chrome

“Let’s be honest, reimagining and changing an old airplane, it would be like putting chrome wheels in a Honda Civic from the late ‘70s,” Aimer said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

More than 600 people work at the site, which manufactures about 400,000 tonnes of tin, chrome and coated steels for the packaging industry every year.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2026

The Black Badge specification features a dark-anodized grille and hood figurine in the place of chrome brightwork—younger, fresher, more nocturnal, but also nicely understated, which I like.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

A few additions are purely Adams including some of the photos she took and had framed and a set of modern chrome cat bowls.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 4, 2026

It always looked freshly washed and waxed, its chrome grille polished.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

As it ought to be, the interior is spectacular, with traditional eyeball vents and chromed organ-pull dampers sharing space with discretely deployed digital displays and other modern conveniences.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 4, 2026

One half was chromed, the other stainless steel.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

They also incorporate approximations of architectural forms in miniature ranging from cylindrical brick smokestacks to a chromed arch mimicking St. Louis’s famed Gateway Arch, a monument to westward expansion designed by Eero Saarinen.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2022

Fernández’s show features four 2019 works from her “Dark Earth” series, chromed metal panels inscribed with horizontal lines and sketched with mountain scenes rendered in multiple media, notably chunky charcoal.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 23, 2021

Cross-dye drab, 5 lb. soda crystals and 80 lb. salt, work at the boil for an hour, then lift, wash well and dry; this can be chromed if desired.

From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech

After migrating to the United States as a teenager, Rodriguez so wanted to work at a chroming facility that he started by cleaning bathrooms and delivering parts.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

Platers will have to switch to less toxic — and less shiny, and more expensive — chroming material, something Rodriguez doesn’t think his peers and customers will embrace.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

Gonzalez explained that the steel is far cheaper than chroming, but few customers ask for it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 10, 2023

When all the stripping, chroming, raking, molding, metal flaking and polishing are done, a chopper, righteously gleaming from fishtail exhaust to brakeless front wheel, may have cost its owner $5,000 in materials and labor.

From Time Magazine Archive

By chroming a darker and faster olive is got.

From The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student by Franklin Beech