copper

Example Sentences

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It is primarily tasked with repairing and fortifying the city’s more than 210,000 streetlamps — a frequent target of copper wire thieves — and maintaining its network of electrical vehicle charging stations.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 9, 2026

In recent months, wholesale costs for a variety of inputs, including metals like steel, aluminum and copper, and industrial chemicals have been on the rise.

From Barron's • Jun. 8, 2026

"Our raw material, our gold, our copper, goes to other countries... we are experiencing misery."

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

Within hours of carrying the first telegram across the English Channel in 1850, the earliest “submarine telegraph”—27 miles of copper wire wrapped in a rubbery substance called gutta percha—was broken by a fishing trawler.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 4, 2026

In his memory, there were brief glimpses of her—a flash of copper eyes, short curly hair, a birthmark on her shoulder—but they never lingered.

From "Beasts of Prey" by Ayana Gray