loose metal
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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
As the road was heavy with mud and covered with patches of loose metal every here and there, those three miles proved the longest I have ever driven.
From The Man from the Clouds by Clouston, J. Storer (Joseph Storer)
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