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It’s hard not to feel some kind of sympathy for Max, who sustained a severe brain injury while he was incarcerated that required surgeons to install a metal plate in his skull.

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

If a furnace stops working, the molten metal will cool and solidify.

From BBC ● Jul. 17, 2026

Their results supported earlier research showing that metal ions are more concentrated at the tips of the jaws than in the central regions.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

He was speaking after workers used a crane to remove the metal gates that had long separated La Linea from Gibraltar.

From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026

The tires on my faithful old bicycle had finally given out and I had joined the hundreds clattering about town on metal wheel rims.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Downstairs, men sort plastics, cardboard, paper, metals and glass into neat piles destined for workshops and factories.

From Barron's ● Jul. 18, 2026

Although the jaws share several traits with familiar metals, they also have mechanical properties that set them apart.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 16, 2026

Anderson splits his time between Japan and Indonesia, and said he was able to retire a few years ago after investing in bitcoin, ether and precious metals.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 16, 2026

The whole periodic chart of elements and metals and all kinds of chemical concoctions found their way into the ground and the groundwater.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 15, 2026

Thus copper sits on top of silver and silver sits on top of gold because of their chemical affinities as metals, while helium, neon, and argon are in a column made up of gases.

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

But here the horses beat a sharp rat-tat with metal shoes on a metaled road, and the rubber-tired wheels ran noiselessly.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville

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 metaled turnpikes would dwindle and end in clay roads.

From The Code of the Mountains by Buck, Charles Neville

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

The astonished animal bounded forward, stumbled on a round stone, and came down on her knees, pitching Evelyn over her head into the dust of the metalled road.

From Captain Desmond, V.C. by Diver, Maud

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.

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 Yates, Dornford

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

From Aliens by McFee, William

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 McNair, John Frederick Adolphus

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

A glance between these natural balusters turned our strip of metalling into a gallery.

From Jonah and Co. by Yates, Dornford