons (or more) of propellant just to get into orbit.
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 17 Nov. 2023
• When completed, the facility will be able to produce 1.1 million metric tons of pellets per year.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 30 June 2023
• One credit is supposed to equal one metric ton of carbon dioxide pollution that’s been avoided or sequestered.
  — Justine Calma, The Verge, 20 Feb. 2024
• And even if some lithium companies start succeeding, the 18 million metric ton estimate is a best-case scenario.
  — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• In an initial success, the ship, the Resilient Africa, which is loaded with 3,000 metric tons of wheat, crossed the maritime border into Romanian waters on Tuesday evening.
  — Matthew Mpoke Bigg, New York Times, 19 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024