metal
Example Sentences
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If you go heavy metal, you gotta cut the sleeves off a black shirt — not blue.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 11, 2026
Filled with my furniture, with paintings and posters leaning against its corrugated metal walls, it looked like the house in microcosm, as if I had moved, under duress, to a shipping container.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026
His oversized objects, made from wood, metal and plastic, have cost him about £2,500 so far, and taken up to two weeks to make.
From BBC • Apr. 9, 2026
But it is also rich in gold and diamonds as well as bauxite and coltan, a mineral that contains a metal used in mobile phones, laptops and other electronics.
From Barron's • Apr. 9, 2026
Callaway stopped in front of an impressive-looking metal door and held his hand up to a sensor on the wall.
From "Glitch" by Laura Martin
Vocabulary lists containing metal
"Hitching a Ride"
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Chemistry - Introductory
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Black and Gray
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