tons

/ tʌnz /

plural noun

1. a large amount or number:

   tons of money

   I have tons of shoes

adverb

1. (intensifier)

   I looked and felt tons better

Example Sentences

Those raised for their meat (200 million tons of it a year) can barely walk because their breasts have been so enlarged.

From The Daily Beast

In fact, in recent months, financial investors have made tons of money by betting against Putin.

From The Daily Beast

We, the West, send tons of money down there, and in my view a lot of it ends up in a Swiss bank.

From The Daily Beast

Or that tons of enemy countries are stockpiling Ebola in secret labs?

From The Daily Beast

Are they really going to keep spending tons of money to keep these seats?

From The Daily Beast

To keep the roads fit for travelling on, requires about 60,000 tons of stone per year.

From Project Gutenberg

Several tons of leaden pipe were dug up in Fleet street, London, laid down 300 years before.

From Project Gutenberg

We rolled last week 140 tons of iron with it, and it will roll as fast with the both pair of rolls, as they can bring to it.'

From Project Gutenberg

About 350 tons of the acid, which is used in some dying processes, &c., is sent out annually.

From Project Gutenberg

In the next few days they stowed some four thousand tons' dead weight into the Dimbula, and took her out from Liverpool.

From Project Gutenberg

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