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It is now being held by the Bank of England, where the precious metal can be traded more easily "in a crisis situation".

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

At the time of the collision, it was carrying 4,200 tons of rolled sheet metal and rebar, the authorities said.

From Barron's ● Sep. 2, 2026

Across the lot in an unused patch of pavement, pops of bright orange and yellow reach skyward toward the imposing barbed wire that’s laced atop metal security bars.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 2, 2026

Gather up all the boxes of silver, take them to a dealer to be melted down into some form of liquid scrap metal and walk away with a cash windfall.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 1, 2026

We were herded along a corridor and through the heavy metal door where I had last seen Harry de Vries.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom

Cars and batteries and plastics and metals and other things were incinerated, and a toxic plume traveled for miles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2026

Their attention turned to metal nitrides, compounds formed when metals combine with nitrogen.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 30, 2026

Construction materials such as steel, aluminium as well as lumber wood have had tariffs in place before the latest escalation, though Canada has now matched US rates on the metals at 50%.

From BBC ● Aug. 29, 2026

Precious metals miner Hochschild Mining gains over 3% while Endeavour Mining is up 2.3%.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 28, 2026

British purchasing agents roved about the country, buying food and cloth and metals and chemicals.

From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck

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

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

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

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

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 road, straight, level, muddy where it was not metalled, metalled where it was not muddy, was lost in grey vapour to the front of us.

From Through East Anglia in a Motor Car by J. E. (James Edmund) Vincent

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

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

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

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

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

From Jonah and Co. by Dornford Yates

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