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Al-Dabba and his sons, donning protective netted hats and wielding metal bee smokers, gently inspect the neat rows of teeming hives.

From Barron's ● Aug. 7, 2026

It would require enormous amounts of metal, including structural steel for habitats, aluminum for machinery, and iron for tools.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

That is the trade: not the metal, but the wafer.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 7, 2026

“Most lockers in America are metal, and they make a huge amount of noise.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 5, 2026

She used a tiny metal spoon to stir the sugar in her tea.

From "The Way to Rio Luna" by Zoraida Cordova

A future supply network could move metals from asteroids to Mars while using propellant produced from asteroid resources.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 7, 2026

The Environment Agency said this is because legacy substances, such as heavy metals from mining, take decades to break down, and some are building up.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2026

June’s rise in exports was buoyed by a nearly 28% increase in precious metals with a rise in gold shipments to the U.K. and higher purchases of Canadian-held gold by foreign residents.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 4, 2026

The problem is in getting enough critical supplies, such as metals, fertilizer and computer chips — and getting them on time.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 3, 2026

There was no reason to believe that he gave it one hundredth the importance of the structure of metals, for which he took great delight in making soap-bubble models.

From "Double Helix" by James D. Watson

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

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 Buck, Charles Neville

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 Hervey, Harry

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

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 Third, suddenly without the assistance of his anti-grav, crashed into the fence and dropped leadenly to the metalled surface.

From Evil Out of Onzar by Ganes, Mark

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.

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.

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

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 Yates, Dornford

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 Yates, Dornford

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

The first rise of sandy yellow loam showed the normal Gold Coast metalling of iron-stone and quartz-gravel, thinly spread with water-rounded pebbles.

From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir