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The phrase "a pound of spaghetti" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a specific quantity of spaghetti, often in the context of cooking or grocery shopping.
Example: "I need to buy a pound of spaghetti for the dinner recipe I found online."
Alternatives: "one pound of pasta" or "a pound of noodles."
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It's fast food, ready in the time it takes to cook a pound of spaghetti.
We Americans insist on cramming a pound of spaghetti into a two-and-a-half-quart pot, hoping no one will notice.
A pound of spaghetti fits nicely into the new Bialetti pasta pot from Italy, which is oval in shape and holds four quarts of water.
To see which of these factors are really significant, I put a pound of spaghetti into a pot, added just 2 quarts of cold water and 2 teaspoons salt and turned on the heat.
An entire bottle of red wine soaked up into a pound of spaghetti gives you a beautiful, gleaming, dark red heap of noodles, but it tastes -- well, it tastes weird.
Who wouldn't, when the teacher is using a Slinky and a pound of spaghetti to demonstrate what happens when an earthquake hits?
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