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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

A single crystal or grain of metal alloy forms during this process of gradual, delicate solidification.

From BBC ● Nov. 6, 2026

The “body armor” in his possession was a metal plate that he planned to use for an art project, his defense attorney said in court records.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2026

So did the truck’s debut event: Musk asked his head of design to throw a metal ball at the vehicle’s supposedly armored window, which infamously cracked instead.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 6, 2026

Betsie and I had to push a heavy handcart to a railroad siding where we unloaded large metal plates from a boxcar and wheeled them to a receiving gate at the factory.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

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

Find insight on precious metals, German chemical firms, Posco Holdings and more in the latest Market Talks covering basic materials.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026

An increase in buying of Canadian-held unwrought gold by Americans drove a sharp rise in precious metals exports, and more than made up for lower shipments of gold to the U.K.

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

As the man leaned close, Tyrion's fingers slid under-neath his chain of many metals, grabbed, pulled.

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

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 Charles Neville Buck

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

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

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 is no railway in the district, and only 29 m. of metalled road.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 2 "Demijohn" to "Destructor" by Various

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

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

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

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

From Aliens by William McFee

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 John Frederick Adolphus McNair

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 Dornford Yates