How to Use kilo in a Sentence

kilo

noun

• Plus, this one reads both kilos and pounds.
  — Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
• And the recipes would be for 20 kilos of croissant dough.
  — Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 9 Jan. 2026
• Yeah so some could have been up to 1000 kilos which is a ton.
  — Flora Lichtman, Scientific American, 31 May 2023
• Sometimes a piece of paper with prices per kilo written in biro.
  — Helen Gordon, WIRED, 8 Feb. 2025
• Filled with Catholic imagery, cookies in this monastery are sold by the half kilo.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 21 Dec. 2022
• At that price, sold by the kilo, the drugs would be worth more than $419 million.
  — Eliott C. McLaughlin and Rebekah Riess, CNN, 18 June 2019
• But how many new kilos or extra inches are OK?
  — Matt Slater, New York Times, 9 May 2026
• Plain tortillas wrapped in newspaper are sold by the kilo for customers to take home.
  — Hilary Cadigan, Bon Appetit, 20 June 2018
• One kilo of meth, a quarter-pound of marijuana and a firearm were seized.
  — Tim Darnell, ajc, 26 Feb. 2020
• One kilo of plastic sells for around one Israeli shekel, or 30 cents.
  — Heidi Levine, National Geographic, 7 Aug. 2019
• These would be sizable shipments (their first load was 65 kilos of pure white powder).
  — T.j. English, People.com, 30 Nov. 2024
• Dubria exports her crop to buyers as far away as Seattle for at least $5 per kilo.
  — Kieran Guilbert, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Apr. 2018
• The bull charges out of the metal door, dark brown, 400 kilos of mass on a mission to destroy.
  — Toby Muse, Rolling Stone, 3 Mar. 2024
• The temples sell it, for up to $700 a kilo, to buyers who then process, sell, and ship it all over the world.
  — Jessica Chia, Allure, 16 Feb. 2018
• Your family is going to expect every kilo to be used and spoken for.
  — Joseph Trinidad, Longreads, 16 June 2026
• Branch began to work with drug dealers in the area, and at 14 was holding half a kilo of heroin at a time.
  — Mike Dyce, SI.com, 14 Sep. 2017
• The brick was tested and was determined to be a kilo of cocaine, the spokeswoman said, adding that it will be destroyed.
  — Minyvonne Burke, NBC News, 4 Sep. 2019
• Samoudi lost 60 kilos (132 pounds), or about half his body weight, during his year in prison.
  — Jeremy Diamond, CNN Money, 9 May 2026
• That one kilo package costs around $39 in grocery stores and on the Amazon storefront.
  — Shawn Tully, Fortune, 19 July 2019
• Scott was going to sell a kilo of cocaine to a man and arrived at Kenyon Court in a red minivan.
  — David Owens, courant.com, 12 June 2018
• There is some food in the local markets, but a kilo of green peppers that cost about a dollar before the war sells for $90 now.
  — Corky Siemaszko, NBC News, 14 June 2024
• People can easily gather a hundred kilos, export them, press them for oil, or crack them and sell their flesh through the winter.
  — Katherine Rochester, Artforum, 10 July 2026
• Curling stones are made from a special type of granite and weigh almost 20 kilos (about 44 pounds).
  — Ben Morse, CNN Money, 4 Feb. 2026
• With a daintiness at odds with its 120 kilos, the bear extricates its wrist from the tie and calmly takes its leave.
  — Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
• But European eels can be procured for around €300 a kilo in France or Spain.
  — The Economist, 18 Dec. 2019
• The guardsmen freed the turtle from the jumble and seized the drugs -- more than 800 kilos of cocaine, authorities said.
  — Tracy Connor, NBC News, 19 Dec. 2017
• His small team produces 100 kilos of the stuff here each day, in flavors like sour cherry, rose with blackberries, and mastic, a type of tree resin.
  — Lale Arikoglu, Condé Nast Traveler, 27 Aug. 2024
• Removed over 31 kilos of cocaine from our streets, removed over 15 kilos of fentanyl from our streets, and seized 81 firearms.
  — Briseida Holguin, CBS News, 1 May 2026
• Among the searches, agent Paul Van Wie said, were instances when Menendez researched the worth of a gram, an ounce and a kilo of gold.
  — CBS News, 20 June 2024
• After a minor illness, his doctor prescribes an iron-rich diet and physical activity to lose a few extra kilos.
  — Ut Community Press, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Sep. 2025