Example sentences for: metallic

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

  • Stern magazine complained that "Foster's airport aesthetic with neon lights and metallic gray" dominates the building's new interior, while Die Welt Sunday attacked its "banality" and its "chilly, almost antiseptic" atmosphere.

  • His new novel, Toward the End of Time , takes place in a futuristic Massachusetts in which nuclear war has leveled half of civilization, strange new metallic animals are threatening to gobble mankind, government has collapsed, and a gangsterish network of uniformed thugs called (chillingly) FedEx is establishing a government network of its own.

  • Similarly, Restoration Hardware calls itself a hardware store and stocks a few items that might legitimately be termed hardware--multiple-head carbine screwdrivers, fold-up pliers, flashlights with old metallic ribbing, etc.

  • A group of five metallic elements which were well known to the ancients and which also have in common symbols that do not resemble the English words for them are lead (Pb), copper (Cu), mercury (Hg), silver (Ag), and gold (Au).

  • The Finnish chemist Gadolin isolated a new earth (metallic oxide) there in 1794 and called it yttria .


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