Sentence examples for cubic yard from inspiring English sources
noun
A unit of volumetric measurement equivalent to a cube one yard in each dimension.
In America, cement costs $70 a cubic yard.
In January 1905, the rate was 16 cents a cubic yard.
The government is paying $32.50 to $58 a cubic yard for debris removal.
Generally, natural pads are rated according to the number of ounces per cubic yard they weigh.
Refuge, unloaded from barges, covers 729,000 cubic yard so far.
50,000 worms will use up a cubic yard of compost a month.
Restoring lost salt marsh is expensive, costing $30 to $40 a cubic yard, Mr. Matsil said.
Mr. Grecco is now paying $15 per cubic yard for his garbage collection, he said.
In casual speech, a yard (e.g., of concrete, gravel, or topsoil) may refer to a cubic yard.
Her city had a private contract to clean debris for $7.80 a cubic yard, but now relies on the corps, which is paying its contractor $17 to $19 a cubic yard for the same work.
Here's the capper: there is less than one atom per cubic yard floating in intergalactic space, while on earth one cubic yard of air holds about 50 trillion trillion atoms.
