Pound Sentence Examples

Sofia wanted to pound Jake's face in.

There was something else in her eyes that made his blood pound harder.

Fred shrugged as he continued to pound away at the keys.

This fund is raised by the rate of 6d.in the pound on the assessable value of the county of London, and redistributed among the boroughs in proportion to their population.

Foreign gold coins, especially the pound sterling (par value 110 piastres) and the French 20-franc piece (par value 872 piastres) have free currency.

She was as nervous as a cat in a dog pound.

Her apartment was cold, and sunlight streamed through the blinds, making her head pound harder.

That meant for every pound someone made, he owed more than a pound in taxes.

His head started to pound.

A few of the gents nodded off but the pastor would quickly bring them back we a raised voice and a fist pound, prompting a hearty Amen.

Darian's head began to pound.

On the other hand, a pound of premium ground coffee can provide 42 six-ounce cups at about twenty-four cents per cup.

But in what sense is there "a half," which is the same for "half a foot" as "half a pound" ?

In other words, each pound of chlorate would require an expenditure of nearly 5.1 e.h.p. hours.

Pure crystalline calcium carbide yields 5.8 cubic feet of acetylene per pound at ordinary temperatures, but the carbide as sold commercially, being a mixture of the pure crystalline material with the crust which in the electric furnace surrounds the ingot, yields at the best 5 cubic feet of gas per pound under proper conditions of generation.

So, although a price of 6'5 cents a pound covered expenses of the planter of Burley in the Blue Grass, who could use the same land for tobacco once in four years, this price did not repay the hill planter.

In 1906 and in 1907 the crop was very large; the pool sold its lower grades of the 1906 crop at 16 cents a pound to the American Tobacco Company and forced the independent buyers out of business; and the Burley Society decided in 1907 to grow no more tobacco until the 1906 and 1907 crops were sold, making the price high enough to pay for this period of idleness.

When the Houses of Parliament were burned down in 1834, the pound was lost and the yard was injured.

Orange liqueur flamed chocolate fondue is served with strawberries, apples, melon, banana, pineapple, pound cake, and marshmallows.

His touch was like an electric shock, forcing her heart to pound.

A "troy pound " and a new standard yard, as well as secondary standards, were constructed by direction of parliament in 1758-1760, and were deposited with the Clerk of the House of Commons.

We were all as nervous as cats at a dog pound.

Liebreich having apparently shown that it acts upon the blood in the same way as carbon monoxide to form a stable com pound.

The ounce, for instance, is one-sixteenth of the pound, but it is impossible to find 16 objects such that their weights shall be exactly equal and that the sum of their weights shall be exactly equal to the weight of the standard pound.

Fishing operations are carried on extensively in Lake Erie, the fish being taken with gill nets, seins and pound nets.

The Romans commonly used fractions with denominator 12; these were described as unciae (ounces), being twelfths of the as (pound).

He was a great advocate of the pound and mil scheme.

The gas which is obtained by the destructive distillation of coal, and which we employ as our chief illuminant, is not a definite com pound, but a mechanical mixture of several gases, some Gaseous .

Under these conditions producer gas ceases to exist as a by-product, and the gases of the blow consist merely of the incombustible products of com plete combustion, carbon dioxide and nitrogen, the result being that more than three times / the heat is developed for the combustion of the same amount of fuel, and nearly double the quantity of water gas can be made per pound of fuel than was before possible.

In practical work about 4 lb of steam is decomposed for each pound of anthracite consumed, and no more than 5% of carbon dioxide is found in the resulting gas.

Every pound of it is weighed and accounted for, and entered upon the books, so as to show the exact product of each division of the farm.

The country was still bearing an income-tax of elevenpence in the pound; it appeared that the old sources of revenue were inadequate; and meanwhile the statistics of trade, it was argued, showed that the English free-import system hampered English trade while providing the foreigner with a free market.

A pound of air, representing about cub.

