Sentence examples for dump pounds from inspiring English sources

He used to dump pounds of flour on himself until at a radio station benefit in Seattle, he got some in his eye and it itched for weeks.

Investors can, of course, dump the pound because it is not part of the Euro.

— On one side of a factory here, workers dump 500-pound sacks of pine chips into a hopper.

On Feb. 4, McKnight dumped 44,000 pounds of his product, called Fieldsaver 90, onto the St. Lucie infield.

Americans are still the undisputed champions of trash, dumping 4.6 pounds per person per day, according to the E.P.A.'s most recent figures.

We've dumped 400 pounds of salt on our driveway in an attempt to stave off the ice (it hasn't worked).

Perhaps the most memorable thing the Dave Matthews Band has done in Chicago is dumping 800 pounds of human waste on an architectural boat tour.

That already happened to a limited extent in mid-2012 when a California businessman, Russ George, dumped 200,000 pounds of iron-rich dust off the coast of British Columbia, Canada, in an effort — many say publicity stunt — aimed at spurring a massive plankton bloom.

Tim Hunt says the global carbon divestment campaign has been incredibly successful in getting a wide range of institutions to dump billions of pounds of shares in carbon-intensive industries.

Jane Holtz Kay calculated in her 1997 book, "Asphalt Nation," that in less time than it takes you to read this sentence, Americans riding around in cars and trucks will dump another 180,000 pounds of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere — and thereby accelerate global warming and hasten the advent of catastrophic flooding in coastal cities like New York.

Kirk was speaking about BP's 2007 plan to dump thousands of pounds of pollutants into Lake Michigan.