heavy metal

Example Sentences

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Instead of relying on heavy metal catalysts, the reaction is activated by an LED lamp at ambient temperature.

From Science Daily • Mar. 14, 2026

Singer Robbie Williams will lead a tribute to heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne as he is honoured with a Lifetime Achievement award at The Brit Awards.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 2026

The instrument also paved the way to an aesthetics of electricity—feedback, distortion, fuzz, sheer volume—that led to such genres as heavy metal, punk, grunge and shoegaze.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

In addition to clothing that protects against the wind and cold, anyone attempting to climb steep terrain covered in snow and ice should have mountaineering boots, heavy metal crampons and an ice ax.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

Like the sound a heavy metal object, say a refrigerator, might make if it were slowly being pushed across ceramic tile.

From "City of the Plague God" by Sarwat Chadda