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[met-l] / ˈmɛt l /


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Her heavy metal performances trumped nine other finalists, including magician acts, canine performers and even a robot dance crew.

From BBC Sep. 24, 2026

Gold was flat in early Asian trade, staying under $4,300 a troy ounce as a rebound in oil prices and Treasury yields overnight pressured the precious metal.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 24, 2026

Jess Douek, the lead singer of alternative metal band Mallavora, lives with chronic pain caused by fibromyalgia.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

The 6th Street Bridge in Los Angeles epitomizes the problem with rampant metal theft.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 22, 2026

She used a tiny metal spoon to stir the sugar in her tea.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

The metals and mining billionaire denied this characterisation of him.

From BBC Sep. 23, 2026

Like the others who had been detained, the young man, in his 20s, is an artisanal miner, eking out a living searching for precious metals at mine sites.

From BBC Sep. 22, 2026

However, market upheavals like this are exactly when independent traders who shift oil, natural gas and metals around the world and are willing to take the risks get to reap giant profits.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 17, 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

“Here, take the metals to that far oven yonder and wait for me.”

From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw

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 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

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

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 Harry Hervey

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

There are in the Panjáb over 2000 miles of metalled, and above 20,000 miles of unmetalled roads.

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

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

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

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

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

In places the metalling broke through, making holes similar to holes in thick ice, with well-defined margin.

From Military Reminiscences of the Civil War, Volume 2 November 1863-June 1865 by Jacob Dolson Cox

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 Sir Richard Francis Burton

A few inches more metalling, perhaps, another generation of menders, and so on.

From Aliens by William McFee




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