Each pound of steam can thus be made to give up some 950 units of heat; while in a good steam engine only about 200 units are utilized in the steam cylinder per pound of steam, and in addition allowance has to be made for mechanical inefficiency.

The warmth of his hands as he slid them under her blouse made her heart pound.

He could feel the blood flowing through her veins, and hear her heart pound.

Bloodlust kicked in, and his head began to pound.

In Scotland, the maximum fine on summary conviction is £40,000, or an unlimited fine on conviction on indictment.

The measures used were the local basket, full-size being one bushel, and the pound avoirdupois.

Their collective backsides contained enough material, pound for pound, to feed a small nation for a week.

The party is aware that they make unlikely bedfellows with the Save the Pound brigade.

The drawing on the cover depicted a caveman eating what looked like a quarter pound cheeseburger.

Peel and slice the garlic and onions, slice the chillies and pound them all in a mortar with the ginger and mustard seeds.

Another golf ball size of mashed bread was introduced, three more chub followed, all around the two pound mark.

Note - Some prefer not to pound the chillies, but to add them just before putting the chutney into the bottles.

Each recipient having a quarter a pound of meat, potatoes, plum pudding and a penny loaf.

However, the British economy is now lumbered with high interest rates and a very high level of the pound.

We had an American mainframe that couldn't even do a pound sign.

Friday 14th January 2005 Greyhound stadium delay A planned multi-million pound makeover at Great Yarmouth Greyhound stadium has been put back.

Is it fair to starve us to death and then complain that your pound of flesh looks malnourished?

Previous government attempts to manipulate the pound have badly misfired.

He plans to scrap the pound within two years.

Also losing the pound is part of our identity loss.

Dean also gave her encouragement by giving her a pound coin every time she lost a pound coin every time she lost a pound.

A very stylish multi-million pound Leisure Center is now in business.

The small and large electric pumps filling up the summit pound.

Four million pound boost for Salfordâs economy 26 July 2006 Multi-million regeneration investment to create city park.

I shall convert British pounds sterling into gold roubles at a rate of ten gold roubles to one pound sterling.

Butter costs ten rubles [$ 5] per pound, and clothes and boots are impossible in price.

Then our news sources were delighted to pound us with horror stories of wholesale slaughter - which turned out to be entirely untrue.

The prices displayed on are web site are in £ GBP British pound sterling.

Of Mutability has a superscript from Pound's Cantos.

Butler's fine of a little under a pound in 1881 is likely to have been smaller than his gross takings for that day.

Each tomato, which are a beefsteak tomato type, can weigh from a pound upwards to two pounds each.

Some dogs do well when given mild tranquilizers such as acepromazine at 0.25mg / pound.

That is, the pound troy with us contains 11 oz.

An artist has won a twenty thousand pound prize for placing fluorescent tubes under a power line.

This go-ahead company now employs over 35 full-time staff and has a multimillion pound turnover.

Pound is one of those pompous twits who espouse political correctness and believe they know best what is good for you.

With advancing years comes an ever-expanding waistline, the rule being an average increase of 1 pound of weight per year.

McClellan had planned to use navy warships to pound Yorktown into dust.

The White Wonder watermelon produces a good crop of small, 3 to 10 pound, round icebox type watermelons.

The toughest beasts in Africa, pound for pound, are the blue wildebeest and the zebra.

Housing windfall for OIC Orkney Islands Council has received a £ 3 million pound windfall for housing.

Has a twin motor push glider and weighs about a quarter of a pound and with its 26 inch wingspan.

The pound firmed against the Japanese yen, reaching a new five hear high at 224 yen in March.

Now, we may select any definite quantity of work we please as our unit, as, for example, the work done in lifting a pound a foot high from the sea-level in the latitude of London, which is the unit of work generally adopted by British engineers, and is called the "foot-pound."

If a pound weight be suspended by a string passing over pulley, in descending through io ft.

The magnitude of F when p and e are put each equal to unity, is usually called the tractive force of the locomotive per pound of mean effective pressure in the cylinders.

