How to use "metal" in a sentence

There are metal rings in the rock for climbers

I thought it was a rock, but then I realised it was metal

We tried to move onto this strange metal object to get close to him.

There was a big metal thing about six feet tall and five feet round, sitting in the corner.

There was no way forward, but as he was turning back, he saw movements in the distance and the flash of moonlight on metal

On one side of him was a tall building, all its doors and windows covered with metal bars

He ran to a nearby streetlight and pulled some wire from a metal box at its base

Marius watched as Jondrette put a metal bar in the fire and inspected a rope ladder on the table

At this signal, which he had pre-arranged with his friends, three men armed with metal poles rushed into the room

Leblanc was standing by the fire, holding a metal bar above his head.

With those words he threw the metal bar out of the window into the street below.

Below the water a metal door slides open

Zee guided Sala into her pod; the door closed, and she could feel the cool metal attachments touching her face and her body suit

There were just two chairs, a simple metal table, and a very old sofa

The old sofa had been pushed against one wall, but there was no metal table or chairs

Underneath it, metal, rubber, and plastic attachments lay on the surface of her skin

The sun shone on something metal in the drive

'I made some holes in the wooden planks with a metal spike

Moisture had condensed on the metal and then had frozen.

She pulled her blouse out of her slacks and used the tail to protect her hand from the icy metal doorknob

The metal casing of the radio gleamed with a brittle crust of ice

The springs began to sing as if metal fingers were strumming them.

As the room grew warm again, the doorknobs and the radio casing and the other metal objects quickly shed their fragile skins of ice, leaving shallow puddles on furniture and damp spots in the carpet

On the doorknob, on the radio casing, and on other metal objects, moisture began to condense out of the air

A blood-freezing image rose at the back of her mind: the house torn apart by a colossal blast, shrapnel of wood and glass and metal whistling toward her, hundreds of sharp fragments piercing her from head to foot.

It rattled a loose metal fixture on the trash bin, and the restaurant's big sign creaked between its two standards.

The first two clanged through sheet metal, but the third punctured the right front tire.

No torn metal

The corridor terminated in an airtight steel door similar to those found on submarines; the burnished metal glowed softly, and light gleamed off the big round-headed rivets.

My brother lay flat on his stomach across the conveyor line which carried the white-hot pieces of metal up to the hammer

The great metal hammer seemed to drop slowly

But luckily the heat stopped him before he could get his hands on the metal

But now the sounds inside had stopped, and a thin circle of bright metal showed between its top and body.

They listened, knocked on the burnt metal with a rock and, getting no answer, they both decided that the men inside were either unconscious or dead.

It was a walking engine of shining metal.

A kind of arm held a complicated metal case, out of which the Heat-Ray flashed as it killed anyone who was still moving

Their metal bodies shone in the sun as they moved forwards to the guns

Its head flashed and burst into a dozen broken pieces of red flesh and shining metal.

A violent explosion shook the air, and a column of water, steam, mud and broken metal shot far up into the sky

At about seven o'clock last night the Martians came out of the cylinder and, moving around in metal machines, completely destroyed Woking station and the houses around it, and killed around 600 soldiers

It did not use its Heat-Ray, but picked them up one by one and threw them into a large metal box which stuck out behind it.

With these it was taking pieces of metal out of the cylinder and laying them on the earth behind it

When I looked again, the busy building-machine had already put together several of the pieces of metal from inside the cylinder into a shape that was very like its own

They stood now, harmless tripods of shining metal, against the brightness of the rising sun.

There were five metal rods

First of all, the metal rods did not go into their holes

I tried to open it with a piece of metal