They use it to catch thousand-pound tuna in the Pacific.    From Wordnik.com.  [When the Wind Blows]

They fed the flames like thousand-pound pieces of tinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

I felt like a thousand-pound weight had been lifted off my head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Raymond Carver] Reference

Last time I saw you a thousand-pound fish was dropping on your head.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dick in the Everglades] Reference

There was no sense in making 1-231 in thousand-pound batches before.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

Once she had eaten a thousand-pound banknote on her bread and butter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tart of the Week: Kitty Fisher] Reference

From there, I increased pitch gently to pull the thousand-pound mule into the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

"And for that you might need three more guys, a winch, and a thousand-pound chain.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Homebody]

My friend had just replaced his four thousand-pound Ford with a new MGB convertible.    From Wordnik.com.  [I'll Wait For You] Reference

It was full of money, twenties and fifties bundled up into neat thousand-pound wraps.    From Wordnik.com.  [faceless]

There's no manhandling or manipulating a thousand-pound animal's behavior, after all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Caroline Walker: Wyatt Webb's Horses Will Change Your Life If You Let Them] Reference

After a moment, he stood, moving as though he carried a thousand-pound burden on his back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fat Tuesday]

Despite their size, thousand-pound creatures fell as easily as cattle in the slaughterhouse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Odyssey]

Coca-Cola, the thousand-pound gorilla who sleeps in Atlanta, is the particular punching bag.    From Wordnik.com.  [Glory Days] Reference

Remember when you told me they were dropping three thousand-pound sandbags into the levee last night?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Random Items... Of Doom!] Reference

He dropped the cape from his eyes and saw a handsome thousand-pound bull on the other side of the barrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mexico]

A thousand-pound battering-ram with forty men to swing it could have shattered the barrier no more completely.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Adventurer]

Cruise missiles, with their thousand-pound warheads, were not powerful enough to penetrate the steel and concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Room] Reference

Kit Bellew landed through the madness of the Dyea beach, congested with thousand-pound outfits of thousands of men.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE TASTE OF THE MEAT] Reference

She flexed her arms, and cranes swung thousand-pound loads, drawbridges opened, and floodwalls moved on electric motors.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2008 » February : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

The floor was shaking, again, because B-52s were dropping, again, loads of thousand-pound bombs on distant Taliban positions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Meals] Reference

Overhead, a B-52 circled before dropping another payload of thousand-pound bombs on Taliban positions in neat rows of twelve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Meals] Reference

On his 60th birthday, he swam from the notorious Alcatraz island prison to San Francisco while handcuffed, towing a thousand-pound boat.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Robbins: The Real Jack LaLanne] Reference

"You didn't expect a thousand-pound note, did you?".    From Wordnik.com.  [Rivers of Ice] Reference

I feel as if a thousand-pound weight was taken off my back.    From Wordnik.com.  [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference

The water that goes into a thousand-pound steer could float a destroyer.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Ye shall cease to count your thousand-pound scalps, the noble of you shall cease!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference

And he showed the captain the thousand-pound note which he had found in Becky's pocketbook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thackeray] Reference

"California is the thousand-pound gorilla when it comes to laws of this sort," Korten said.    From Wordnik.com.  [WTOP / Business / Biz Stories] Reference

I do believe that you sometimes think the patchwork quilt is made of thousand-pound bank-notes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures] Reference

Relieve me of that dog, and I toss you a thousand-pound note, and thank you from my soul, Cumnock.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Ormont and His Aminta — Complete] Reference

"Speaking about carrying a thousand-pound bear puts me in mind of something," cried Randy quickly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rover Boys on a Hunt or The Mysterious House in the Woods] Reference

D'ye know that a thousand-pound casting dropped on our roof and smashed it and wrecked two offices?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Hawkins' Humorous Adventures] Reference