Sentence examples for silver sheets from inspiring English sources

Although silver sheets had been used to overlay wood and other metals since ancient Greece, an 18th-century technique of fusing thin silver sheets to copper brought silver goods called Sheffield plate within the reach of most people.

Then, she will set them aside for a while before returning to cover them in silver sheets.

Overhead, three searchlight beams met, forming a soft halo of haze, through which the rain fell in silver sheets.

So is the crown worn by the princess, made from thinly hammered silver sheets, with a design of phoenix-type birds among cut-out foliage.

The piece's effect of dazzling opulence actually involves quick, simple procedures, such as the creasing and crimping of three cut-out, overlaid silver sheets to represent an elaborately feathered tail.

Sterling silver sheets with a composition of Ag: 92.5 w%; Cu: 7.5 w% and dimensions of 100 mm × 200 mm × 1.0 mm were purchased at Schöne Metals Corporation.

The thin silver sheet required for the new coins needed to be beaten out from its cast state, and this in turn necessitated annealing (strengthening by slow cooling) to prevent cracking.

Many Greek and Roman silver coins were plated; an envelope of silver sheet was soldered on a copper core, and it is by no means certain that all such specimens were the work of counterfeiters, since solid silver and plated coins sometimes appear to have been struck from the same dies.

The helmet is an example of a three-piece Roman ceremonial cavalry helmet, made of sheet iron covered with silver sheet and partly decorated with gold leaf.

Cut two 1-inch (2.5-cm) diameter discs from 20-gauge (0.8 mm) sterling silver sheet.

Cut two more 1-inch (2.5-cm) diameter discs from 26-gauge (0.4 mm) sterling silver sheet.