When the Civil War was over, the abnormally high price of cotton made cotton raising for more than a decade a great assistance to the people in recovering from ruin, but when the price had steadily declined from 23.98 cents a pound in 1870 to 10.38 cents a pound in 1879, they turned to the erection and operation of cotton mills.

The general monetary confusion is greatly intensified by the fact that the piastre unit varies for almost every province; thus, while the pound at Constantinople is counted at 108 piastres silver, it is at about 127 piastres for one kind of transaction and 180 for another in Smyrna, 135 piastres at Adrianople, 140 at Jerusalem, and so forth, accounts being kept in " abusive piastres," which exist no longer.

The planters in the Black Patch had met a combination of the buyers by forming a pool, the Planters' Protective Association, into which 40,000 growers were forced by " night-riding " and other forms of coercion and persuasion, and had thus secured an advance to I I cents a pound from the "regie " buyers and had shown the efficacy of pooling methods in securing better prices for the tobacco crop. Following their example, the planters of the Burley formed the Burley Tobacco Society, a Burley pool, with headquarters at Winchester and associated with the American Society of Equity, which promoted in general the pooling of different crops throughout the country.

But, as this is probably the same as the English monetary pound, or tower pound of 5400, which was in use earlier (see Saxon coins), it seems more likely that this pound (which is common in Roman weights) was directly inherited from the Roman civilization.

For the 2005/06 season, Ospreys has moved into a new multi-million pound purpose-built stadium, possibly the best of its kind in Europe.

Grate over some nutmeg, and mix in about half a pound of ricotta cream cheese.

She will rue the day she ever walked into my pound shop !

He can pound his playdough, use his paws to scrabble in the sand and bang his drum when he wants to be Loud !

This is a silver half pound or ten shilling coin dated 1642.

This parish was rated to the four shilling in the pound Land Tax in 1696, for one year, at £ 86 10s.

Average size of fish in the 1996 season was just over a pound, with many specimens several times that weight caught.

Pound for pound it is often better bi-wiring because you can afford a much better quality speaker cable.

The prices displayed on are web site are in £ GBP British pound Sterling.

Up to a quarter of a million stigmas of the flowers had to be picked to make one pound of saffron.

If the pound strengthened against the euro by 10 %, you would pay only £ 123,000 for the villa.

Foundation Token Coin Key Rings How many times have you needed a pound coin for your supermarket trolley or sports locker?

Of Mutability has a superscript from Pound 's Cantos.

Butler 's fine of a little under a pound in 1881 is likely to have been smaller than his gross takings for that day.

The school was the half timbered building at the end of Pound Lane.

In 1824 the troy pound was defined or confirmed.

Precious metals are measured in troy weight, in which one pound equals 12 ounces.

Environmental testing has shown the Trent 900 to be the world 's cleanest large turbofan engine measured by emissions per pound of thrust.

The unequal treaties The victorious allies wanted their pound of flesh.

P&O will take a 240 million pound exceptional charge in the current financial year as a result of the review and write-down of goodwill.

Rahman was a twin, and while her sister was larger, weighing 1 pound, 4 ounces, she was still considered dangerously tiny as well.

Weighing in at a mere 1 pound, 6 ounces, he was considered the earliest premature baby in the world at the time.

Often you'll pay $1,000 or more for every pound you can shave off the weight of your racing bike.

Beginners should stick to the 20 pound range for string tension.

For example, you may have always used an eight pound ball but after trying many different balls you discover that a twelve pound ball enhances your performance greatly.

You walk by an entire display or bulk onions that are $1.99 for a thirty pound bag.

You can get a Kindle with a 6 inch screen that is only 8.7 oz. The Sony Reader Daily Edition has a 7inch screen and weighs 9.6 oz. To have a large screen, you will need a Kindle or iPad and both weigh over a pound.

Amazon charges a base shipping charge of per order plus an additional amount per pound.

What may be adorable in a four ounce kitten is less adorable in a fifteen pound cat, so don't encourage rough play with people, or you'll have a confused cat when he grows up and suddenly no one wants to play-fight with him any more.

