Sentences with 'pound'
Example sentences and phrases with the word pound and other words derived from it.
• « In the early 1830s, the battle over tariffs took on greater urgency as the price of cotton continued to fall. In 1818, cotton cost 31 cents per pound. By 1831, it had plunged to eight cents a pound. »
• « The cotton gin allowed a slave to remove the seeds from fifty pounds of cotton per day, compared to one pound if done by hand. »