Example sentences for: metallic

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

  • Overlapping frames are one of several gimmicks the ad maker uses to get around the fact that the spot was shot not on film but on videotape, which tends to look flat, metallic, too much like the local ads for discount stores and used-car lots.

  • 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.

  • Since silver spoons sometimes lend a metallic taste to caviar, Mitchell sells spoons made of mother-of-pearl for as little as $25 a pair (or you can save your money and use plastic).

  • 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.

  • The earliest and most magnificent item in the current show is a bright salmon-pink English lady's ensemble from 1708, made of silk damask brocaded in bold patterns with multicolored silk floss and metallic thread.


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