A grown female Maine Coon usually weighs between nine and 12 pounds, and male Coons are usually in the 13 to 18 pound range.

The old adage "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" certainly applies to dealing with cats and hairballs.

A three pound bag lasts as long as a twenty-one pound bag of traditional clay litter.

Lugging a thirty-five pound container of cat litter to your car or two-story apartment building is a hassle.

Some people call a rescue service, which acts much like a municipal pet pound.

In this scenario, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

A fifteen pound bag of the dry food will cost twenty dollars or more.

Many high quality cat foods can be purchased for around $10.00 for a three or four pound bag.

Keep in mind that although the flushable litter costs more, one pound of it has much more volume than one pound of clay based litter.

The litter is available in a variety of sizes from seven pound bags to 34 pounds.

You can expect to pay five dollars a pound and up for commercially prepared raw cat food.

While commercially prepared raw pet food costs in excess of five dollars a pound, you can find inexpensive cuts of meat in your grocery store for a fraction of that cost.

The daily caloric requirements for an eight-pound cat with no special needs is 30 calories per pound for weight maintenance.

If your cat is active, you can figure about 30 calories per pound for a daily calorie intake.

Using a 100 pound cannon ball, the magazine attempted to break all of the water bottles.

One pound of steel manufactured from recycled steel can power a 60-watt light bulb for over a day.

Given its price tag, up to $2,700 per pound, you may assume it's sweet ambrosia.

Buying one pound weights is the best healthy upgrade you can make to your fitness routine.

Users are able to make their own cyber pets or adopt existing virtual animals from the "Neo Pound".

When choosing your turkey, keep in mind that a fourteen to sixteen pound turkey will feed about 12 people.

Plan for one pound of turkey per person if there are no other meats being served.

Thawing time will be approximately 30 minutes per pound.

To thaw in a microwave, please check the manufacturer's directions for settings and minutes per pound for turkeys.

A 10-14 pound bird should take four hours to cook.

Cook until the internal temperature is at least 175-180 degrees fahrenheit, which should be about 30 minutes for each pound of lamb.

Pound cake - this heavier cake will hold its shape very well under the weight of your fruit.

If you take the time to pre-measure the bags out into half or full pound bags, you can then just grab the ham you need from the freezer without having to try to cut and weigh it all out when the ham is one big frozen block of ham ice.

I suggest weighing the ham out into half-pound bags, this way if your recipe calls for a pound and a half of leftover ham, you just have to grab three bags.

Sometimes, chicken piccata recipes ask the cook to pound the chicken, but I have found that I get good results just by butterflying them and separating the halves.

Figure that you will need about one rib per two people (or 1/2 pound of meat).

A good rule of thumb is to allow 12-15 minutes per pound for a rare roast and 15-18 minutes for a medium rare roast.

You will need a 1/2 pound of andouille sausage, but if you can't find andouille at the market don't panic.

Finish a good southern meal with pound cake, peach cobbler, sweet potato pie, or caramel cake.

I typically use about a half pound of any cold cut found in the deli case except for turkey because the turkey will be making its entrance later.

Cardstock weights can be a little difficult to understand, but the pound numbers you see represent the weight of 500 sheets of paper with dimensions of 20 inches by 26 inches.

A more flexible boot provides more shock absorption for skiers who like to pound through the bumps, or need a more reactive boot in the trees.

As your heart is racing the blood may pound in your ears, while your mind fills with thoughts of "What's happening to me?" and "Am I in any danger?"

In this way, it is not uncommon to feel slightly dizzy or lightheaded, either before your heart begins to pound or after.

If may sound strange, but making your heart pound, on purpose, can actually have a calming effect.

Your body has a "fight of flight" reaction to new or dangerous situations and your adrenaline kicks in, causing your heart to pound and your hands to sweat.

Set realistic goals like a pound a week so you keep at it.

One pound of kale, for example, has more protein than a pound of beef, as well as being full of fiber, iron and vitamin C, which helps you absorb that iron.

