hot lead
Example Sentences
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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’s a far cry from the days of linotype machines with their letters cast from hot lead when she first started.
From Washington Times • Sep. 10, 2017
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
The use of foul language has been a treasured newsroom custom since the days of hot lead, rewrite men and sob sisters.
From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2015
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
