heavy metal

Example Sentences

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Instead of relying on heavy metal catalysts, the reaction is activated by an LED lamp at ambient temperature.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

When she’s not globetrotting, Stasevska lives in Helsinki with her young daughter and her husband, Lauri Porra — a heavy metal bassist who is also the great-grandson of Sibelius.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026

In the 1970s and 80s, Neil Murray was a heavy metal guitar legend who played bass with some of the biggest rock bands on the planet.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

The heavy metal service door slowly swung open.

From "The Smartest Kid in the Universe" by Chris Grabenstein