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Example sentences for "melted down"

  • A foundry once stood at the corner of the Rue Balzac, where public statues of kings and other royalties of old were in turn cast or melted down.

  • I could almost wish to be melted down; but no, that must not be while the old people live.

  • It dreamed that the old people were dead and that it had been taken to the iron foundry to be melted down.

  • If the lamp could not be used for one of these purposes, it would be sent at once to an iron foundry to be melted down.

  • The hatred felt for Domitian caused his images, many of which were of silver and many of gold to be melted down; and from this source large amounts of money were obtained.

  • On one occasion a good many images of Plautianus were made (what happened is worth relating) and Severus, being displeased at their number, melted down some of them.

  • As it was impossible to make so large a vessel of pottery, it was made of silver and remained extant for some time, regarded somewhat in the light of a votive offering, until Hadrian finally set eyes on it and had it melted down.

  • The King sends his Plate to be melted down.

  • Our Lady, St. Lawrence and St. Sebaldus and ordering them to be melted down or sold.

  • The lead is melted down at a low temperature and drossed.

  • The lead is melted down slowly, when the impurities separate in the form of a scum (dross), which is easily removed.

  • It was, as we have said, carried far away from Marbach and sold as old copper; then sent to Bavaria to be melted down in a furnace.

  • It appeared to him that the old people were dead, and that he had been taken to the iron foundry to be melted down.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    about the same period; another small; beautifully printed; connexion with; dearest friend; each country; either flank; extensive plain; false opinion; fancied that; four fathoms; grows naturally; guns and; import slaves; light breeze from the; light color; melted butter; melted down; melted state; recent discoveries; rubber boots; that portion; translation from; under similar