precious metal

noun

1. a metal of the gold, silver, or platinum group.

precious metal

noun

1. any of the metals gold, silver, or platinum

Example Sentences

And yet here you are, looking at a glass of amber liquid that is worth its weight in a precious metal.

From The Daily Beast

And Peter held in his hand the precious metal, with the water and blood still rusted upon it.

From Project Gutenberg

Afterwards, however, I made use of the precious metal in a very practical manner, but of this more hereafter.

From Project Gutenberg

A period cannot be imagined when the precious metal will be exhausted.

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Silver hardly counted in view of the deluge of the more precious metal.

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The same man took a specimen of the precious metal and showed it at San Francisco.

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