When using TVP as a meat substitute, one cup of dry TVP equals about one pound of meat when reconstituted.

For winter weddings try chocolate, white chocolate, mocha, red velvet, or a rich butter pound cake.

To cover a two-layer 8- or 9-inch round cake, you'll need about one pound of fondant.

Although recent gossip purported Britney was expecting a girl, on September 12, 2006, Britney Spears gave birth to a 6 pound, 11 ounce baby boy.

As a result of hospital staff error, the six pound twelve ounce twin Thomas and his five pound nine ounce sister Zoe, were give not 10 units, but 10,000 units of Heparin, resulting in an accidental overdose.

Being that he is about six feet four and weighs in at around 265 pounds, you would think he would leave some sort of mark on a four foot eleven 90 pound woman, right?

If you aren't familiar with football, Flozell Adams is a 6 foot 7, 338 pound Tackle for the Cowboys.

Upon graduating, he wasn't finished with football and the Canadian Football League drafted the 6 foot 4 inch 290 pound athlete, but he was cut a couple of months later.

In 2009, Cameron Douglas reportedly accepted $15,000 from an undercover agent in exchange for half a pound of meth.

Anyone, much less a 110 pound woman, who found themselves on the losing end of any sort of scuffle with Tito Ortiz would have "visible injuries."

Some sizes are meant to accommodate infants as tiny as one pound.

That said, a visit to your local rescue or dog pound will reveal that a Labrador Retriever and lab mixed breeds abound, as do many large breed dogs.

They can either grow into well-behaved dogs with the proper training or into hundred pound perpetual toddlers, capable of mass destruction and unreasonable demands.

Can you recommend a brand of seat belt for my 40 pound dog?

Weston, and W Hotels - Both impose an 80 pound weight limit on pets, but the General Manager has the discretion to lift the ban at will.

We've all heard that old saying, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

They mobilized to help before the state came to collect the puppies and their mother, take them to the pound and put the dogs to sleep.

There are several Toy breeds that fall in the five pound range, but please understand that a dog's condition is more important than a weight dictated by a breed standard.

I imagine the world must seem quite awesome from the perspective of a five pound dog, don't you think?

I have a usually healthy seven-year-old, fifty-five pound hound mix that seems to be sick.

I bought him the same food he was being fed at the pound.

There's an insatiable curiosity to know Fluffy's ancestry, especially when she's been rescued from the local pound.

Barbara's Canine Catering, the website belonging to the Canine Café and Bakery in Charlotte, North Carolina, offers lots of fresh tempting dog treats including a five pound holiday gift basket filled with yummy treats.

Available sizes are four, ten and thirty pound bags.

Depending on size of dog, serve from 1/2 cup to 2 cups (for an 80 pound dog).

Rolls are available in one pound, two pound and five pound packages.

Graduates of TDI's training program include everything from pure bred Pitbulls to mutts from the local pound.

A typical bulk order of mulch is a 1,000 pound box.

Magik Mulch offers shipments of 1,000 pound boxes.

Picks By the Pound - A novel idea is in place at this website where you can buy picks by the pound.

The deal that is advertised is a quarter pound of picks (approximately 250 picks) for around $25.00.

Pucrhasing beef this way is economical, often costing far less per pound than buying specific cuts of meat throughout the year.

Interested in growing a 1,000 pound pumpkin?

It takes approximately 200 beans to make one pound of chocolate.

Sterling refers to the British Pound and is the same currency that is used in the UK.

Be aware that if you live in the United States, you will pay more than the stated prices because the dollar is worth less than the British pound.

Pound the chicken breasts with a meat mallet until they are flat.

Just add a pound of your favorite meat, vegetable, or even tofu, and a few minutes later the curry is ready for the table.

Prized Darjeeling teas can cost as much as $1,500 per pound.

One pound of loose tea will brew up to 200 cups of hot or ice tea.

Local Harvest, a site which specializes in natural and locally sourced foods, sells honeybee pollen granules in 8 ounce, one pound, and two pound bags.

