metal

Evidence of the jewellery workshop discovered in Heneb's excavations showed there was "industry" making use of the rich metal resources in the area, and producing "important commodities for Roman society," he added.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

This is because each molten blade would naturally cool into a solid object consisting of many small grains of metal alloy, all jumbled together.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

One aerial fight is a dazzler with long takes of planes swooping through the clouds accompanied by the teeth-rattling clatter of lightning bolts that crash against your ears like metal trashcan lids.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

Manufacturing added 19,000 jobs, bolstered by gains in computer and electronic product machinery and primary metal manufacturing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

I turn on the metal table lamp and hold my card underneath the bright light.

From "South of Somewhere" by Kalena Miller

Experts in Cardiff will now try to learn as much as they can from the brooches - including how they were made, the types of metals used and where they came from.

From BBC ● Nov. 7, 2026

Shipments declined for eight of the 11 product categories tracked by the national data agency, and exports excluding energy and metals and mineral products were down 5.6% for the month.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Precious metals futures fell as conflicts in the Middle East and Russia-Ukraine push oil prices higher, fueling concerns about inflation and higher interest rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

The programme provides duty-free access to the US market for South African vehicles, the country's second-largest export earner to the United States after precious metals, according to the South African Revenue Service.

From Barron's ● Nov. 2, 2026

There are no Alpine peaks or grinding glaciers, no great deposits of oil or precious metals, not a hint of a pyroclastic flow.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson

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

When it was over, the crowd scattered to their vehicles and the wheels clattered over the metaled roads, but in the burial ground, when all the rest were gone, two figures tarried.

From Destiny by Charles Neville Buck

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 Theodore Dreiser

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

From Laoshan to Lutin, where a metalled road began, was 30 miles, crossed by a track formed at one time by quagmire, at another by slippery boulders.

From World's War Events, Vol. I by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds

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

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

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

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

Nails, felt and labour metalling are subject to a deduction of one-third.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" by Various

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