metallic

Example Sentences

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The groundbreaking photographer and multimedia artist created a metallic blue photo collage celebrating jazz.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 16, 2026

Researchers are especially interested in Psyche because it may represent the exposed metallic core of an ancient planetesimal, a building block of planets that formed early in the solar system's history.

From Science Daily • May 23, 2026

Suggesting emergence rather than collapse, a winged metal woman rises from a hospital bed, bathed in multicolored light projected across the walls, while translucent metallic fragments dangle overhead.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2026

“There is a chemical, metallic taste to it that makes one think it was created in some renegade CIA lab.”

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

A metallic screech rings in my ears and my stomach rises up into my chest.

From "The Bletchley Riddle" by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin