How to Use hot metal in a Sentence

hot metal

noun
Definition of hot metalnext
  • Grasp a length of red-hot metal that could be fresh from Mount Etna.
    — Mike Klingaman, Baltimore Sun, 11 Nov. 2022
  • Push the vegetables aside to expose a small area of the hot metal and place the tomato paste on it.
    — Washington Post, 16 Sep. 2021
  • Extremely hot metal pieces could fly out of the battery.
    — Jens Meiners, Car and Driver, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Everyone wore work pants, steel-toe shoes and heavy shirts to protect from hot metal.
    — John Pope, NOLA.com, 24 Sep. 2020
  • The first blast of water from the hose hit hot metal, unleashing a wall of steam as flames darted toward the ceiling.
    — Author: Richard Read, Anchorage Daily News, 17 Aug. 2019
  • Just look at them with their screaming hot metal, scalding steam, and polished chrome tubes.
    — Jess Grey, Wired, 11 Oct. 2021
  • The woman who phoned 911 said during the shooting, a hot metal piece landed in her lap, which later turned out to be a bullet.
    — Lisa J. Huriash, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Nov. 2019
  • Rex Forge is a 167-year old plant now involved in the manufacture of hot metal forgings.
    — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 10 Oct. 2020
  • The soft summer sunlight and the shards of hot metal that descended out of the early morning sky seemed hard to reconcile.
    — New York Times, 1 July 2022
  • Perhaps the ignition coil has a tiny insulation fault, or one of the spark plug wires has a crack or split, or is chaffing against sharp or hot metal.
    — Brad Bergholdt, chicagotribune.com, 15 Nov. 2019
  • Even though about half of those cars eventually get recovered, there’s a lot of hot metal left over that ends up on the black market.
    — Fox News, 30 July 2018
  • While some Bedouin breads are baked on hot metal sheets, libba is slapped directly into the embers.
    — Jen Rose Smith, CNN, 4 May 2022
  • The guys working the Linotype machines, (also called hot metal machines) would set the print, casting blocks of metal type to be imprinted on the page.
    — Lois Szymanski, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Sep. 2019
  • One blistering morning, a 55-year-old woman named Lin gripped the hot metal handles of her handcart.
    — Zia Ur-Rehman, The Seattle Times, 31 July 2018
  • The two explosions sent hot metal shrapnel flying upward, curving in long arcs over the remote desert town.
    — Leah Sottile, Longreads, 15 July 2019
  • On-trend copper cookware Copper de-throned rose gold as the hot metal for home decor, and if someone on your list can’t get enough of this decadent metallic look, this is a great gift to give them.
    — Samantha Gordon, USA TODAY, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The Linotype machine was a hot metal line system for typesetting a line at a time instead of the earlier method of putting one letter at a time down for printing.
    — Lyndi McNulty, baltimoresun.com/maryland/carroll, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Minor League Baseball is here again, my friends, and my heart sings with the breezy joy of outdoor leisure and civic pride formed by the sounds of cracking wooden bats and the smells of hot dogs and hamburgers cooking atop hot metal.
    — Joseph Goodman | [email protected], al, 4 May 2021
  • Like hot metal on flesh, Looney Tunes depiction of cattle ranching-ass branding.
    — Vulture, 16 Mar. 2022
  • People may also use hot metal sheets to crystallize the liquid so that it can be inhaled or injected.
    — Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 17 July 2019
  • Iron transfer ladles at Gary Works are used to move hot metal into steelmaking vessels.
    — Isabelle Bousquette, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2022
  • Slow-mo grilling advertisements are always full of roaring flames and meat sizzling against ripping-hot metal.
    — Alex Delany, Bon Appetit, 18 June 2018
  • Pretty much all space heaters have built-in safety features these days like auto cutoff switches if tipped over, and cooled grates to prevent anyone from putting their hand on hot metal and getting burned.
    — John Thompson, Men's Health, 10 Oct. 2022
  • Meanwhile, fire officials said that last year's Ranch Fire, the largest in California history in terms of area burned, was caused by a spark or fragment of hot metal from a hammer driving a metal stake into the ground.
    — Theresa Waldrop, CNN, 9 June 2019
  • America was built on the sizzle and strength of hot metal being cajoled into railroads, bridges and buildings that connect the nation, all wielded by men like Louisville blacksmith Craig Kaviar, with their sheer brute strength and hammers.
    — Pat McDonogh, courier-journal.com, 18 Mar. 2021
  • Some brands include silicone handle covers or sell them separately to protect your hands from the hot metal handle.
    — Paige Szmodis, Popular Mechanics, 29 July 2019
  • One driver, located in Georgia, also submitted a photo that appears to show cookies baking on hot metal sheets in his cargo truck.
    — Sarah Todd, Quartz, 4 Aug. 2022
  • The process will use plasticine, basically children's modeling clay, as a hot metal surrogate.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 12 Dec. 2019
  • The indictment describes crimes attributed to the gang that include murder, stabbings, kidnappings, and burning off one another’s gang tattoos with flaming logs and hot metal pipes.
    — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 19 Nov. 2021
  • That appendage can pack a serious punch, poking through beekeeping protective wear and reportedly feeling like hot metal driving into your skin, according to the New York Times.
    — Sara Kiley Watson, Outdoor Life, 6 May 2020

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