hot lead
Example Sentences
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FBI Director Christopher A. Wray also warned senators this week against big changes, saying a warrant is too cumbersome to get when agents are pursuing a hot lead.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 7, 2023
The skills required to turn hot lead into letters on a Linotype machine or to position a strip of cold type on a grid board were easily transferrable.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 18, 2022
The 28-year-old multi-hyphenate who broke out on social media has let his ear for what’s hot lead his uncharted path in country music, all the way up to his third record “Different Man” out Friday.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
It was the death knell for 19th-century Linotype machines, which cast type in hot lead, and opened a new era of computerized-electronic typesetting at the paper.
From New York Times ● Dec. 30, 2016
I gasped, leaping from the chair where I was sitting as if it were made of hot lead.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
