How to Use poundage in a Sentence

poundage

noun
  • Purdy recommends adding a pound or two to the total poundage.
    — Shannon Ullman, Health, 20 Apr. 2023
  • Black cod prices are broken into five weight categories by poundage.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2021
  • This decrease is attributed to the decrease in poundage sold.
    — Quartz Bot, Quartz, 14 Nov. 2024
  • For thru-hikers who need to cut poundage from every part of their hiking gear, this is your pair of lightweight hiking shoes.
    — Outdoor Life, 5 Mar. 2021
  • And we were limited by a poundage, and days at sea, and all these different mechanisms used to constrain the fishery.
    — Dan Morrison, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
  • Speaking of mass, all that new tech definitely contributes to extra poundage.
    — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The fishery produced the third highest catch, fish poundage and value on record dating back to 1975.
    — Laine Welch | Fish Factor, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Nov. 2021
  • Parsons said this year's poundage — set under a co-management system with eight Chippewa bands — is identical in size to last year.
    — Tony Kennedy, Star Tribune, 24 Feb. 2021
  • Wilson said the poundage and prices will be revealed next month at the IPHC interim meeting.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Focusing on structure and efficiency over maximum poundage will be your best approach.
    — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 27 May 2023
  • Upping the poundage can cause additional shoulder stress due to the rotational movements involved.
    — Jeff Tomko, Men's Health, 29 June 2022
  • Yet Schell points out that guides carry first-aid kits, repair kits, and evacuation sleds without consideration of poundage.
    — Outside Online, 5 Dec. 2021
  • That’s the program through USDA that pays extra poundage to make up for losses from ongoing trade disputes.
    — Anchorage Daily News, 22 Dec. 2020
  • Fortunately, the all-new Taurus powertrain deals easily with the excess poundage.
    — Csaba Csere, Car and Driver, 2 July 2020
  • Both companies are big players in the Gulf’s menhaden netting industry, which represents the largest segment—in terms of sheer poundage—of the region’s larger commercial fishery.
    — Outdoor Life, 21 Sep. 2023
  • The Buccaneers' double team became a quadruple team, and soon, the Colts All-Pro defensive tackle was on the ground, his knee mangled beneath the poundage.
    — Nate Atkins, The Indianapolis Star, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The company worried about the gearbox's weight not because of performance reasons but to keep the Slingshot at a poundage where it can be classified as an autocycle, the rules for which in America vary widely from state to state.
    — Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 8 Apr. 2021
  • In an essay published by The Conversation, Campione explains that for years, paleontologists followed two rival approaches for tallying a dinosaur's poundage.
    — Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Sep. 2020

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