Sentence examples for a dollar a pound from inspiring English sources

But they don't call them that at the farmers' market, he added, "because onions sell for a dollar a pound and shallots for $8 a pound".

Prices varied: $490 for a topsquare box wagon in 1884; Edwin Booth paid, in 1892, a trifle over a dollar a pound for a 1604 pound landau for his daughter.

"I paid a dollar a pound," he said.

The open-market price was less than a dollar a pound.

It seems we work all year for less than a dollar a pound".

The price at the dock was about a dollar a pound, half of what Buddy got the year Aaron was born.

Now it is a $1 a pound or more, if it can be foraged at all.

He surveyed the counter and gestured toward a mound of $29.99-a-pound wild-caught salmon.

Goldenseal, a root found only in North America, now costs $100 a pound, up from $15 a pound a decade ago.

A year ago it sold for about $42 a kilogram ($19 a pound).

Potato kugel, $7.99 a pound; brisket, $25.99 a pound; gefilte fish, $14.99 a pound; chopped liver, $10.99 a pound.