polished metal
Example Sentences
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Andrea Stöllner works at a large laboratory table filled with polished metal components.
From Science Daily • Nov. 24, 2025
The Lloyd's building in the City of London, completed in 1986, is another inside-out building, a looming tower finished in polished metal.
From BBC • Dec. 19, 2021
Inspired, he walked into a shop in Mamaroneck, N.Y., and came across a daguerreotype — an early form of photography, made on highly polished metal plates that is almost startling in its hologram-like effect.
From New York Times • Aug. 17, 2021
The polished metal of the second piece contrasts such seemingly corroded entries as Tishan Hsu’s machine-mimicking wood-and-metal “New Portable” and Catherine Czudej’s ceramic panels covered with bismuth crystals.
From Washington Post • Jul. 22, 2021
Over and over, Maria sank the sharp point of the wood-handled engraving tool, called a burin, into the polished metal, carving up tiny curls of shining copper.
From "The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science" by Joyce Sidman