Consider that it is estimated to take about 1/3 pound of chemicals to conventionally produce the cotton in one t-shirt.

The company's beef is sold by the pound; currently at about $2.40 per pound.

This means that an 80 pound calf grows into a 1,400 pound cow in just over a year.

It is difficult to feed a family with meat that costs $7.00 a pound.

Black Krim - A medium sized slicing tomato that produces half pound fruits.

The plants produce tomatoes that average up to one pound each.

The ottoman has a 350 pound weight capacity.

Refrigerator thawing requires some advanced planning, as it may take at least 24 hours to thaw the meat for every pound of weight.

It will take about 30 minutes per pound of meat when thawing in cold water.

If you can't purchase weights, lift cans of soup or one pound bags of beans.

The saying goes that an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

It doesn't even weigh a full pound even though it's dual-ocular.

Hold your bow at the ready, wait for him to pound the ground, then fire.

Since it's release earlier this year, Guild Wars has seen nothing short of success in the shadow of Blizzard's eight-hundred pound gorilla, The World of Warcraft.

Donkey Konga is a great game where players pound on bongos just like the big monkey himself.

This 8 foot 2 inch, 550 pound beast did not have a fatality in the original Mortal Kombat, and with the exception of a fireball, his signature moves were merely extensions of his agility, speed, and incredible strength.

You'll have to use ground pound attacks to defeat the mummy.

These in combination with the wide variety of jumping, crouching and standing punches and kicks gave gamers a huge variety of moves and strategies in which to pound their opponents.

To get around it, press L to do a Ground Pound.

You'll use a plethora of weapons, fictitious and real, to pound your enemy into the pavement, or just explode the pavement underneath him.

Whether you prefer to pound around the course with a heavyweight like Bowser or zip around the turns with a lightweight like Yoshi, we've got the Mario-themed race for you.

It is a bit heavy for backpacking at 64 pounds, but with a 400 pound weight capacity it's a great choice for kids as well as adults.

These covers measure about 88 to 96 inches by 33 to 43 inches and weigh from under one pound, to five pounds.

If you are planning to hike a difficult trail that includes climbing a steep mountain, take a day trip and attempt to accomplish the most difficult part of your planned trip with a 40 pound pack on your back.

You will find out quickly that walking five to eight miles a day with a 50 to 80 pound pack is a lot different than walking that amount in tennis shoes and without the pack.

To gain one pound, 3,500 additional calories must be consumed.

They are also able to fold a sheet of paper in half (with supervision), string large beads, manipulate snap toys, play with clay, unwrap small objects, and pound pegs.

Children without liver cirrhosis require about 1-2 grams of protein per pound (2-3 grams per kilogram) of body weight.

Toddlers pound pegs with a plastic hammer or pretend to cut wood with a toy saw.

To select a turkey, plan on about one pound per person.

To thaw a frozen turkey, refrigerate the turkey, planning about six hours per pound for thawing.

Approximate roasting time for a 12 pound turkey is 4 hours, with an additional 15 minutes per pound after that.

If needed, pound the slices of beef to ¼ inch thick.

Weighing in at less than a pound, the lightweight design will not overwhelm already hefty luggage, and the tiny size (the largest dimension of the dryer is less than five inches) can fit in most carryon luggage pieces without a problem.

In fact, British poet Percy Bysshe Shelley once made a boat out of a five pound note.

Use a paper snowflake to decorate an unfrosted bundt or pound cake.

Your baby now weighs about a pound and a half.

He/she is gaining half a pound to a pound per week until week 37.

By week 22, your baby weighs about one pound and his/her taste buds have developed.

By week 30, your baby starts gaining half a pound a week until week 37.

It is seven feet in diameter and weighs less than a pound, being made of washable parachute nylon.

You won't pay $200.00 for a suit, and then ruin it by gaining a pound or two.

Women especially, can take this message to heart and not worry about every single pound and how they look in a swimsuit.

When stacking your piles of sand, don't pound or push.

