How to Use tonne in a Sentence

tonne

noun

• In the early years Mr Khamar would haul 20 tonnes from each acre of pond.
  — The Economist, 15 Feb. 2018
• Weighing in at up to a tonne, the bison is one beefy bovine.
  — Victoria Turk, Wired, 19 July 2022
• The process emits about 10 tonnes of CO2 per tonne of hydrogen.
  — Matthias Mueller, IEEE Spectrum, 19 Aug. 2023
• The couple have grown 100 bags this year (about ten tonnes) and sold almost all of it.
  — The Economist, 28 Sep. 2019
• The United States produced around 5 billion metric tonnes of the gas in the same year.
  — Nicolas Niarchos, Time, 30 Jan. 2020
• Plans are underway to notch it up to 450 million tonnes in the next few years.
  — Mimansa Verma, Quartz, 11 Apr. 2023
• The digging referred to here is the extraction of about 6,000 tonnes of wild yams.
  — William Beinart, Quartz Africa, 10 Feb. 2020
• In April, the WGC said that mine production in the first quarter of this year was up 4% year-over-year to 893 tonnes.
  — Melvin Backman, Quartz, 10 June 2024
• Central banks bough 1,079 tonnes of the precious metal last year.
  — Royston Wild, Forbes, 5 May 2023
• Piris-Cabezas predicts that in the next decade, the cost to avoid a tonne of CO2 emissions through the use of electrofuels will fall to about $70.
  — Peter Fairley, Scientific American, 13 Dec. 2022
• The world uses nearly 50bn tonnes of sand and gravel a year—almost twice as much as a decade ago.
  — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2020
• That would require the cost of carbon on China’s ETS rising to at least $34 per tonne.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2021
• Thousands of tonnes of metal type must have been melted down.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• But the upper estimates are in the range from 1.5bn tonnes to several billions of tonnes of CO2.
  — The Economist, 16 Dec. 2019
• The edge of the cliff is fractured with cracks, and every year along the iconic white cliffs, hundreds of tonnes of rocks fall onto the beach below.
  — Ben Cusack, Fox News, 25 June 2018
• Every year, millions of tonnes of plastic enter the oceans.
  — Cathleen O'Grady, Ars Technica, 30 Apr. 2020
• The largest blue whale weighed an incredible 190 tonnes.
  — Sean Mowbray, Discover Magazine, 27 Sep. 2024
• The company claims this would be able to deliver 3.6 tonnes of cargo to the Moon’s surface.
  — The Economist, 18 July 2019
• In the first half of 1944 alone, about nine million tonnes of supplies and equipment crossed the Atlantic from North America to Britain.
  — The Week Uk, theweek, 6 June 2024
• In effect, a tonne of sugarcane could soak up 3 lakh litres of water in a growth cycle.
  — Supriya Vohra, Quartz, 19 Dec. 2022
• The data backs her up: Around 931 million tonnes of food goes to waste each year, according to a recent report from the UN.
  — Byellie Austin, Fortune, 10 Aug. 2023
• Global food waste is well on the way to becoming a billion tonne problem.
  — Niall McCarthy, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2021
• For instance, there has been a surge in demand for basmati rice in the Middle East, where prices are rising by $20-$30 per tonne.
  — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 27 May 2022
• China consumes 55m tonnes of pork annually, as much as the rest of the world combined.
  — The Economist, 12 Sep. 2019
• For one, the United States emits a whopping 14.86 tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions per person.
  — Prem Thakker, The New Republic, 8 June 2023
• The pontiff brought close to a tonne of humanitarian aid, medicine and toys with him.
  — Ines De La Cuetara, ABC News, 9 Sep. 2024
• Arbour and Evans report that the dinosaur’s torso was wrapped up in a block of stone weighing over 15 metric tonnes.
  — Brian Switek, Smithsonian, 8 May 2017
• The microbes contribute to the removal of between 1 and 3 tonnes of carbon dioxide per acre.
  — Dina Genkina, Ars Technica, 1 Feb. 2024
• Overnight footage showed rescue workers combing through tonnes of rubble in the search for survivors and victims.
  — Abeer Salman, CNN, 20 Oct. 2024
• Most of them find their way into the Indian Ocean, contributing to the eight million tonnes of plastic dumped in the sea every year.
  — Osman Mohamed Osman, CNN, 31 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 1 Dec 2024