loose metal
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The sounds that might have been made by men hanging on in some submerged air pocket were probably only the grinding of loose metal swinging in the long Atlantic swells.
From Time Magazine Archive
He asked to borrow Etta Mae Hartke's ladder so that he could fix a loose metal vent on the roof.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the street, in vestibules as well as house parties, they are spectacular, moving like taut silk or loose metal.
From "Jazz" by Toni Morrison
Everywhere he looked there were buckets of loose metal bits, tiny motors, gears, springs, nuts, bolts, and brightly colored tin.
From "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" by Brian Selznick
Each compartment is provided with a loose metal bottom pierced with holes to admit the dust; the true bottom below it has cross-riffles, and above it are bars or gratings to catch the coarser stones.
From To The Gold Coast for Gold, Vol. II A Personal Narrative by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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