How to Use metric ton in a Sentence

metric ton

noun
  • That’s how many metric tons of plastic are made each year.
    — Jade Walker, CNN Money, 20 Aug. 2025
  • On shelves all around us are huge white bags of the stuff, each weighing a metric ton.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Millions of metric tons of plastics wind up in the ocean each year.
    — CBS News, 18 Apr. 2018
  • Are your kids eating a metric ton of ice cream this summer, too?
    — Jess Fleming, Twin Cities, 31 July 2019
  • Colombia seized a record 884 metric tons last year.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Last year, around this time, there was a global deficit of 1 million metric tons.
    — Christianna Silva, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Teck’s open-pit mines produce more than 21 million metric tons of coal a year.
    — Jim Robbins, New York Times, 11 July 2023
  • The world consumes a huge amount – nearly 2 billion metric tons each year.
    — Rachel Ramirez, CNN, 23 June 2024
  • More than 5 million metric tons of air freight passed through the airport last year, the council said.
    — Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2019
  • Prices for the most common type of bunker have been running around $440 per metric ton so far this year.
    — Costas Paris, WSJ, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Salmon farms pump more than 350 metric tons of antibiotics into the sea each year.
    — John Bartlett, NPR, 8 June 2025
  • Along with production, drug seizures also have soared to 654 metric tons so far this year.
    — Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • The $20 billion project would yield about 9 million metric tons of products a year.
    — Summer Said, WSJ, 19 July 2018
  • Almost half of that winds up in landfills, and up to 12 million metric tons pollute the oceans.
    — Matthew Sedacca, Scientific American, 1 Aug. 2017
  • Scientists estimate the mass of the dust trail could tip the scales at around 1 billion metric tons.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 Dec. 2019
  • Other figures put the number at 13 billion metric tons of oil.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Other figures put the number at 13 billion metric tons of oil.
    — Ellie Cook, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Aug. 2025
  • The world produced a record 62 million metric tons in 2022.
    — Dave Smith, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2025
  • The world’s 700 million iPhones make up roughly a tenth of a million metric tons.
    — Fortune, 20 June 2018
  • This is all on top of the 25 million metric tons of soybeans agreed to last October.
    — ABC News, 17 May 2026
  • These fossils lead them to a discovery of a sea-dwelling mammal that would’ve weighed up to 340 metric tons.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Popular Science, 3 Aug. 2023
  • The correct volume is 165 million metric tons.
    — Ella Nilsen, CNN Money, 6 May 2026
  • It’s intended to put nearly half a metric ton of payload into low-Earth orbit.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 11 May 2026
  • That equates to about 13 million metric tons of methane lost, enough to fuel 10 million homes.
    — Timothy Puko, WSJ, 21 June 2018
  • Prices were tipped to go up to 2,205 yuan per metric ton — the equivalent of about $1 per gallon.
    — Eunice Yoon, CNBC, 23 Mar. 2026
  • That would be 165,000 or 170,000 metric tons.
    — Alex Crippen, CNBC, 18 Oct. 2025
  • Gravity-2 is expected to lift on the order of 20 metric tons to low-Earth orbit.
    — Eric Berger, ArsTechnica, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This biogas voyage produces 50 to 55 metric tons.
    — Ryan Craggs, Travel + Leisure, 15 Jan. 2026
  • That’s 2,836 million metric tons of grass flowers matured into seed.
    — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
  • At the time, India had no major ports that could host 300 million metric tons per year, with plans to build three by the end of the decade.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 4 Sep. 2025

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