Sentence examples for a pound of soil from inspiring English sources

The spacecraft has a small return vehicle that is meant to hold about half a pound of soil samples, plus other instruments and equipment.

Although a mission to bring back a piece of Mars -- probably about a pound of soil -- will not occur for at least a decade, designing, building and testing the quarantine center will take at least seven years, the panel said.

He purchased a hundred pounds of soil to put into the bathtub, three bushels of peat moss, eight rose bushes, and eight assorted perennials.

To raise the acidity (i.e., lower the pH) of sandy soils by one point, add a pound of sulfur for every 100 square feet; other soils need about twice that amount.

The 10 scientists have ap plied for a joint patent on the process, which requires about 100 pounds of lunar soil to make a pound of water.

Further demonstrating how waterproof this burned soil really is, Wells pours half a pound of it, like loose brown sugar, into a beaker of water.

For example, in the Pound of Wood question, when asked where a pound of wood comes from, Olivia claimed "The air around it will lose weight and also the soil could lose some weight but it won't lose, like, a ton; the air will lose most of the weight".

A pound of chicken?

A pound of bay scallops.

Instead he demanded a pound of flesh.

A pound of beef requires 183 gallons.