metal

“Scabbards for Type 30 bayonets were made of bamboo, and bamboo tubes were given in place of the standard metal canteens.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

Not exactly what you want to hear while inside a winged, enclosed metal tube traveling at 530 miles per hour, 35,000 feet above the ground.

From Salon ● Sep. 18, 2026

As much as Anthrax were driven this time by the desire to attract new fans, they were also motivated by many popular new metal albums — and not in a good way.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 17, 2026

Thomas had been scanning with a metal detector for two years, having seen people doing in on television.

From BBC ● Sep. 17, 2026

Bright sunlight filled the hallway from an intricate metal window at the end.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

Find insight on precious metals futures, Wacker Chemie, Carnaby and more in the latest Market Talks covering Basic Materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

That’s the idea that investors will shift out of currencies and into precious metals or bitcoin as governments’ spending and debt keep rising.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026

Yes, really, heavy metals in very small quantities can be fine in food.

From Slate ● Sep. 14, 2026

In reality, the Section 232 program is resulting in a significant investment in America’s metals industry.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026

The sound metals every part of him, turns him cold inside.

From "The Boy Who Dared" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Coutu/Los Angeles and Jeanne Saddler/Washington, with other U.S. bureaus Frozen in bronze, the black infantrymen trudge forever forward, their rifles scraping the metaled sky.

From Time Magazine Archive

The hard soles of his shoes rapped loudly on the metaled road like a giant clock, and he made himself think about time, about his great hoard, the luxury of an unspent fortune.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan

It was bounded by a low wooden fence, which screened it off from a broad, modern, new metaled road.

From Beyond the City by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The road that came out of the pines, formerly deeply rutted and sandy, was now metaled and approached the house in a graded curve.

From The Tyranny of Weakness by Paul Stahr

The metaled turnpikes would dwindle and end in clay roads.

From The Code of the Mountains by Charles Neville Buck

The Captain's Road, which links two droving inns, Tibbie Shiel's and Tushielaw, was one of the earliest metalled roads connecting the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys.

From BBC ● Jun. 2, 2022

Today we talk about capital cities and forums, as well as structures such as amphitheatres, basilicas, metalled roads, pavements and multi-storey apartment blocks because of the idea of the city that Rome bequeathed us.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 15, 2016

Down in the depths of the holloway, you could see neither metalled roads nor telegraph poles, nor even the most distant glimpses of the outsized golf balls of the early warning radar up on Fylingdales.

From The Guardian ● Jul. 19, 2013

In the backwater districts which Henry administered, servants took the place of the "water supply, sanitation, metalled roads, mechanical transport and shops of Western communities."

From Time Magazine Archive

A good metalled road, on which there is a tonga service, runs northwards from Dera Ismail Khán to Bannu.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie

The hand he had been holding behind him came to the front, clutching a stone snatched up from the metaling of the pike as he ran.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

There was a purring of wheels in the air and the staccato clatter of a horse's hoofs on the hard metaling of the pike.

From The Quickening by E. M. Ashe

It is not now recognisable as a road, but the steep banks at each side of it, and some bluish metalling in the shell holes, show that one once ran there.

From The Old Front Line by John Masefield

We whipped through St. Jean de Luz, sang through Bidart, and hobbled over a fearful stretch of metalling into Bayonne….

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates

Added to these machines was one of Blake's stone-crushers to break stone of various gauges for metalling the roads of the town.

From Prisoners Their Own Warders A Record of the Convict Prison at Singapore in the Straits Settlements Established 1825 by John Frederick Adolphus McNair

The terrier, he knew, had crossed the road, and there was something about this particular reach of metalling that tempted motorists to pass at the deuce of a pace.

From Anthony Lyveden by Dornford Yates

Roads.—The alignment of good roads in the plains of the Panjáb is easy, and the deposits of calcareous nodules or kankar often found near the surface furnish good metalling material.

From The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie