Examples of chrome in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web: Noun My boss went across to Radio Shack and picked up a little Sanyo CD/cassette stereo, with a body made of pinewood with silver and chrome finishing details. — Niko Stratis, SPIN, 19 Jan. 2022 There was just a long hill and a row of homes whose chrome fences glittered in the pre-dawn moonlight. — Devin Kelly, Longreads, 19 Jan. 2022 This teaser image shows a thin taillight and chrome window trim, door handles, and wheels. — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 18 Jan. 2022 Fox previously matched her husband-to-be in a chrome manicure from Nails of LA, which complemented her new diamond and emerald engagement ring, designed by Kelly. — Glenn Garner, PEOPLE.com, 17 Jan. 2022 My tester also wears gleaming chrome trim and badging on the hood. — Jeremy Taylor, Robb Report, 12 Jan. 2022 The breathtaking Cannes Film Fest winner Titane got our attention due to how its camera lingers over automobiles, along with the sci-fi concept of melding a human body with chrome. — Ars Staff, Ars Technica, 30 Dec. 2021 My review bike arrived in a lustrous Blue Slate Metallic paint scheme (+$500) with chrome pipes, a bright engine finish, black forks and spoked black wheels. — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 28 Dec. 2021 Without exterior paintwork, leather or chrome, the concept car looks suitably futuristic and could launch in 2040, according to a news statement. — CNN, 28 Dec. 2021 Recent Examples on the Web: Verb An extensive restoration was undertaken in 1968, and the car was finally handed down to the owner’s children in 2016, who commissioned a repaint in black, with accents that include copper brake drums and chrome accessories. — Robert Ross, Robb Report, 2 Aug. 2021 The Tracker red and chrome 'Chopper' style bicycle is up for auction through East Bristol Auctions, and is expected to sell for between £20,000 and £30,000. — Annie Goldsmith, Town & Country, 14 July 2021 The new Lariat sport appearance package matches the Lariat model's bumpers, mirrors, and grille with the exterior color and equips chrome exhaust tips and black running boards. — Connor Hoffman, Car and Driver, 8 Mar. 2021 After all, the two GT trims already share a distinct mesh grille design, chrome dual exhaust tips, and a unique flat-bottom steering wheel. — Eric Stafford, Car and Driver, 30 June 2020 Red-carpet moment: Zendaya in a fuchsia Tom Ford chromed breastplate with matching jersey evening skirt at the Critics’ Choice Awards in January. — Ray A. Smith, WSJ, 22 Jan. 2020 The team is planning to wear maroon pants, jerseys and chrome gold helmets. — Andy Greder, Twin Cities, 7 Nov. 2019 In another scene, Taylor and Combs are chromed out in their Karl Kani matching sets. — Nandi Howard, Essence, 5 Aug. 2019 Use these eye and lip crayons as pops of color for eyeliner, smokey eyes, chromed out lips, or a full monochromatic look! — Marci Robin, Allure, 5 Oct. 2018

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History and Etymology for chrome

Noun

borrowed from French chrôme, borrowed from Greek chrôma "color" — more at -chrome

Note: Name introduced by the French chemist Louis Nicolas Vauquelin (1763-1829) in "Du plomb rouge de Sibérie, et expériences sur le nouveau métal qu'il contient," Journal des mines, Messidor, An V [vol. 6, June-July, 1797], pp. 737-60. Vauquelin notes that a word meaning "color"—originally suggested to him by the mineralogist René-Just Haüy—is fitting for the metal not because it has a distinctive color itself, but because the combinations into which it enters with oxygen (as a green oxide and red acid) are remarkable for their colors.

Verb

Noun combining form or adjective combining form

borrowed from Greek -chrōmos "having a color (of the kind specified by the initial element)," adjective derivative of chrōmat-, chrôma "skin, complexion, color," from chrō- (the base of an s-stem *chrowos-, whence chrṓs "surface of the body, skin, flesh, complexion, color," of obscure origin) + -ma, resultative noun suffix

Note: The form *chrowos- is reconstructed on the basis of Mycenaean a-ko-ro-we-e "without spots" (or "of one color"). While chrṓs can be contracted directly from a nominative *chrowṓs, the Homeric accusative chróa, genitive chroós assume *chrowós-a, *chrowos-ós, with hyphaeresis of the second vowel of the stem.

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