Example sentences for: metallic

How can you use “metallic” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Opposed to that is the lethal weapon style, which usually involves a fierce high heel, often skinny and slanted in an odd direction, like a half-open switchblade, with fastenings for the shoe that run to grim metallic buckles or very toothy zippers.

  • (In the latter, his deep voice sounded great with a German accent, at once oily and metallic.)

  • The hero Perseus, somehow conceived in that metallic torrent, accidentally felled his grandfather Acrisius with a discus.

  • Another metal, tin—for which the Phoenicians used to sail as far from Tyre and Sidon to the mines on the coast of Cornwall nearly three millennia ago—bears a Latin symbol short for another metallic substance: Sn, for stannum , a Roman-era amalgam of silver and lead.

  • Anthony Quinn performs the syrtaki dance (in fact, an amalgam of several different traditional dances) to the sound of the bouzouki, a stringed-guitar instrument that produces melodic, slightly metallic sounds.


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