tip the scales at
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The largest males often tip the scales at more than 540kg.
From BBC • Oct. 1, 2025
But football was his best sport, and he was so small as a freshman that he hid ankle weights under his jeans to tip the scales at 112 pounds.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 8, 2025
A Cadillac Escalade, for instance, now weighs over 6,200 pounds, and the latest model of the Ford F-150, the most popular vehicle in America, can tip the scales at almost 5,700 pounds.
From Slate • Feb. 6, 2024
Some, like the Coros Vertix 2, the Garmin Fenix 7X, and the Suunto 7 tip the scales at 50–51mm.
From The Verge • Sep. 7, 2022
The minimum weight of our birds when matured is about fourteen pounds per pair, while the very heaviest will tip the scales at twenty-two pounds.
From Natural and Artificial Duck Culture by Rankin, James
