How to Use pound in a Sentence

pound

1 of 2 noun

• Then your heart starts to pound.
  — Stephanie Land, Time, 30 Oct. 2025
• A lot of these fish grow one pound a year.
  — Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
• Hall froze 3 pounds and cooked the rest.
  — Betty Lin-Fisher, USA Today, 1 June 2026
• Look at what a pound of ground beef can get you.
  — Mary Shannon Wells, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
• Beef has since come down to about $6 a pound.
  — Mery Mogollon, Los Angeles Times, 30 Jan. 2026
• Forty, 50 pounds is a lot to put on.
  — Armando Tinoco, Deadline, 23 Mar. 2026
• The boats weighed about 300 pounds.
  — Alan Gionet, CBS News, 3 June 2026
• The pieces start from 200 pounds.
  — Hikmat Mohammed, Footwear News, 10 Oct. 2025
• Zairah now weighs 7 pounds, 10 ounces.
  — Wendy Grossman Kantor, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
• All for a shitty forty pounds a day.
  — Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026
• Clouds can weigh over one million pounds!
  — Andy Hoglund, Entertainment Weekly, 12 Apr. 2026
• Sell hundreds of pounds of cheese.
  — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 1 Apr. 2026
• Don't lose a single adorable pound.
  — Liza Esquibias, USA Today, 18 June 2026
• Some bore the full 90 pounds of weight on their back.
  — Logan Smith, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2026
• Rice, too, is up to over a dollar per pound.
  — Jake Angelo, Fortune, 1 Mar. 2026
• Plus, this one reads both kilos and pounds.
  — Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 29 Sep. 2025
• Kesselman came equipped with a half-pound joint.
  — Steve Bloom, Rolling Stone, 20 Apr. 2026
• The rest of the group is 249 pounds and up.
  — Mike Kaye june 17, Charlotte Observer, 17 June 2026
• That said, shrimp is still cheaper per pound than beef.
  — Nick Lichtenberg, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026
• Rush is 6 feet tall and weighs 160 pounds.
  — Elyssa Kaufman, CBS News, 11 Apr. 2026
• Reaves is 6-foot-5, 210 pounds.
  — Jim Alexander, Oc Register, 9 Mar. 2026
• These bears can weigh up to 1,300 pounds.
  — Rachel Raposas, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
• After all, the shoe weighs less than 2 pounds on its own.
  — Stephanie Osmanski, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Jan. 2026
• Last year a turkey was 98 cents per pound.
  — Ella Gonzales, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Nov. 2025
• Already slim, Robin dropped five or so pounds.
  — Michele Promaulayko, Allure, 17 June 2026
• Provyn is six feet, one inch tall and weighs about 145 pounds.
  — Alexa Newsom, Kansas City Star, 16 June 2026
• The teen is 5-foot-4 and weighs 118 pounds.
  — Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 5 Jan. 2026
• Common weights are 3 and 8 pounds.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 27 Apr. 2026
• Last year Bryant took fourth place at 157 pounds.
  — Rick Cantu, Austin American Statesman, 15 Feb. 2026
• Get ready to see some ground and pound on the South Lawn.
  — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 7 May 2026

pound

2 of 2 verb

• Waves pounded against the side of the boat.
• The horses pounded up the track.
• Heavy waves pounded the shore.
• He came pounding down the stairs.
• Pound the herbs and garlic until they form a paste.
• He pounded his fist on the table.
• The wheat is pounded into flour.
• He got frustrated and started to pound the piano keys.
• The metal is heated and then pounded into shape.
• The boxers were really pounding each other.
• Get out there and pound the pavement.
  — Rachel Chang, Travel + Leisure, 27 Jan. 2026
• The best way to do that is to throw strikes and pound the zone.
  — Abbey Mastracco, New York Daily News, 7 June 2026
• Her heart was pounding like a bird in a cage.
  — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 14 Apr. 2026
• The man simply pounds the zone.
  — Dan Freedman, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Each time, my heart would start pounding.
  — Alex Cuadros, ProPublica, 23 June 2026
• My heart was pounding in my chest and in my ears.
  — Literary Hub, 29 Sep. 2025
• Here’s what to know about pounding the stairs and bone health.
  — Currie Engel, Health, 23 June 2026
• For days, Cronkite’s words pounded in my head.
  — Kathy Hersh, The Orlando Sentinel, 3 Jan. 2026
• Do not attempt to pound down or over-compact the soil.
  — Mary Marlowe Leverette, Southern Living, 26 Feb. 2026
• John Wayne didn’t jump on top of him and start pounding him.
  — David Remnick, New Yorker, 22 May 2026
• The ball would pound the hardwood like a hammer pounds a nail.
  — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
• It gets pounded into our heads — stay low, stay low.
  — Paul Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 30 Aug. 2025
• The Democrats flocked there to raise their fists and pound the podiums.
  — Laura Washington, Chicago Tribune, 20 Aug. 2025
• Not just clapping, but pounding his fists against his chest.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2026
• Rain pounds down in a stinging curtain.
  — Kansas City Star, 22 May 2026
• Teams go bonkers when the player pounds their school name on the bracket.
  — John Maffei, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 June 2026
• But that didn’t stop the sales team from pounding the phones and the pavement.
  — Chris Degnan, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2025
• My heart was pounding, like pounding.
  — Shania Russell, Entertainment Weekly, 23 Sep. 2025
• One of the deputies shone his light through the window and pounded on the door again.
  — Jack Crosbie, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2026
• The drums of war are pounding on the doorstep of Gaza City.
  — Ibrahim Dahman, CNN Money, 21 Aug. 2025