Metallic

//ˈmɛʈælɪk//

"Metallic" in a Sentence (15 examples)

Those huge metallic boxes you see in the ship are called by the name of containers.

Plutonium has a metallic taste.

Tea, drunk from a new thermos, tastes a little metallic.

The metallic gate to what seemed to be another universe became the paragon of postmodern Shinto.

Mine eyes gaze at thine metallic chalice.

The thing the Time Traveller held in his hand was a glittering metallic framework, scarcely larger than a small clock, and very delicately made. There was ivory in it, and some transparent crystalline substance.

The rapid spin of the Earth along with the liquid, hot metallic core causes a magnetic field to surround the Earth.

The rapid spin of the Earth along with the molten metallic core produces the Earth's magnetic field.

A metallic note sounded in his voice.

Layla could smell that metallic iron smell of blood.

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[…] and, lo ! a palace towering ſeems, / With Parian pillars and metallic beams.

These chemical distinctions then, to which we have referred, are quite independent of physical condition. For instance, amongst the most metallic of the metals is a gas.

Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) has introduced a bill to address power outages caused by metallic film balloons when they come into contact with powerlines.

No sooner had these syllables passed my lips, than—as if a shield of brass had indeed, at the moment, fallen heavily upon a floor of silver—I became aware of a distinct, hollow, metallic and clangorous, yet apparently muffled reverberation.

As Robert Clergerie, whose unisex Popée shoe comes in an array of pastels and eye-popping metallics, explained the attraction, “It gives manhood to women.”

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