Hemmingwell held out a small metallic-looking cylinder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabotage in Space] Reference

Germanium is a metallic-looking, grayish-white element.    From Wordnik.com.  [Germanium] Reference

~ Arsenic is a steel-gray, metallic-looking substance of density 5.73.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

There are craters within craters on his vaguely metallic-looking carapace.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilium]

~ Antimony is a bluish-white, metallic-looking substance whose density is 6.7.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference

Granted, Benito will find shiny metallic-looking fish-shaped pieces for months to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagojo Diary Entry] Reference

There was a faint sensation of something moving inside the tough, metallic-looking shell.    From Wordnik.com.  [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference

Heeger were experimenting with a metallic-looking film of the inorganic polymer sulphur nitride, (SN) x.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2000 - Information for the Public] Reference

They had just banished from their lives forever that phony, lye-conked, metallic-looking hair, or "the process," as some call it these days.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Autobiography of Malcolm X]

Perhaps their small, metallic-looking bodies and shiny black eyes do not entrance you ... or their brilliant blue tails have lost their appeal.    From Wordnik.com.  [July 8th, 2005] Reference

In 1892 it was discovered that lime and coal fused together in the intense heat of the electric furnace formed a crystalline, metallic-looking substance called calcium carbide.    From Wordnik.com.  [General Science] Reference

Friday morning, a masked and hooded man walked up to a teller at the Capital One Bank in Takoma Park, placed a metallic-looking device with wires sticking out of it on the counter and pulled out a 9mm handgun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robber killed outside Takoma Park bank] Reference

It's just one of those metallic-looking, helium-filled tchotchkes you buy in a gift shop.    From Wordnik.com.  [AltWeeklies.com Site Feed] Reference

The build is mostly plastic (even the metallic-looking trim), but it is reasonably robust.    From Wordnik.com.  [NotebookReview.com - The Webs Best Source For Laptop Notebook Info] Reference

The emerald ash borer is a metallic-looking bug the size of a penny with green wings and a red or purple abdomen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adirondack Daily Enterprise] Reference

The day had been sultry, with a lurid, metallic-looking sky, hanging like a vast galvanic plate over the face of nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rookwood] Reference

Professional 105 ZAF a shiny, metallic-looking handset redefines the luxury mobile phone to create an engineering masterpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [British Blogs] Reference

It has sleek curved edges at the top and bottom, and the silver version we reviewed has an attractive metallic-looking finish.    From Wordnik.com.  [Techworld.com News] Reference

The Oroid men, in street garb, were dressed generally in a short metallic-looking tunic of drab, with a brighter-colored girdle.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl in the Golden Atom] Reference

I set to work and he aided me vigorously, with the result that in a short time we had hidden the bright metallic-looking patch, and then he laid his hand upon my arm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore] Reference

The glance of a serpent could not have produced a greater effect upon her than did the fixed gaze of those awful, metallic-looking eyes that were bent down on her face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1] Reference

He's got a big gold, horned, grinning, metallic-looking mask over his face, completely hiding his features, although little red dots glow in the shadow obscuring his eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Day Is Like Wednesday] Reference

Following along the bottom of the incline they reached his landing place -- a mass of small rocks and pebbles of a different metallic-looking stone than the ground around marking it plainly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl in the Golden Atom] Reference

Faull's prominent, clear-cut features, metallic-looking skin, and general air of bored impassiveness, did not seem greatly to impress the medium, who was accustomed to regard men from a special angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Voyage to Arcturus] Reference

Then followed the capture of beetles in armour of violet, green and gold, a couple of metallic-looking lizards, and a snake that seemed particularly venomous, but proved to be of quite a harmless nature.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fire Island Being the Adventures of Uncertain Naturalists in an Unknown Track] Reference

The professor once more instituted a search in his pockets, and at length produced a small paper packet, which, on being opened, was found to contain about a table-spoonful of green metallic-looking crystals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Flying Fish A Story of Aerial and Submarine Peril and Adventure] Reference

Also atop the brick and on its ends, you see three horizontal glass tubes that appear to contain mercury with wires at both ends, as well as a metallic-looking cylinder with several long wires jammed into the side of the brick-like mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [MAKE Magazine] Reference

It would be hard to mistake a spectracookie for a real cookie—they’re metallic-looking, flat, with regular edges, like a silver dollar, charcoal-colored—but May found a way.    From Wordnik.com.  [STAR] Reference

Look at the discoveries that have been made; look at the wonders brought home; look at that, for instance, "cried the boy, snatching up the piece of pale, yellowish-green, metallic-looking stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rajah of Dah] Reference

There was a tall, gaunt form -- there was the faded ancient apparel -- the lustrous metallic-looking eyes -- its half-opened mouth, exhibiting tusk-like teeth!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 1] Reference

The itude of his task was suddenly apparent as, they had checked in and Dora had lain n in their room to sleep, he stood under the yptus trees, looking at the Pacific, ing seemed so big, a bigger sea, a bigger h, a vaster sky than he had ever seen before, as their plane had come in to land he had iked down and been daunted by the size of the wling, glittering, metallic-looking city d out there below them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Put On By Cunning]