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metallic English

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metallic

Something that is metallic is like metal. The bird's call was loud and metallic. Something that is metallic is made of or has metal in it. The object contained metallic particles.

metallic

(= metal) 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 a yarn made partly or entirely of metal a fabric made of a yarn that is partly or entirely of metal

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Simple sentences

Tea, drunk from a new thermos, tastes a little metallic.
The rapid spin of the Earth along with the molten metallic core produces the Earth's magnetic field.
Plutonium has a metallic taste.
Mine eyes gaze at thine metallic chalice.
A metallic note sounded in his voice.
Jupiter does not have a molten metal core; instead, its magnetic field is created by a core of compressed liquid metallic hydrogen.

Movie subtitles

When you hear the metallic click-click, hang on.
It was non-metallic.
Now, what I'm experimenting with is. a sort of coating, a metallic paste. which will, in fact, cut off the force of gravity.
It's got us by the metallic objects in our utility belts.
Distant spectrograph. Metallic, similar to cube. Much greater energy reading.
I am getting readings on small metallic objects, captain.
Part of the metallic structure have practically been vaporized.
Metallic object. Moving quite fast.
Steam locomotives pump out clouds of white smoke under the metallic walkways of the Gare Saint-Lazare.
Complete foolishness, if you ask me. He had some bookcases made, and not those horrible metallic ones, but made out of cherry-wood, and they can hold a lot of books.
I'm picking up metallic debris.
I detected a slight metallic sound so I think you have an artificial hip.
As in the Hemingway's stories I saw a metallic flash in her eyes and her lips tighten with anger.
Semi-metallic.
I'll place this small piece between the exposed wire. and the metallic part of the gun.
Something metallic.
Metallic?
The metallic streaks on the wall.
Are these metallic insects truly the rulers of this planet?
And there clothing- it's a metallic substance, just beautiful.
Metallic, similar to cube.
I thought I saw something metallic flash out there.
That tabletop over there has built-in sensors that reads the metallic impregnations of the cards.
Captain, metallic substance outside the ship.
Now, where's that metallic paper?
It just supports that metallic rattling noise.
Another passage will take you to the metallic stairs that lead you to the top level.
A metallic passage will take me to the stairway that connects with the top level.
He had some bookcases made, and not those horrible metallic ones, but made out of cherry-wood, and they can hold a lot of books.
Metallic ores.
But even here, there are no observable telltale rocky or metallic fragments of the sort that you'd expect from such an impact.
Moreover Venus is a rocky and metallic hydrogen-poor world whereas Jupiter, where Velikovsky imagines it comes from is made of almost nothing but hydrogen.

News and current affairs

The drivers of both the tractor and the metallic-silver luxury car were 45-year-old women, but any similarity between them ended there: the former was a peasant, the latter the wife of a wealthy businessman.
In the past, metallic money provided an inconvenient and unsatisfactory solution to the question of value.
Moreover, metallic money was prone to unpredictable shifts in value with the discovery of new supplies.
For many centuries, even while metallic money circulated, the task of defining units of account - livres tournois, marks, gulden, florins, or dollars - remained a task of the state (or of those with political power).
For more than a decade, the precious metallic component of e-waste has been fueling a polarized international trade in potentially hazardous materials, with defunct electronic products exported to countries where labor is cheap.

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