metallic

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Recent Examples of metallic And chiffon nails, metallic manicures, and gem details dominated our social media feeds. Morgan Fargo, Vogue, 13 June 2026 Then, in a pre-dawn operation, the laborers draped the scaffolding in tarpaulin, before removing the giant metallic letters. Frank Langfitt, NPR, 13 June 2026 Her skirt featured a thigh-high slit in the back, showing off a peep of her metallic pointed-toe stilettos from Aquazzura. Lara Walsh, InStyle, 13 June 2026 The beauty mogul accessorized with silver metallic strappy heels. Charna Flam, PEOPLE, 11 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for metallic
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Adjective
  • On shrill winter nights, Moscow’s power is conspicuous, its Orthodox cathedrals and Stalinist high-rises illuminated, though the view falls dim in the autumn and spring, shrouded in sheets of greige.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 3 Apr. 2026
  • The chaos is still an acceptable price to pay for Birney’s expertly offputting performance, a shrill mania that gets increasingly comic over time.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 26 Mar. 2026
Adjective
  • Let the brush drip dry, then return it into its squeaky clean home.
    Mary Catherine McAnnally Scott, Southern Living, 3 June 2026
  • In one scene, Anne calls Ginny, trying to get Mark Brett’s phone number from the bottom of one of Gino’s squeaky ducks.
    Jane LaCroix, PEOPLE, 29 May 2026
Adjective
  • Football coverage can also often be dominated by ex-players, bluntly exchanging unnecessarily strident views.
    Sebastian Stafford-Bloor, New York Times, 16 June 2026
  • In a strident, aggressive veto message by Andrew Johnson.
    David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Adjective
  • And that's especially true in a big, raucous, diverse, argumentative democracy like the United States of America.
    Sara Tenenbaum, CBS News, 18 June 2026
  • Guy, whose fastball has reached 91 mph and sits in the high 80s, was pumped up to pitch as the raucous, standing-room only crowd electrified the ballpark’s atmosphere.
    Richard Dunn, Oc Register, 18 June 2026
Adjective
  • As things got crazier with our heroes and the Supes, things became more dissonant.
    Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 12 June 2026
  • That question is at the crux of Irish filmmaker John Carney’s sixth sometimes magical, at times tonally dissonant solo directorial feature.
    Randy Myers, Mercury News, 3 June 2026
Adjective
  • The election follows Hockensmith's decision to step away from the board due to clashing personalities and policy choices.
    Virginia Barreda, Des Moines Register, 3 June 2026
  • The clashing magnetic fields of a white dwarf star and its neighboring red dwarf star are the source of signals from space that have remained a puzzle for over 20 years, radio astronomers in Australia have found.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 June 2026
Adjective
  • When the pair appeared on the debate stage in Atlanta, Biden alarmed Democrats as he, with a raspy voice, stumbled through many of his answers, often lost his train of thought and struggled to communicate his positions.
    Kaia Hubbard, CBS News, 28 May 2026
  • The prize, which was auctioned off by Odenkirk, who assumed the role of a hypeman in a top hat and spoke in a raspy voice, included an autographed script of the highest bidder’s favorite episode and an invitation to a live reading of the show for up to three guests.
    Charlie Vargas, Daily News, 8 May 2026
Adjective
  • This doesn’t discredit the fact that mental and physical changes from menopause can be disorienting and jarring.
    Helen Carefoot, Flow Space, 17 June 2026
  • That show is so unforgivingly edited down to jarring, staccato setup-punchline interactions that the interactions never feel conversational or informative.
    Tasha Robinson, Vulture, 16 June 2026

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“Metallic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/metallic. Accessed 21 Jun. 2026.

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