chrome steel
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chrome steel
First recorded in 1875–80
Example Sentences
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While the chrome steel ball I had gotten for it felt wonderful to the touch, the surface required a little breaking in to get it to track properly.
From The Verge • Mar. 9, 2022
Metallic luster looks like a shiny metal such as chrome, steel, silver, or gold.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
He began making his own, reusable pitons, out of chrome steel, and before long he was selling them to friends and strangers, at a dollar-fifty a pop.
From The New Yorker • Sep. 12, 2016
He could point to the fact that British sanctions have already cut Rhodesia's main exports 90% �including sugar, tobacco, copper, chrome, steel and meat.
From Time Magazine Archive
Twenty' children were grouped in a circle round a chrome steel tower.
From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley
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