Pound Puppies were a popular line of stuffed animals produced in the 1980s and released by the Tonka Company.

Pound Puppies were the genius of Mike Bowling, a worker on an automotive assembly line.

Tonka, which traditionally made durable toy trucks, snapped up the Pound Puppies and released the stuffed animal line under their own brand.

This guaranteed the purchaser that they had an authentic Pound Puppy.

Like Cabbage Patch Kids, each Pound Puppy came with an adoption certificate.

Smaller versions of the Pound Puppies were created and some were used as giveaways in kid's meals for various fast food restaurants.

Pound Purries, a line of kittens that could be adopted, were also released.

You can visit the official Pound Puppies website and find out more information, play games, or adopt a new puppy.

Collecting pound puppies today is as much fun as it was for kids twenty-five years ago.

Reviewers also like how durable and sturdy it is, especially for parents whose children love to pound on their toys.

However, that's exactly what happened with Pound Puppies.

That might sound like a lot, but if you consider that there is 300mg of tryptophan in a cup of cottage cheese and 600mg in a pound of turkey, it's pretty clear that it's not tough to get your daily requirement.

Although the "eight pound Oreck" that has become so popular over the years still exists in its classic model, there are many different iterations of the Oreck vacuum cleaner that can satisfy different needs.

It is large enough to cook a five pound chicken on the rotisserie.

With this model, you can cook an eight pound chicken or two four-pound roasts.

An electric roaster sits on your counter top and are available in small sizes perfect for a cooking turkey breasts up to large models that can hold up to a 22 pound turkey.

Most average-sized roasters can accommodate a 20 pound bird, but before you purchase a large turkey, check your roaster oven's operating manual to learn its limitations.

If thawing your turkey in cold water, allow 30 minutes per pound.

Using the microwave to thaw a turkey should be done carefully by unwrapping the turkey and checking the settings on the microwave for the minutes to cook per pound.

It runs over five hours on a one pound cylinder and can either be mounted on a wall or be free standing.

It uses a standard 20 pound propane tank.

If you're wanting strongly scented candles, the maximum I would put into a batch of wax is one ounce liquid fragrance oil to one pound of candle wax.

Most people would like more like a quarter ounce per pound.

A really great tip I found for making consistently colored and correctly dyed candles is to melt a pound of wax as you normally would to make candles, then fill 10 sections of an ice cube tray evenly with wax (you'll have leftover wax).

When these wax cubes have cooled, each one has the perfect amount of coloring to dye one pound of wax.

I usually use one or two tablespoons per pound of wax.

Add one half to one ounce per pound of wax to make your candles look really cool.

The only problem with that is it takes five to eight pounds of berries to make one pound of wax, and using the traditional process to get pure wax it takes several days to prepare the berries to be made into a candle.

Some candle makers use a tablespoon of oil per pound of wax melted, or ¼ of an ounce, or three percent of the candle's weight.

You'll find though that most candle makers don't reveal exactly how much scent per pound of wax they use in their recipes, so the "triple scented" label has become a catch phrase in the industry to refer to highly scented products.

Over six pounds of berries were necessary for a return of only one scant pound of wax, and the process took much longer than creating tallow candles.

For example, you would need over 1,500 pounds of violet flowers to make just 1 pound of violet essential oil.

You can generally use up to one ounce of fragrance oil per pound of wax.

Learning how to make triple scented candles is as simple as measuring the correct amount of fragrance or essential oils per pound of candle wax you'll be using.

Triple scented candles make more sense if you consider that traditionally, before the super-scented candle craze began, the accepted amount of scent for candle making was 0.5 ounces per pound of wax.

Therefore, a triple scented candle contains 1.5 ounces of fragrance per pound of wax, or 9% saturation.

Select a good quality candle wax that can hold more fragrance per pound than its cheaper counterparts.

Remember, you'll be using about half an ounce of fragrance oil per pound of candle wax for subtly-scented candles, and a full ounce for stronger scents.

Ideally, a candle should be made with 1 ounce to 1 pound of liquid wax.

