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Examples of sheet metal in a Sentence
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In addition to paint shop and vehicle assembly equipment, installation is also underway for nearly 4,000 tons of stamping equipment that will produce the sheet metal stampings for Ford’s next electric truck.
—Detroit Free Press, 4 Apr. 2024
The restaurant building at the end of the pier is now home to Broad Street Oyster Company, and the roof is now made of sheet metal.
—Laylan Connelly, Orange County Register, 22 Feb. 2024
That wreck ruined acres of sheet metal, as 23 cars were at least somewhat involved (more than half of the cars in the field of 40).
—Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 20 Feb. 2024
Two lions Holly transported from Miami to Spring Hill, Fla., had no origination paperwork, USDA inspectors said, and one of the lions had been sliced by torn sheet metal during the drive, its enclosure found bloody.
—Maura Judkis, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2023
In addition, the nearby Palomar Medical Center has a central plant that includes diesel engine generators and north of Seguro sits a sheet metal fabrication plant.
—Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2024
Tejano music filled the room where, propped against the front of her table, stood a conspicuous object:
A 4-foot sheet metal cross, gifted by a stranger in the days after Lopez-Galvan, at 43, was killed at Union Station in a spray of bullets at the Chiefs’ Super Bowl rally on Valentine’s Day.
—Eric Adler, Kansas City Star, 29 Mar. 2024
The family resettled just over a mile away, in a makeshift structure of cinder block, concrete and sheet metal at the end of a winding dirt road.
—Sufian Taha, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2024
More notable damage was observed into Greene County, specifically at the base where a hangar had sheet metal ripped off.
—Chad Murphy, The Enquirer, 29 Feb. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1852, in the meaning defined above
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“Sheet metal.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sheet%20metal. Accessed 23 May. 2024.
Kids Definition
sheet metal
noun
: metal in the form of a sheet
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