Sentence examples for a sheet of gold from inspiring English sources

The second square on Mr. Dunlop's board held a sheet of gold leaf.

I once carefully removed a sheet of gold leaf from a particularly ritzy restaurant's coffee éclair and smoothed it on to the back of my mobile phone.

With the aid of colleagues in Dubna, he managed to get two atoms of ununbium to stick to a sheet of gold.

There was nothing to match the £73m that, according to the New York Times, was paid last week by a New York gallery for a single portrait by Gustav Klimt (which, appropriately enough, looks as if it were hammered out of a sheet of gold).

After laying a sheet of gold leaf on a surface, blow on it to encourage it to lay flat enough to work with.

Sanford Robinson Gifford turned the same terrain into a sheet of beaten gold.

If you made a typo and had to crumple up a piece of paper and rewrite a memo, you would not be expected to pay for that sheet of paper out of your own pocket (even if it were a sheet of solid-gold paper, which is pretty fancy stationery for a memo and which would probably jam the fax machine).

To generate SPR, antibodies are affixed to a thin sheet of gold atop a prism.

Bracteates were produced by first carving the design in relief on some resistant material, such as bronze or wood, and then pressing a thin sheet of gold over the carving.

And the old man carefully pulled a fine sheet of gold from the tin, he held it up to the streetlight and then, turning to the apprentice, he winked.

When Rutherford shot alpha particles at a wafer-thin sheet of gold foil, a small proportion of the particles bounced right back, a phenomenon that he described as "almost as incredible as if you fired a fifteen-inch shell at a piece of tissue paper and it came back to hit you".