virgin metal

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Origin of virgin metal

First recorded in 1660–70

Words nearby virgin metal

Virgin Islands National Park, Virgin Islands of the United States, virginity, virginium, Virgin Mary, virgin metal, Virgin Queen, Virgin River, virgin's-bower, virgin soil, virgin wool

How to use virgin metal in a sentence

The taste of metal cutlery after years of plastic can also taste funny.
His First Day Out Of Jail After 40 Years: Adjusting To Life Outside|Justin Rohrlich|January 3, 2015|DAILY BEAST
In previous decades, hip-hop was something typically preached against, much like rock & roll and heavy metal before it.
Down With the King: Christianity Isn’t Hiding in Rap’s Closet|Stereo Williams|December 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The virgin birth is mentioned in the...what...gasp...Koran?!
Why Muslims Love Jesus Too|Dean Obeidallah|December 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Woods were shredded, the earth trembled and the ground exploded in showers of stone and red-hot metal splinters.
Hitler’s Hail Mary|James A. Warren|December 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Barron Industries Michigan-based company that produces metal castings for various industries.
The 26 Next Hobby Lobbys|Abby Haglage|December 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The Authorised Version has: “And as a mother shall she meet him, and receive him as a wife married of a virgin.”
Solomon and Solomonic Literature|Moncure Daniel Conway
I was thinking of any thing but the Virgin, or the window, or the light; I was thinking of my companion—so fair, and so devout.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846|Various
She fixed her imploring eyes on the Virgin's face and on the saints; but all seemed to her to wear a forbidding look.
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
Were they to be driven out,—driven out this very day, when the Virgin had only just now seemed to promise her help and protection?
Ramona|Helen Hunt Jackson
In the metal of the tenor several coins are visible, one being a Spanish dollar of 1742.
Showell's Dictionary of Birmingham|Thomas T. Harman and Walter Showell