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metal

[met-l] / ˈmɛt l /


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The metal has now plummeted 50% from its January record of $115.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

The firm designed a sandy-hued building with metal downspouts and horizontal sunshades made of weathered steel.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 12, 2026

A small crowd of people gathered behind a cordon of metal barricades and police tape, some of them in their pyjamas.

From Barron's Jul. 12, 2026

Now, researchers at Tulane University have uncovered an important reason why the precious metal remains so resistant to tarnishing.

From Science Daily Jul. 12, 2026

In the barn, Father is stroking Belle as the farrier pounds metal into her hoof.

From "Will’s Race for Home" by Jewell Parker Rhodes

Gold settled 1.6% higher and silver rose nearly 2%, with both metals snapping a two-session losing streak.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 15, 2026

The renewed clashes between the U.S. and Iran also rippled through precious metals.

From The Wall Street Journal Jul. 13, 2026

MarketWatch Picks: I want to retire in 6 months, but much of my money is in precious metals.

From MarketWatch Jul. 10, 2026

Gallium already stands out from most metals in several ways.

From Science Daily Jul. 9, 2026

Then I would need to arrange for accurate measurement of both the divalent metals and the DNA content.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

The metaled turnpikes would dwindle and end in clay roads.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville

That he would be until they returned to metaled roads and electric-tramways; then the lover, with the lover's message to deliver....

From Caravans By Night A Romance of India by Hervey, Harry

He rode about the city those days behind a team of spirited bays, whose glossy hides and metaled harness bespoke the watchful care of hostler and coachman.

From The Financier, a novel by Dreiser, Theodore

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

Down she came, almost turning a somersault with the violence of her impetus, and Professor Scattergood, hurled far out of his saddle, fell prone with a terrific shock on the newly metalled road.

From All Men are Ghosts by Jacks, L. P. (Lawrence Pearsall)

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 Ashe, E. M.

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 Ashe, E. M.

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 Masefield, John

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 Yates, Dornford

He swung off into the darkness, and a minute later Anthony heard his steps upon the metalling of the London road.

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford

The first rise of sandy yellow loam showed the normal Gold Coast metalling of iron-stone and quartz-gravel, thinly spread with water-rounded pebbles.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

It is the best ground of all, especially where the yellow or brown sands are overlaid by hard gravel, or by a natural metalling of trap and other stones.

From The Land of Midian — Volume 2 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir




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