Metal in a sentence as a noun

Maybe one of those numbers where the blade and the shank are forged from a single piece of metal?

Which is unintuitive when you are handling razor sharp pieces of metal.

He entered the metal detector before me, and was waved along.

It is a replacement for pieces of paper or shiny metal with doodles of George Washington stamped on them.

The sparks off the metal roof, the movement of the actual channel, even the rate at which it discharges is apparent.

Metal in a sentence as a verb

However, the fire did not start spontaneously - it was caused by the driver hitting a large piece of metal debris in the road.

I've actually worked at Google and been certified to use all of the shops including welding and metalworking.

You're never going to build a rocket to the moon by starting in your backyard with some sheet metal - your lifespan isn't long enough if you take that approach.

We cannot put software on the kind of assembly line/stamping process we can with say door hinges or other metal works that used to require a skilled blacksmith.

I still do it when called for but my true love is in low level protocols, embedded programming, hardware, and anything else that let's me get to the "bare metal".

Metal in a sentence as an adjective

" But given that, I don't know whether it's an iOS app or a Windows binary or web site or an e-mail list or a metal detector or a buy-some-food-and-send-half-to-my-friend shopping service.

Actually I worked as a synthetic organic chemist in a previous life and I was always much more afraid of the chronic systemic poisons than the things that blew up. It's one thing to have something go boom in your fume hood and quite another to get a drop of something on your glove that you don't even notice and then later that week all your hair starts falling out and everything tastes like metal.

When all the artwork was finally in place, they'd go and produce a photographic negative of the final page, and then using something like lithography burn the image to a metal sheet which was then used on a press to produce the final page.

Metal definitions

noun

any of several chemical elements that are usually shiny solids that conduct heat or electricity and can be formed into sheets etc.

noun

a mixture containing two or more metallic elements or metallic and nonmetallic elements usually fused together or dissolving into each other when molten; "brass is an alloy of zinc and copper"

See also: alloy

verb

cover with metal

adjective

containing or made of or resembling or characteristic of a metal; "a metallic compound"; "metallic luster"; "the strange metallic note of the meadow lark, suggesting the clash of vibrant blades"- Ambrose Bierce

See also: metallic