How to Use kilogram in a Sentence

kilogram

noun
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  • The bins weigh and charge per kilogram of organic waste.
    — Rivka Galchen, The New Yorker, 2 Mar. 2020
  • Her olive oil comes in an industrial-size bottle, and her coffee in one-kilogram bags.
    — Priya Krishna, New York Times, 11 May 2020
  • Other drones may be loaded with as much as a kilogram of narcotics and flown to the U.S. side.
    — Anna Giaritelli, Washington Examiner, 5 June 2020
  • The government rate of mahuwa is Rs30 per kilogram but there is no market and no traders.
    — Hridayesh Joshi, Quartz India, 8 May 2020
  • Officials say the brothers had more than 90 kilograms of methamphetamine.
    — Kevin Krause, Dallas News, 21 Feb. 2020
  • If the car has a mass of 2 kilograms, that would give it a velocity of 10 meters per second after one second.
    — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 18 Oct. 2024
  • Extracting a single kilogram of copper can now produce 200 kilograms of sludge.
    — Warren Cornwall, Science | AAAS, 20 Aug. 2020
  • In addition to the nationwide arrests, agents seized more than 20 kilograms of drugs and $20 million in cash.
    — NBC News, 12 Mar. 2020
  • Inside the traps were more than 11 kilograms of drugs, including fentanyl and heroin, as well as tools used to brand, package, distribute and traffic narcotics, the indictment said.
    — Aaron Katersky, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2024
  • By comparison, the human brain, which is also kilogram-sized, performs up to 10^16 operations per second.
    — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 28 Aug. 2020
  • One way would be to say that a kilogram is the mass of 1 liter of water.
    — Rhett Allain, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • The entire device weighs 1.4 kilograms (3 pounds) and folds up to the size of a clutch purse.
    — Emily Matchar, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Jan. 2024
  • The cost of a kilogram of onions is greater than the minimum wage for a day’s work in the Philippines.
    — Time, 9 Jan. 2023
  • The rocket was small, just 2.1 meters long, with a mass of 93 kilograms.
    — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 7 Apr. 2023
  • The price for a kilogram of his beans rarely exceeds two U.S. dollars.
    — New York Times, 11 Aug. 2021
  • The armor weighed roughly 18–19 kilograms, was quite rigid, and was made out of thick bronze plates.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 30 May 2024
  • Just their head equipment can weigh up to 15 kilograms.
    — Pablo Sandoval, Variety, 1 July 2024
  • But on your behalf, the roads and buildings and bridges out there are using more than a kilogram.
    — Seth Borenstein, Anchorage Daily News, 23 June 2022
  • They’re often marked in kilograms (1 kg = about 2.2 pounds).
    — Caitlin Carlson, Women's Health, 17 July 2023
  • Up to 100 kilograms can be needed to coat a plane, and everything is done by hand.
    — Antonio Dini, WIRED, 27 Aug. 2024
  • The courier was not charged for the drug offense as troopers didn’t disclose to him that a kilogram was found.
    — Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 30 Nov. 2021
  • The cocaine appeared to have been cut off a compressed kilogram.
    — James Whitlow, baltimoresun.com, 2 July 2021
  • The people in the ivermectin group received a dose of 400 micrograms per kilogram for the first three days.
    — Beth Mole, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2022
  • For example, a kilogram of camel meat that cost about $4 before the holy month now costs about $6.
    — Omar Faruk, ajc, 29 Mar. 2023
  • The servers carry up to six mass in each hand, weighing roughly 12 kilograms (26 pounds).
    — Ulrike Lemmin-Woolfrey, Contributor, CNBC, 24 Sep. 2024
  • That would be about $1,550 per kilogram in today’s dollars.
    — Glenn Harlan Reynolds, National Review, 20 May 2021
  • Aim for something in the neighborhood of 1 to 2 milligrams of caffeine per each kilogram of body weight.
    — Alisa Bowman, Discover Magazine, 22 Dec. 2022
  • In summers past, the price of sardines has reached 7 euros a kilogram (about $8.50) as wholesalers arrived from Spain to snap up the catch.
    — Peter S. Goodman, chicagotribune.com, 11 June 2021
  • In summers past, the price of sardines has reached 7 euros a kilogram (about $8.50), as wholesalers arrived from Spain to snap up the catch.
    — New York Times, 11 June 2021
  • Thanks to SpaceX, that number has fallen to $2,720 per kilogram and promises to come down still further.
    — Alexander William Salter, National Review, 20 Nov. 2020

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