Example sentences for: metallic

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

  • Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band outfits and Janis Joplin's feathery ensembles and George Clinton's outsize rabbit-and-fox fur coat and David Bowie's metallic clown suit and Madonna's peach-colored conical bras and Beck's cream cotton Nehru getup and Tori Amos' (Tori Amos'?)

  • Khallad says he put the box cutter alongside tubes of toothpaste and shaving cream with metallic exteriors, so that if the metal detector at the airport was triggered, the inspector would attribute the alarm to the other items.

  • For example, on a Vladimir Horowitz piano solo, the keys sounded clangy, a bit metallic, on the Bose; they were warmer, but no less hammered, on the Cambridge.

  • 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.

  • Beginning in the 17 th century, hard money and soft money came to refer to metallic money and paper money, respectively.


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