nickel

Sterling silver jewellery does not typically contain nickel but it is found in some cheaper items.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

"Waste stored since the communist era or produced by current factories contains chromium, nickel and zinc," Mehmeti said.

From Barron's ● Oct. 8, 2026

Oh yes, that extra nickel is before taxes.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

A rise in nickel stocks in London and Shanghai suggests that demand for finished metal is soft, Dhar says.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 23, 2026

Barringer believed that the crater had been formed by a ten-million-ton meteor, heavily freighted with iron and nickel, and it was his confident expectation that he would make a fortune digging it out.

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

Growing up without “two nickels to rub together,” John McKinney never thought he’d be a lawyer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 23, 2026

Going from a bulky commercial hydrogen sensor to a smart device about the size of a stack of three nickels was a technical challenge like that of any consumer-health wearable.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 20, 2026

He also thinks the government savings from not producing pennies will be offset by the need for more nickels, which are worth five cents but cost nearly 14 cents to make.

From BBC ● Oct. 31, 2025

“We don’t take those wooden nickels anymore,” he said.

From Salon ● Oct. 28, 2025

We took the flowers and dropped two nickels and five pennies in Poncho Man’s guitar case.

From "One Crazy Summer" by Rita Williams-Garcia

Marina thought there was inadequate medical oversight, and said the program "nickeled and dimed" her for additional services, like physicians' visits, that she thought would be included.

From Salon ● Feb. 1, 2023

“I can’t think of a worse business – high fixed costs, commodity product, worsening service, alienated customers sick of being nickeled and dimed for every amenity.”

From Reuters ● Sep. 9, 2022

“It does seem people feel they are being nickeled and dimed on paperwork,” Mr. Brown said.

From New York Times ● Nov. 13, 2017

Teams this time of year are good enough to survive being nickeled and dimed for a run every couple innings.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 5, 2017

Covered with genuine Persian Morocco, with rich black leather bellows and nickeled fittings, they bear the impress of the quality that is in them.

From Kodaks and Kodak Supplies 1914 by Canadian Kodak Company

We sat on high stools at the bar while the barman shook the Martinis in a large nickelled shaker.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The place was brightly lighted by a nickelled lamp, though it was scarcely four feet high and the centreboard trunk occupied the middle of it.

From The Protector by Harold Bindloss

It was the bright nickelled handle-bar which had caught his eye.

From The Wolf Patrol A Tale of Baden-Powell's Boy Scouts by John Finnemore

Pressing plates, plates of metal japanned or nickelled, used for giving finish to the leather on a book.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

A noise of light footsteps muffled by a rug, high heels tapping on uncovered floor, the scrape of a drawer pulled out: and she returned to give him a little nickelled electric torch.

From Alias the Lone Wolf by Louis Joseph Vance

“Sometimes it feels like the college is nickeling and diming you,” Kantrowitz said.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 25, 2016

The treatment in hot baths of alkali and cyanide is the method generally employed in American factories as a preliminary to the nickelling of small brass work for sewing machines, etc.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall

One shining in the freshness of new nickelling; the other an old thing of battered tin, with faded gold letters.

From A Top-Floor Idyl by George Van Schaick

Commercial practice in the matter of the composition of nickelling solutions appears to vary a good deal.

From On Laboratory Arts by Richard Threlfall