metal

Charity Earthwatch Europe says trained citizen scientists have found potentially harmful levels of metal or metalloid at 52 freshwater sites across Corby.

From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026

When the knife fell flat across the basket, the robot’s hands had difficulty grabbing the thin piece of metal.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026

On Friday, thousands of security personnel were deployed in parts of the city, with yellow-coloured metal barricades put up at key intersections.

From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026

Working inside a refrigerated metal chamber, she carefully adjusts a mounted tumor, roughly the size of a pinkie fingernail, toward a sharp cutting blade.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 15, 2026

Then, one day, giant Malambruno, a wizard, came riding a wooden horse and turned Antonomasia into a bronze monkey and Clavijo into a crocodile of an unknown metal.

From "Adventures of Don Quixote" by Argentina Palacios

While silver could stay volatile in the short term, Yates said Global X ETFs increasingly sees precious metals as an “interesting opportunity” for 2027.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 17, 2026

Experts have also ruled out West Nile virus and heavy metals as factors that could have contributed to her death.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 15, 2026

Work will then shift to searching for evidence, including magnetic metals, on the Taraia Peninsula on Wednesday.

From BBC ● Oct. 12, 2026

A researcher at Mississippi State University is using mathematical models to investigate how common metals influence the buildup of proteins associated with Alzheimer's and whether potential treatments could interfere with this process.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 11, 2026

In Plato’s allegory of the metals, the philosopher classifies men into groups of gold, silver, and lead.

From "Long Walk to Freedom" by Nelson Mandela

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

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 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

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

Canadian lines are neither metalled nor ballasted with much solidity; and with only one car to steady it the huge machine appeared to leap over each inequality of the track.

From The Mistress of Bonaventure by Harold Bindloss

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

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

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 John Masefield

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

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

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates

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