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Examples of hot metal in a Sentence
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Inside your air fryer, a large fan sits above a hot metal coil, blowing air upwards and around the machine.
—Maxwell Zeff / Gizmodo, Quartz, 1 Apr. 2024
Two prevailing theories currently seek to explain Io’s volcanic activity: The moon contains either a global ocean of liquid magma or a hot metal core, scientists say.
—Christian Thorsberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
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At Dhamaka, an Indian restaurant in Essex Market, on the Lower East Side, my dining companions and I took turns dragging our spoons through a hot metal pot of gurda kapoora, searching for offal.
—Hannah Goldfield, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2023
Such a hammer developed to cut hot metal is called, appropriately, a hot cut.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 7 June 2023
Sparks and hot metal particles shouldn’t fly anywhere near sawdust, papers, clothing, combustible fuels, or any materials.
—Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 30 Mar. 2023
The rooms smell of glue and hot metal.
—Elana Scherr, Car and Driver, 11 Mar. 2023
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
Like hot metal on flesh, Looney Tunes depiction of cattle ranching-ass branding.
—Vulture, 16 Mar. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1958, in the meaning defined above
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“Hot metal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hot%20metal. Accessed 16 Jun. 2024.
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