A candle can have up to 1 1/2 ounces of oil per pound of liquid wax, but this won't significantly increase the amount of scent it throws.

When it comes time to add your scent, use about one ounce of citronella essential oil per pound of wax.

Products to sell include one pound boxes of chocolates, peanut brittle, molasses chips, gourmet lollypops and See's chocolate candy bars.

We have a senior nutrition program that provides over 300 seniors a 35 pound box of food each month of the year, educates them on healthy eating habits and provides them with information on where to get additional assistance if required.

I will think of you proudly as I bravely pound the pavement.

Press the pound key to go back to the main menu.

You are likely to pay upwards of 5 dollars per pound depending upon the brand and the amount you purchase.

So you're feeling flirty, but your laptop feels like a seven pound lava rock?

If your children are school aged and the only dictionary you have in the house is a twenty pound unabridged Webster's, it's time to start looking at kids' dictionaries.

Stew small cuts of meat as part of a full recipe in a slow cooker for better flavor, as well as spending less per pound and getting extra meals.

Your family may never know the difference, and at an average cost of $2 per pound, tofu can be a more cost effective option than many ground meats.

Depending on the area of the country where you live, chicken can often go on sale for as low as 59-99-cents per pound.

Purchasing the largest possible bag of food may seem more expensive at first, but larger sizes often have better per pound prices.

For example, one pound of ground beef would only make hamburgers for four people.

In a casserole, however, the same pound of meat could easily feed twice as many people.

Because the majority of Ravel owners live in England or anywhere else near Great Britain, the prices are generally in British Pound Sterling.

A few spoiler sites offer comprehensive lists of upcoming spoilers and they should always be read with a pound of salt.

The Gaiam Reversible Travel Yoga Mat is the lightest yoga mat on the market at one pound.

And the Chinese government seems to be dragging its feet as a frustrated FBI attempts to pound on the door, claiming that piracy is an "internal" problem that they would rather handle themselves.

Despite the reputation of hybrids for sacrificing towing power for fuel efficiency, the Tahoe Hybrid boasts a respectable 6,200 pound towing capacity.

You will use about one tablespoon of herbs or other additives per pound of soap base.

Use powdered herbs at a rate of about one tablespoon of herbs to a pound of soap.

Use a quarter ounce for every one pound of base.

The process is surprisingly involved; a hive of 60,000 bees may need to visit more than two million flowers in order to gather enough nectar to create just one pound of honey.

Pound chicken breasts until they are about ½ inch thick, or thinner, if you can manage.

Generally speaking, it takes ten pounds of protein from grains to produce one pound of protein from meat.

That means to lose one pound of weight you must create that deficit in your diet or burn it up with exercise.

The healthiest way is to lose one pound a week by doing both - each day burn 250 calories through exercise and take in 250 fewer calories.

I started out my pregnancy at 223 pounds, with orders from my obstetrician to keep my weight gain to a minimum or risk having a nine or ten pound baby.

It's a worry I deal with each and every day as I get on the scale and wonder if that one pound I put on is the beginning of another roller coaster ride with my weight.

It isn't safe to lose more than a pound a week, generally.

Or, if you are outside of the home, simply pass on Aunt Millie's pound cake offering.

The truth is, it takes 3,500 extra calories to gain a pound of weight.

Likewise, you have to burn or eat less calories to equal a 3,500 calorie deficit to lose a pound of weight.

Studies estimate that a pound of muscle burns an extra 35 to 50 calories a day.

If it's just a pound or two, there's really no need to worry.

During this time, women gain an average of one pound per year.

A pound roughly equates to 3,500 calories, so if you want to lose a pound per week (a realistic goal), you'll need to cut 3,500 calories from your weekly intake.

Granted, you won't drop 20 lbs in a week or whatever the tabloids promise this week, but a steady pound or two per week for two or three months is bound to show distinct results before long -- and those pounds will actually stay off.

If you stick to an average calorie deficit of 500, that's 3,500 calories a week -- almost a pound of pure lard.